Cultural Differences In Europe And South West Asia

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In the world today, we see so many events happening that sometimes we do not know why they occur. In the western side of the world we see people living in more developed countries such as the United States and Europe. As in the eastern side there are countries that are a lower developed countries for example South west Asia and south Asia. To have a comparison between two countries that I will be explaining about are Europe and South West Asia. Those two regions have a lot of differences in their physical geography, how many people live in the region, what type of culture background they have, their differences in geopolitics, and especially where their development rank in the world. The two regions that have famous history and are on the …show more content…
Then WWII in 1939-1945 between Italy, Germany, and later Japan versus England, France, USA and USSR the cause was because of Germans aggression in Europe. Post of WWII new superpower USSR that led to cold war 1939-45 and then end of cold war in 1989. As for South West Asia/ North Africa, pre-WWI there was Ottoman Empire it was a theocracy and then the results of WWI the empire gets broken and becomes Turkey. King Hussein gets Arabian Peninsula from British but it was taken by Ibn-Saud which is Saudi Arabia. France gets Syria and Lebanon and Britain gets Iraq, Jordan and Palestine. As for the development of SW Asia/ N. Africa it is less developed country because of the oil distribution is unevenly. The oil is almost 60 percent in the world and the trade agreement is O.P.E.C. and there is control in the flow of the oil. Their economy is from worse to better meaning that there are countries that make more money from the oil and some not. As for Europe, it is in the more developed country because since the industrial revolution they made machines and controlled the region. Also, since 1990 they been using the Euro Union which makes them a unified

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