Economics
The most important economic resource in the Middle East
What is Oil?
This is a person who flees their country to escape violence or persecution.
What is a refugee?
This is a process where salt water is turned into drinkable water
What is desalination
This is the main language of the Middle East
What is Arabic
This desert is the largest in the world, and translates to desert in arabic
What is the Sahara
The chokepoint that most of the trade from the Middle East to Europe goes through.
What is the Suez Canal?
The Kurds and Palestinian people are considered to be this vocab word.
What is a stateless nation?
lack of reliable rain and this contribute to desertification.
What is overgrazing
These are the 3 main religions found in the Middle East
What are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
This river is the longest in the world, running more than 4000 miles in length
What is the Nile
This organization is responsible for 80 percent of the world's oil reserve
What is OPEC
The Israel-Palestine conflict basically boils down to this
What is a land dispute?
This is a main reason as to why water is scarce in the Middle East
These open air markets are an important part of life in many middle eastern cities
What are bazaars
What is Liberia and Ethiopia
Poor countries in the Middle East often lack this resource
What is oil?
This can be a push factor for a refugee
The Egyptian government created this in order to make the Nile's yearly floods more consistent
What is the Aswan High Dam
This city is an important cite for the main religions of the region, as well as a source of conflict.
What is Jerusalem
This event allowed European countries to receive resources from Africa, as well as create colonies for different countries to control
What is the Berlin Conference
Most of the oil from the Middle East has to go through this chokepoint
What is the Straight of Hormuz?
This will most likely happen if no solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is reached.
What is they will keep fighting?
This is an advantage to having a border on a coastline
This is an effect that Islam has had on the modern world and also something that stresses out many Freshman across Lakeridge High
What is Algebra
This was a system of racial segregation in South Africa that was fought against by leaders such as Nelson Mandela
What was Apartheid