Map Skills
North, East, South, West
What are the cardinal directions?
Jerusalem
Which city in Israel is important to all 3 monotheistic religions in the Middle East?
Supply and Demand
What is a market economy based on?
The ancient homeland for Jew's
What is Zion?
The separation of powers
What is a main difference between presidential and parliamentary democratic governments?
Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
What are the intermediate directions?
The Mediterranean and the Black Sea
What two seas touch Turkey?
Democracy meaning...
What is the rule of the people?
These are three reasons for war
What are land, power, natural resources, borders, defense, religion?
Islamic life if often based on following this.
What is Sharia Law?
In relation to something else
What are relative directions?
Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Azerbaijan
What countries help make up Kurdistan?
"Countries" usually don't have the same currency
Why is an exchange rate necessary for international trade?
Saddam Hussein
WMD
Terrorist Training Camps
Why did the US led coalition invade Iraq?
This is a government based on religion
What is a theocracy?
Latitude and Longitude
What is absolute location?
I am the "middle child" of the three life giving siblings that run through Southwest Asia.
What is the Euphrates River?
Traditional economies are types of economies that rely on this.
What are Customs?
Remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait
Protect Oil
What were the stated goals for the Persian Gulf War?
Parliamentary before but now presidential.
What is the Turkish government?
How dry I am, how dry I am, no body knows, how dry I am... This is a geographic reason for aridness in many areas in the world
What is the rain shadow effect?
I was the true beginning beginning for the prophet
What is Medina?
I am the "sparkling" industry for Israel even though my beginnings lie elsewhere.
What is the diamond industry?
After the Ottoman Empire fell, I was split between Arabs and Jews.
What happened to Palestine?
This is a central government whose citizens only elect the members of the legislature (full name needed)
What is a unitary parliamentary democratic government?