Geography
A policy of segregation or discrimination on the grounds of race in South Africa.
What is Apartheid?
One example of this as warlords fight to try and control the profitable diamond mining operations.
What is Blood diamonds or Conflict diamonds?
Dishonest behavior by those in power, typically involving bribery or the exchange of money.
What is corruption?
The number of births per woman in a population and is also a indication in
What is fertility rate?
The belief in one god which is evident in several religion to include: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
What is monotheistic?
The largest desert in the world that stretches from the west coast of across Africa to the Nile River in the east which impacts North Africa population density.
What is Sahara?
The period of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States.
What is the Cold War?
In Russia
Government ownership or production
Decisions by government determine economic activity
Total government involvement
What is Communism/Command?
When the price of a good increase. When production of goods increases, prices will fall.
What is supply and demand?
When multiple diverse groups blend sharing art, religion, language, music, traditions, and holidays
What is cultural diffusion?
Most people in Russia live west of the Ural Mountains because the climate is more favorable and the largest cities are located there. The harsh climate of Eastern Russia deters many from living there. Few people live in the Northern portion because of the Tundra.
What are push and pull factors?
Under Gorbachev leadership, the world's greatest environmental disaster happened here where a nuclear power plant released massive amounts of radioactive material and many people died. This area is still considered unlivable for the next 150 years due to radiation poisoning.
What is Chernobyl, Russia?
I served as South Africa first Black president in a democratic election from 1994 until 1999, won Noble Peace Prize, and leader of National African Congress.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The Middle East has natural resources found in abundance.
What is oil, petroleum, and natural gas?
The fasting growing religion in the world with the largest percentage of Muslims in Saudi Arabia.
What is Islam?
Creating military bases, developing irrigation systems, and building canals to ease trade and travel is considered how human change the land,
What is a modification?
One of the primary trade routes through the Southwest Asia region. An ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and the West. It stretched across the continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa, linking regions from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Silk Road?
Iran limited government has control placed in the hands of the religious majority and its leadership. It has three branches of government, but all are overseen by the Supreme Leader.
What is theocracy?
This organization stabilizes oil prices.
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)?
Language (Arabic)
Religion (Islam, Christianity, Judaism)
Food (Hummus, Falafel, Tabouleh)
Customs (Head Coverings)
Economy (Mixed)
Government (Theocracy, Monarchy, Republic)
Architecture (Mosques, Petra)
Literature (Khaled Hosseini)
Traditions (Hajj, Ramadan)
What is culture?
An economic activity involving the cutting down of trees not common in economic areas.
What is logging?
Most of the large-scale migration that has occurred throughout Southwest Asia has been motivated by...
Examples include the Jewish diaspora and the Syrian refugee crisis.
What is political turmoil or escaping persecution?
The major contributing factors to civil war in Africa.
What is natural resources, land, and government control.
Most countries around the world trade goods with each other by means of international trade agreements.
What is globalization?
What are the 3 major monotheistic religions that are dominant in South West Asia and North Africa?
What is Islam, Christianity, and Judaism?