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19 Cards in this Set
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Oil and Water |
Major Resources for South West Asia |
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Tigris and Euphrates |
Major rivers of S.W. Asia, and makeup ancient Mesopotamia |
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Jordan River |
Flows from Goldan Heights to the Dead Sea, and is drying because of irrigation |
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Dead Sea |
Land locked salt lake, Jordan River flows into, and it is being drained |
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Muhammed |
Prophet that wrote the Koran, and he started Islam |
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Islam |
means "surrender to Allah" and its a religion started by Muhammed |
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Jerusalem |
Holy City for Christianity, Islam, and Judaism |
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Lebanon |
Divided by religous and ethnic groups and they have a lot of conflicts |
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Syria |
Massive Civil war |
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Palestinian |
People that originally lived where Israel was created they were upset when Israel was created so they turned to terrorism after they lost the war. |
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Iraq |
Shi'ites in East, Kurds in the North, Sunni in West, multicultrial and they have a lot of conflicts |
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Iran |
Persian: speak "Farsi", does not like U.S. and they want an automic bomb, but U.S. have deal with them to not make one, they also have a Theocracy. |
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Afghanistan |
Cross roads: connecting Europe to China, U.S. has been there since 2001, U.S. longest war |
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Sunni |
Muslim majority group |
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Shi'ite |
Muslim minority group located in Iran and Eastern Iraq |
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Kurds |
Located in Northern Syria, and Easter Turkey. They want their own country. |
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Persia |
Ancient empire |
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Taliban |
U.S. is fighting the in Afghanistan |
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5 Pillars of Islam |
Faith Pray 5 times a day Fast during Ramadan Give to the Poor Go to Mecca one in your life |
