Unit 6 Middle East

Question 1

Afghanistan has what that affects its trade?

Answer 1

It’s LandLocked

Question 2

Who did we invade after 9/11?

Answer 2

Afghanistan

Question 3

Israel geography can let them trade with who?

Answer 3

Along Meteranian sea and Red Sea, can trade with Europe and North Africa, south/east Asia

Question 4

What are the 3 monolithic religions in Israel?

Answer 4

Islam- Muhammad, Koran

Jews

Muslims

Christianity?

Question 5

Jerusalem, why is it important to the 3 monolithic religions?

Answer 5

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)

Question 6

What is OPEC?

Answer 6

Organization of petroleum exporting countries (most in Middle East)

Controls production of oil & price of gas

Question 7

Most major cities are close to what?

Answer 7

Rivers and oil pipe lines

Question 8

industry in major cities are…?

Answer 8

When oil pipelines converge

Question 9

Mostly every country in the Middle East is..

Answer 9

Theocracy (forces religion)

Mainly dictatorship

Question 10

Main physical geography of Middle East?

How did they overcame it?

Answer 10

Desert

3 Ways they get water
Drip irrigation
Damning rivers
Decaliation

Question 11

Conflict between Palestinians and Israelites

Answer 11

Both claim the holy land

Both don’t want to give up Jerusalem

Palestinian want to live in their homeland (Jerusalem)

Question 12

Why does many Middle East country’s have tension with Israel

Answer 12

Created through UN and backed by United States and British

Sees them as apart of Us and UK culture and don’t welcome them

Question 13

Difference between Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts against US

Answer 13

Afghanistan- due to 9/11

Iraq- Leader having weapons when not allowed to and us reacting to that from info

Question 14

Land between Tigris and Uffadus rivers

Answer 14

Run parallel in Iraq and in between you see very fertile land and farming

Question 15

Middle East countries with education have more…

Answer 15

Higher rankings (human development index HDI)

Question 16

What to look for to know if a country has a high Human Development Index

Answer 16

Infant Mortality

Literacy rates

Percent of population that lives in the urban areas

Life expectancy

Industry they work in (mainly services)

Question 17

What does the 3 monolithic religions have in common?

Answer 17

Don’t all obey the Pope

Don’t all have a prohibitive against alcohol

Have basic moral codes

Question 18

Why is the US more involved with the Middle East compared to other country’s?

Answer 18

Needs the oil and resources

Question 19

Women in the Middle East are..

Answer 19

Treated unfair

Don’t have equal rights

Cannot go to school

Dress code

MALE DOMINATED SOCIETY

Question 20

Irrigated effected the Jordan river how?

Answer 20

Causes it to shrink

Question 21

Kazakhstan Uzbekistan have a high…

But

Answer 21

Literacy rate but they have an awful economy

Question 22

Why is the Kazakhstan’s economy poor when they can read and write?

Answer 22

Use to be apart of the Soviet Union, taught them how to read and write

LandLocked

Question 23

Where have a lot of Palestinians refugees fled to?

Why that country?

Answer 23

Jordan

Close to Israel?

Question 24

Were do Palestinian live in the region?

Answer 24

Golan heights

Gaza Strip

West Bank

ISREAL HAS TAKEN ALOT OF LAND

Question 25

Why do they take land away from the Palestinian?

Answer 25

Terroist Attack, Isreal gets the land

Question 26

What does Turkey, Egypt, and Pana,a have in common most?

Answer 26

All have strategic water ways Turkey has Dardeanelles Strait Egypt has the Suez Canal Panama has Panama Canal

Question 27

Central Asia, one of the most predominant physical features in that area is..

Answer 27

Temperate grasslands

Question 28

Main genomic activity happens there in the grasslands..

Answer 28

Farming and flat timber land

Question 29

Iran is popular for being a ...

Answer 29

Theocratic gov (dictatorship)

Question 30

Afghanistan is famous for..

Answer 30

Us invasion after 911

Question 31

What jobs do they have? What do they do when needed higher advanced people?

Answer 31

Lower class jobs Recruits Europe workers

Question 32

Oil is not..

Answer 32

Distributed equally among the Middle East

Question 33

Palestinians resort to terrorism, why?

Answer 33

They don’t have money to fight Isreal Brings attention Lack of ability to face country head on

Question 34

Moderate temperatures, rested in Middle East.. best area is what?

Answer 34

Mediterranean

Question 35

What Isreal was created out of

Answer 35

British controlled, Was called Palestine until Britain renamed it forced them into West Bank

Question 36

3 monolithic religions..

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Arab Spring

Answer 37

Massive revolution in Middle East PRO DEMOCRACY

Question 38

Palestinians to make a peace agreement, they want to absolutely have returned to what?

Answer 38

Homeland , want to rebuild Isreal

Question 39

Difference between Isreal and other Middle East country’s is...

Answer 39

Their gov is democracy

Question 40

Women are unequal to men and have a lack of.. even when they can, women are still...

Answer 40

Status in the work place and everything else in general even when they can, women are still segregated