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Pop: 66,429,28
About the size of Alaska |
Iran
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Top 2 languages in Iran, and the percentage it makes up
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Persian and Persian dialects ,58%
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Top 2 ethnic groups, and percentage
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Persian 51%
Azeri 24% |
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What is special about the Iranian flag
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Stylized representation of the word Allah
In the shape of a tulip, a symbol of martyrdom |
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somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce a belief
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Martyr
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ALLAH AKBAR
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(God is great) in white Arabic script
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ALLAH AKBAR is repeated how many times on the bottom and top of the Iran flag
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11 on each total of 22
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Top religion in Iraq, and what are the top two branches of that relgion
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Muslin
Top branches are Shi'a and Sunni Shi'a is majority |
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a representative democracy in which the people's elected deputies (representatives), not the people themselves, vote on legislation
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Republic
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a form of government in which a Deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
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Theocracy
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What is theocracy based on
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Based on Sharia law system
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Iran was known as what until 1935
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Persia
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What was Persia changed to and when
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the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979
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When and for how long did Iranian students seize the US embassy
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4 Nov 1979 and held it until 20 Jan 1981
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the highest ranking of a Shi’a cleric
Experts in Islamic studies Jurisprudence Philosophy Ethics |
Ayatollah
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Leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, overthrowing the Shah of Iran
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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determines who is allowed to run for elected office
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Gaurdian Council
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Supreme Leader
(since 4 June 1989 |
Ali Hoseini-Khamenei
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Elected (since 3 August 2005)
Elected for four years by popular vote Head of government Some consider a figurehead |
President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad
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one who is uncompromising in his or her government’s doctrine or policy
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Hardliner
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Musavi's campaign color
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Green
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founded in the aftermath of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution
Defends the regime against internal and external threats Expanded far beyond its original mandat |
Revolutionary Guard
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28,395,716
Slightly smaller than Texas |
Afghanistan
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less than 10 inches of average annual precipitation
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Desert
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16.8 million
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Cario
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4.1 million
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Alexandria
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a stream that flows across a region of a dry climate and derives its water supply up river where a water surplus exists
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Exotic Stream
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Example of an Exotic Stream
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Nile River
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“Garbage City”
One of the poorest neighborhoods in Cairo Home of the Zaballeen |
Manshiyet Naser
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garbage people”
Christian Egyptians (10%) Egypt is mostly Sunni Muslims (90%) Collect and dispose of Cairo's waste One of the few opportunities to make a living |
The Zaballeen
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Began working under contract with building owners to collect and dispose of household waste
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the Wahiya
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At the end of 19th Century, migrated to Cairo
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the Wahiya
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During the 1950s,migrated to Cairo from the rural south
Christian pig breeders Formed a relationship with the Wahiya |
the Zarraba
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The retained access rights to the waste, acting as middlemen
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the Wahiya
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worked as collectors and fed their pigs with the organic portion of the waste
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The Zarraba
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The Zarraba, through the process of collecting and recycling Cairo’s trash, became know as the
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Zaballeen
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Men traditionally used what carts to collect trash from peoples’ homes
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donkey driven carts
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An individual can make selling garbage
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$90 per month
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why are the Zaballeen are scorned by mainstream Egyptian society:
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Christian faith in a predominant Muslim country
Use of pigs (unpopular in Muslim culture) Seen as outsiders |
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In May 2009, Egyptian authorities ordered all the nation’s 300,000 pigs to be slaughtered because of fear of
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Swine Flu
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Counterfeiters used discarded bottles of P&G shampoo, fill w/a cheaper produce and resell
Recycling program gets the bottles off the stree |
Proctor & Gamble recycling school:
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a focused geographic area where important innovations are born and from which they spread
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Cultural hearth
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3400 BC: The opium poppy is cultivated in
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lower Mesopotamia
Modern-day Iraq |
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In the 1500s, the Portuguese, while trading along the East China Sea, began smoking
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opium
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The Chinese considered smoking opium as
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barbaric and subversive
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1st opium war was between
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British and Chinese
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Who won the 1st opium war
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British
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As a result of the first opium war the British gain
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Hong Kong
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Bayer begins production of diacetylmorphine and coins the name
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heroin
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the first US-federal ban on opium
As a result, a thriving black market opens up in New York's Chinatown |
1925
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blamed for the surge in illegal heroin being smuggled into the States
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US involvement in Vietnam
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The US and Mexican governments find a means to eliminate the source of raw opium—by spraying poppy fields with
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Agent Orange
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temporarily replace China White heroin until 1978
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Mexican Mud
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In response to the decrease in availability of Mexican Mud, another source of heroin is found in the
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Golden Crescent:
Afghanistan Pakistan |
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Heroin from Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam moves through shipping ports in China and Indonesia
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The Golden Triangle
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approx 2% of the world’s opium
Major supplier to the US |
Latin America
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Leader of a tribal militia
Head of a border police force in Helmand and Kandahar provinces Area represents 80% of Afghanistan’s opium |
Colonel Abdul Razik
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used to dilute a product
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Cutting agents
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Arabic for veil
Used to describe the headscarves worn by Muslim women Come in a variety of colors |
Hijab
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worn in the West are a square scarf that covers the head and neck but leaves the face clear
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Hijabs
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a veil for the face that leaves the area around the eyes clear and worn with an accompanying headscarf
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Niqab
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a veil that covers the entire face and body, leaving just a mesh screen to see through
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Burka
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a two-piece veil that consists of a close fitting cap, usually made from cotton or polyester, and an accompanying tube-like scarf
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Al-amira
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a long, rectangular scarf popular in the Gulf region that is wrapped around the head and tucked or pinned in place at the shoulders
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Shayla
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a long, cape-like veil that hangs down to just above the waist and covers the hair, neck and shoulders completely, but leaves the face clear
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Khimar
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worn by many Iranian women when outside the house, is a full-body cloak that is often accompanied by a smaller headscarf underneath
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Chador
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First woman to wear a hijab in the danish parliament
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Asmaa Abdol Hamidis
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First women elected to parliament in Kuwait—caused controversy by not wearing veils
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Aseel Al Awadhi
Rola Dashti |
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physical objects made and used by members of a cultural group
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Material Culture
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a specific culture is justified by the social practice of that time and place
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Relativism
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certain characteristics among cultures hold truths for all times and places
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Universalism
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