Unit 6 Middle East Flashcards
Afghanistan has what that affects its trade?
It’s LandLocked
Who did we invade after 9/11?
Afghanistan
Israel geography can let them trade with who?
Along Meteranian sea and Red Sea, can trade with Europe and North Africa, south/east Asia
What are the 3 monolithic religions in Israel?
Islam- Muhammad, Koran
Jews
Muslims
Christianity?
Jerusalem, why is it important to the 3 monolithic religions?
Jews- Western Wall (last remaining wall of their destroyed temple)
Muslims- Dome of the rock
Christians- Church of the holy seplecure (were Jesus was sacrificed)
What is OPEC?
Organization of petroleum exporting countries (most in Middle East)
Controls production of oil & price of gas
Most major cities are close to what?
Rivers and oil pipe lines
industry in major cities are…?
When oil pipelines converge
Mostly every country in the Middle East is..
Theocracy (forces religion)
Mainly dictatorship
Main physical geography of Middle East?
How did they overcame it?
Desert
3 Ways they get water
Drip irrigation
Damning rivers
Decaliation
Conflict between Palestinians and Israelites
Both claim the holy land
Both don’t want to give up Jerusalem
Palestinian want to live in their homeland (Jerusalem)
Why does many Middle East country’s have tension with Israel
Created through UN and backed by United States and British
Sees them as apart of Us and UK culture and don’t welcome them
Difference between Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts against US
Afghanistan- due to 9/11
Iraq- Leader having weapons when not allowed to and us reacting to that from info
Land between Tigris and Uffadus rivers
Run parallel in Iraq and in between you see very fertile land and farming
Middle East countries with education have more…
Higher rankings (human development index HDI)
What to look for to know if a country has a high Human Development Index
Infant Mortality
Literacy rates
Percent of population that lives in the urban areas
Life expectancy
Industry they work in (mainly services)
What does the 3 monolithic religions have in common?
Don’t all obey the Pope
Don’t all have a prohibitive against alcohol
Have basic moral codes
Why is the US more involved with the Middle East compared to other country’s?
Needs the oil and resources
Women in the Middle East are..
Treated unfair
Don’t have equal rights
Cannot go to school
Dress code
MALE DOMINATED SOCIETY
Irrigated effected the Jordan river how?
Causes it to shrink
Kazakhstan Uzbekistan have a high…
But
Literacy rate but they have an awful economy
Why is the Kazakhstan’s economy poor when they can read and write?
Use to be apart of the Soviet Union, taught them how to read and write
LandLocked
Where have a lot of Palestinians refugees fled to?
Why that country?
Jordan
Close to Israel?
Were do Palestinian live in the region?
Golan heights
Gaza Strip
West Bank
ISREAL HAS TAKEN ALOT OF LAND
Why do they take land away from the Palestinian?
Terroist Attack, Isreal gets the land
What does Turkey, Egypt, and Pana,a have in common most?
All have strategic water ways
Turkey has Dardeanelles Strait
Egypt has the Suez Canal
Panama has Panama Canal
Central Asia, one of the most predominant physical features in that area is..
Temperate grasslands
Main genomic activity happens there in the grasslands..
Farming and flat timber land
Iran is popular for being a …
Theocratic gov (dictatorship)
Afghanistan is famous for..
Us invasion after 911
What jobs do they have?
What do they do when needed higher advanced people?
Lower class jobs
Recruits Europe workers
Oil is not..
Distributed equally among the Middle East
Palestinians resort to terrorism, why?
They don’t have money to fight Isreal
Brings attention
Lack of ability to face country head on
Moderate temperatures, rested in Middle East.. best area is what?
Mediterranean
What Isreal was created out of
British controlled, Was called Palestine until Britain renamed it forced them into West Bank
3 monolithic religions..
All believe in one god
Only Muslims belive in Mohammad
Jews don’t believe Mohammad was
Christians and Muslims have a specific founder while Jews don’t
Arab Spring
Massive revolution in Middle East
PRO DEMOCRACY
Palestinians to make a peace agreement, they want to absolutely have returned to what?
Homeland , want to rebuild Isreal
Difference between Isreal and other Middle East country’s is…
Their gov is democracy
Women are unequal to men and have a lack of..
even when they can, women are still…
Status in the work place and everything else in general
even when they can, women are still segregated
