Oil
abundant resource in the middle east that gives some countries within it extreme wealth and a high HDI rating?
What is Oil?
5 Pillars goes with this religion
What is Islam?
These languages make up romance languages
What are Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese?
Most of the SWANA region is this type of climate
What is Desert?
A series of uprisings in the early 2010s which were promoting democracy?
What is The Arab Spring?
Ban on trade of oil with a particular country
What is an oil embargo?
This city is believed to be a holy city by Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike.
What is Jerusalem?
What is one of the benefits of using a single currency in many EU countries?
It allows people, money, and goods to move freely from country to country.
The shrinking of this sea was the result of Soviet agricultural practices, and has lead directly to hotter summers and colder winters in the area.
What is the Aral Sea?
The Arab Spring began in this country
What is Tunisia?
The name of the organization that regulates most of the world's oil supply
What is OPEC?
Disputes over who should be controlling that land. Fueled by centuries of religious tension.
What are the reasons for conflict in Israel?
Supranational Organization that unites Europe economically and culturally.
What is the European Union?
The longest river in the world
What is The Nile River?
Before the Arab Spring uprisings, most SWANA countries were this kind of government
What is a Dictatorship?
The seaway most important for the trade of oil globally
What is The Persian Gulf?
These three major Christian denominations have shaped the religious landscape of Europe: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and this branch, which originated during the Reformation in the 16th century.
What is Protestantism?
Former country in which a long civil war took place among ethnic groups?
What is Yugoslavia?
This natural disaster threatens SWANA due to tectonic plates
What are Earthquakes?
Tunisia changed from a dictatorship to this type of government after the Arab Spring
What is a democracy?
The nations Saddam Hussein retaliated against during the Persian Gulf War
What are Israel and Saudi Arabia?
Israelis are usually of the _______ faith and Palestinians are ________ .
Jewish, Muslim
An ocean current which originates in the Gulf of Mexico and causes warm water to travel up the east coast of the United States
What is the Gulf Stream?
The term for removing salt and minerals from water to make it drinkable?
What is Desalination?
This country did not switch to democracy, but instead became embroiled in a violent civil war that led to the rise of ISIS/ISIL, and just recently came to a conclusion with the fleeing of the dictator Bashar al-Assad in December of 2024.
What is Syria?