Caucasus and Central Asia
Between the Black sea and the Caspian sea
Caucasus region
What desert and the climate is mostly arid.
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Rub-AL-Khali
Many of the people in the region still live a traditional lifestyle as __________ farmers and herders
nomadic
________________ is a major issue in the region due to drought.
Desertification
The ______________conflict centered on the creation of a homeland for Jews in Israel (Palestine)
Arab-Isreal Conflict
The largest country in central asia
Khazacastan
Nonrenewable resources are abundant in the region such as?
Fossil fuels, oil, natural gas
People rely on ____________ to meet their water needs.
aquifers
_____________ (long periods without rain) have led to the struggle for people to survive in the region.
droughts
In 1947, the ________ ________ developed a plan to divide territory into two regions, Arab and Jewish
Untied nations
______________ is actually a saltwater lake that has been shrinking for decades
Aral sea
The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to the?
Mediterranean sea
__________- was one of the earliest known civilizations
Egypt
growing crops to feed themselves and their families
Subsisetence agriculture
________ (terrorist group) was responsible for 9/11 attacks.
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Al-Queda
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the republics declared their ___________.
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Independence
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers which is the location of one of the earliest civilizations in the past is called _____________.
Mesopotamia
Who built cities, organized government, and invested in a writing system to keep records and create literature?
Egyptians
- a policy based on control of one country by another
colonialism
People protesting corrupt, unjust governments led by dictators caused ________ ________
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Arab Spring
is a network of trade routes that linked China and Europe
Silk road
an area in the desert where underground water allows plants to grow throughout the year
oasis
system of writing that used pictures to represent sounds or words
Heiroglyphics
The ________________ is famous national park located in the region
Serengeti
n the 1990s the _____________ genocide (Hutu- attacked Tutsi) and the Ugandan conflict resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
Rwanda Genocide