Cultural Diversity
This is the most common ethnic group in Southwest Asia.
What is Arab?
This region is has been densely populated for nearly all of human history due to its abundance of rich soil and fresh water.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
An authoritarian government exercises this type of power.
What is unlimited?
During this war, Israel gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza, West Bank, and Golan Heights.
What is the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 (Six Day War)?
President of the United States during the Iraq War.
Who is George W. Bush?
These are the three most commonly practiced religions in Southwest Asia.
What are Islam, Judaism, and Christianity?
This natural resource is the chief export of many Southwest Asian nations because of its abundance, value, and the lack of other resources in many areas.
What is oil?
Competing interests, European-drawn borders, and nearly constant conflict has made this difficult to establish and maintain in most of Southwest Asia.
What is democracy?
Competing claims to land, ethnic and religious differences, wars, terrorism, and popular uprisings have been barriers to peace in this country.
What is Israel?
President of Syria.
Who is Bashar al Assad?
While practically all Muslims agree on the 5 Pillars, they would disagree about this.
Oil-rich nations tend to have this kind of economic system.
What is command-leaning?
What is authoritarian?
The US replacement of this country's government in 2003, did not have the hoped-for effect of long-lasting peace and stability.
What is Iraq?
Prime Minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
Who is Golda Meir?
Generally speaking, as technology increases, diversity does this.
What is increase?
Because resources are distributed unevenly and no country has the resources to make everything it needs, countries do this.
What is specialization?
This country's government is one of the only theocracies in the world.
What is Iran?
This group was able to take advantage of the chaotic situations in Iraq and Syria and establish a short-lived caliphate in the region.
What is ISIS?
President of Egypt who promoted pan-Arabism.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nassar?
These countries are the only ones in Southwest Asia that do not have an Arab majority population.
What are Turkiye, Iran, Israel, and Cyprus?
Saudi Arabia leads the world in the development and use of this technology, which allows people to move into areas previously uninhabitable.
What is desalination?
These two countries are considered failed states.
What are Syria and Yemen?
This is the cause of both the Syrian and Yemeni conflicts.
What is the Arab Spring?
Current prime minister of Israel.
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?