Exam 8: North Africa and Southwest Asia

Drip irrigation mixed with fertilizers is called __________.

In Saudi Arabia,the mutawa'een (religious police)have the authority to arrest people for morally offensive actions.

The resource that this realm supplies to the core economic regions of the world is the energy to fuel their economies and maintain their high standard of living.

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 favored a Palestinian homeland.

Christianity,Judaism,and Islam all acknowledge __________ as a founding patriarch.

The Arabian Peninsula is a desert environment surrounded by saltwater bodies.

The physical area of this realm is divided into three regions: ___________,___________,and the countries of ___________.

When the United States invaded in 2003,Saddam Hussein was contracting billions of dollars worth of projects to oil companies in France,Russia,and China.

In Saudi Arabia __________ are banned.

Most people in the realm are more dependent on the availability of ___________ than on the availability of ___________.

After a series of wars and considerable negotiations,the central problems remain: Jews and Palestinians both want the same land,both groups want Jerusalem to be their capital city,and neither group can find a compromise.

Palestinians living in __________ can only rely on outside support to survive.

Islam first united the many traditional groups of Arabia with __________ and then with the __________.

Describe Lebanon's unique parliamentary democratic system devised to relieve some of the tension between the various cultural-political factions.

__________ has small families with fewer young people to fill entry-level service jobs,and __________ has a burgeoning population of young people seeking employment.

One division of Muslims thought Muhammad's successor should be a blood relative - this division led to the __________ branch of Islam,which makes up about 15 percent of Muslims.

The __________ language and heritage have had the most significant impact on the people of Central Asia.

Civil law is the basic criminal code in Saudi Arabia,along with whatever law is established by the king.

In this region,two__________ provide significant historical value to the concept of human development: __________ and the__________.

Iran is a land of __________.