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76 Cards in this Set
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What is Algeria's capital???
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Algiers
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What are the three poor mountain countries??
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Ethiopia, Yemen, and Afganistan
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What is Ethiopia's GDP????
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$9,000/capita
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what is Ethiopia's biggest crop??
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coffee
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what is Ethiopia's pop???
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85 million
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What is Ethiopia's capital??
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Addis Ababa
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What is Ethiopia's gov???
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Republic
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The strait of Bab el Mandeb was so desirable why?
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It is the chokepoint between the Red Sea - it is the access to TONS of oil!
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What is Yemen's GDP?
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$2,500/capita
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What are Yemen's main exports?
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Oil, grains, and vegetables
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What is Yemen's pop?
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23million
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What is Yemen's capital?
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Sana'a
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Afganistan has the second highest mt in the world. What is it called and who is hiding there?
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The Hindu Kush and Osama bin Laden is hiding there
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What is Afghanistan's GDP?
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$800/capita
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What is Afghan's pop?
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28 million
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What is Afghan's main exports?
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animal skins and opium(poppies)
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What is Afghan's capital?
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Kabul
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What is Afghan's gov?
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Islam Republic
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What is Yemen's gov
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republic
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Why is the Strait of Hormuz chockpoint so valuable?
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It is the passage between the Persian Gulf which has lots of oil
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Who organized the attack on the US (9-11)?
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Al-Quaeda
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Who is the leader of Al-Quaeda?
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Osama bin Laden
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what does Al-Quaeda mean?
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the base
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what does Taliban mean?
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the student of religion
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What four places did the 9-11 planes hit?
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the Pentagon, the Twin Towers, and possibly the White House but it hit a field in Pensylvania.
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how many people were killed in the 9-11 attack?
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roughly 3,000
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what was the 9-11 attack intended to do? what happened instead?
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crush the American economy, citizens, and government. Instead, we grew stronger and attacked them - and crushed them
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What is Turkey's pop?
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77million
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What is Turkey's GDP?
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$11,000
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Why does Turkey have a cultural split?
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It is partially on Europe
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Who was Ataturk and what did he do?
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He was a military dictator, and he made Turkey a republic, he changed their religion to more westernized by: changing the alphabet from Arabic to Roman, encouraged everyone to go to school and secularized it, and took away the fez and the veil, took away polygamies and arranged marriages, let women get divorce easier and let them vote and hold an office - so he had the side of the women; he tried to get more to follow him, he built roads, and he pulled turkey out of the M.E. alliance, and joined NATO, he became our allies (anti USSR) and changed the calender to christian, and eventually died.
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NATO=
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North American Treaty Organization
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After Ataturk
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everything went back to normal
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What are Turkey's main crops?
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citrus, wheat, grapes, and olives
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What are the two Persian Gulf states?
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Iran and Iraq
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What is Iran's GDP?
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$13,000/capita
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What is Iran's main exports?
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OIL, caviar, and persian rugs
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who was the first country to find oil?
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Iran
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Who was the Shah and what did he do?
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The Shah was a Iranian monarch who tried to do to Iran what Ataturk did to Turkey but it didn't work and he was thrown out of power - he fled to the US where we hid him - in revenge, Iran took US hostages for over a year - we finally got them back, but they embargoed their oil to us so we kicked out the Shah to get it back
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what is Iran's constitution?
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theocracy - so the Koran
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What is Iran's pop?
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66million
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What Persian Gulf state has the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - and the Fertile Crescent?
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Iraq
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What is Iraq's pop??
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30million
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What is Iraq's GDP?
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$3,300
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Bosra=
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where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet
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what % Arab is Iraq?
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80%
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when was the Iraqi war and what happened?
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2003; Hussein(Iraq's leader) was making weapons of mass destruction and we tried to inspect them but they didn't cooperate; we attacked (without UN approval) and they agreed to destroy the weapons
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after the Iraqi War, who did we turn our attention to and what did they do?
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we turned our attention to Libya (Quadhafi) and before we could act, they got rid of their nukes.
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What are quanats?
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underground water tunnels
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What mountain did they think they found Noah's Arc?
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Ararat
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What main crop does Iraq grow?
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dates
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What other name did Istanbul used to be called?
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Constanople
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Where is Mecca?
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Saudi Arabia
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What animals are herded in North Africa?
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sheep, goats, and camels
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What three middle eastern countries have been attacked by the Soviet Union?
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Yemen, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia
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What is the strait that runs between Istanbul?
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Bosporus
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What is the strait that controls the entrance to the Persian Gulf?
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The strait of Hormuz
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What are the mountains in North Africa?
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the Atlas Mountains
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What group formed after the 9-11 attacks?
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Homeland Security
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What country belonged to Saddam Hussein?
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Iraq
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who is NOT Arabs because they speak Persian?
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Iraq
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What mineral is common in the middle east?
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phosphorus
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what mineral does Libya have that can be turned into nuclear weapons?
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plutonium
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what does Afghanistan grow that makes opium?
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poppies
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What is Turkey's capital?
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Ankara
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What is Turkey's climates?
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med, vertical, and desert
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What is Kuwait's GDP?
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$56,000/capita
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What is Qatar's pop?
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200,000
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What is Bahrain's pop?
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400,000
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What are the five pillars?
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1. Accept the will of Allah
2. give to the poor 3. pray 5 times a day facing Mecca 4. fast during Ramadan 5. make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once |
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Who speaks Farsi?
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Iraq
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what happened in the 1980 war?
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USSR attacked Afghanistan
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Who are the two countries that are theocracies?
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Iran and Saudi Arabia
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What are some reasons for the 9-11 attacks?
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The Twin Towers were higher than their Mosque, there are a lot of Jewish people in the US, and they wanted to crush our economy, citizens, and our government
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What did Iatolla do?
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He overthrew the Shah and anti-westernized Iran
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What are the Persian Gulf states?
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Iran Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain
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