Pollitical
United States and SW Asia and N Africa have what kind of relationship
Have an interdependent relationship
U.S. buys oil from SW Asia and N Africa and what do those countries buy from America
American Food and farm products
What geographic factors leads to humans to settle
Access to Arable land
Three Major Religions
Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Arable
Land that is good for farming
Unlimited Government are a problem because. . . .?
They do not provide sufficient protection for individual rights.
OPEC
Oil
Protelum
Exporting
Countries
A group of countries to control how much oil and the price to sell the oil for.
Conflict between Israel-Palestine can be describe as
Mostly about land, borders and national identity
The Silk Road was used for . . . . .and promoted what?
Trade - Promoted the spread of religion, language and customs
Scarcity
Few and/or not enough
Israel Government
Parliamentary Democracy
What is one thing that the Middle East lacks (or has very little of)
Water
United States consider the most important waterway?
Persian Gulf
Name two things that the Islam behaviors in their relgion.
1 pray x5 a day
Give to the poor
Desalination means
Removing deposits of salt for drinking water
Most countries in the SW Asia region and N Africa governments are . . . . .
UNLIMITED
Jerusalem is consider that __________ City.
Holy
Saudi Arabia produces
Natural Oil, a natural resources
Worshippers of which faith migrated throughout Southwest Asia and North Africa for centuries and finally received a homeland in 1948?
Judaism
Suez Canal is an important water way. Why?
It helps trading with shorter routes.
In an Unlimited Government who has all the control.
The Government
A natural resource means. . . .
It comes the earth and NOT man made
Why do most people live by the Nile River for two reasons.
Water Resources
Remainder is the Desert
South West Asia and North Africa are known as what region?
The Middle East
Fertile Crescent
A curved area in the Middle East where farming is good and land great for farming/crops