Cultural Diversity
These are the three major religions practiced in Southwest Asia.
What are Islam, Christianity, and Judaism?
People have inhabited the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years for this reason.
What is fertile soil that allows for agriculture?
In this type of government, power is held by one person or a small group.
What is an authoritarian government?
Control of Gaza and the West Bank passed to Israel after this conflict.
What is the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 (6 Day War)?
Most people in Southwest Asia are part of this ethnic group.
What is Arab?
This is the only valuable resource for many countries in Southwest Asia.
What is oil?
Historical conflicts, ongoing violence, and cultural and ethnic differences make this difficult to maintain in Southwest Asia.
What is democracy?
This is one of many barriers to peace in Israel.
What are competing claims to the land, ethnic and religious differences, war, terrorism, and popular uprisings?
Although Sunnis, Shias, and other sects of Islam disagree about the interpretation of the Qur'an, they all have this in common.
What is faith in the Qur'an and the Five Pillars of Islam?
What is a market economic system?
This nation has the highest level of democracy in Southwest Asia.
What is Israel?
Although it ended a violent and abusive regime, Saddam Hussein's removal from power also resulted in this.
What is his death, U.S. occupation until 2011, religious violence, terrorist attacks, political instability?
This is one of only four nations in Southwest Asia that does not have an Arab majority.
What is Turkey, Israel, Iran, or Cyprus?
Countries tend to specialize their economies for this reason.
What are limited natural resources or comparative advantage?
Iran is one of the few nations on Earth that has this type of government system.
What is a theocracy?
This group took advantage of war, political and social instability, religious fundamentalism, and the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops to gain power and territory in Syria and Iraq after 2010.
What is ISIS (Islamic State)?
This is the likely effect of improved technologies on ethnic and religious diversity.
What is cultural diffusion?
This is an example of a technology that allows people to live in places that were unliveable previously.
What is desalination?
Due to ongoing civil wars, ethnic conflict, economic and healthcare crises these two nations are considered failed states.
Although both Syria and Yemen's civil wars began as a result of Arab Spring protests and their aftermath, Yemen's conflict differs in one of these two major ways.
What is initial success of calls for democracy and a total blockade of goods and people into or out of the country?