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The Middle East is the birthplace of which three religions?
What are Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Aside from religion, competing nationalisms is a large contributor in this ongoing conflict that intensified October 27, 2023:
What is the Israel - Palestine conflict
Pre-colonial maps of the Middle East rarely had boundaries or borders, instead they had
What are mapped centers with seat of power and spheres of influence
The difference between the Middle East and Greater Middle East:
What is the Greater Middle East includes parts of North Africa and Afghanistan
A term used in the cultural sense to refer to the worldwide community of Muslims
What is Muslim World
A region where the invention of agriculture led to the early rise of some of the world’s first cities and empires
What is Fertile Crescent
Kurdish people want:
What is statehood
A term used to describe the 22 Arab speaking countries
What is Arab World
Which system contributed development of paternalistic central authorities and allocation states that swell their resources abroad and distribute the proceeds
What is colonialism
People living with dignity and freedom from the consequences of corruption was a goal of what social movement
What is the Arab Spring
This term is used to refer to the total number of the world’s Muslim majority countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe
The tendency for wealth to leave poor countries rather than trickle down from the wealthy to the middle class is known as
What is capital flight
One cause of Sunni militants revolting and targeting Shia:
What is Sunnis being pushed out of the political process
The Western half of North Africa is called
What is Maghreb
The belief that Jews constitute a sovereign people and nation and that they should have the right to establish and maintain a state in their ancestral homeland