Compare and contrast the 3 main religions of south west asia Judaism, christianity, and

Islam:
~ Islam ~ Christianity ~~ Judaism
~ Founder Muhammad ~ Founder Jesus ~ Founder Abraham, Isca, and Jacob
~ Same: All monotheistic- they all believe in one god

Sunni and the shia:

The reason for their split is when Muhammad died they could not decide how would lead
them the shia wanted one of Muhammad's grandson to lead them but the sunni wanted to
fight to see who would lead them.
How literacy rate affects standard of living:
When countries have a low literacy rate that means that a low level of their people can
read and write. And usually when they can read and write they have a way higher chance
of getting a job and getting paid so they can live in better conditions. So when countries
have a really high literacy rate than they will live pretty well because they will most
likely have a job that pays them so they can buy what they need to survive.

Unitary, confederation, and federal:

Unitary: is when most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government.
Confederation: is when a group of nations form an alliance, for wars and other reasons.
Federal: is when this system provides a series of checks and balances because each
branch is able to limit the power of the others.
How much citizen participation is in : autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic:
Autocratic: The people have NO say in what the government does.
Oligarchy: The people have NO voice in what the government does.
Democracy: The people have a voice and vote what to do in the government.
Describe Parliament and presidential:

Parliament: democratic form of government in which the party (or a coalition of parties)
with the greatest representation in the parliament (legislature) forms the government, its
leader becoming prime minister or chancellor.
Presidential: the executive leader, the President, is directly voted upon by the people, and
the executive leader of the Parliamentary system, the Prime Minister, is elected from the
legislative branch directly.


Government:

Compare how traditional, command, and market economies answer the economic
questions of
(1) what to produce, (2) how to produce, and (3) for whom to produce.:
Traditional: rural farmy things, by trade and factory, citizens with farms and citizens in
rural areas.
Command: whatever the government says, however the government says to, and who
ever the government says can have it.
Market: what ever the people what, by how the people want to, whoever they want to
have it.
Why do most countries have a mixed economy and not a pure command or a pure
market:
Most countries have a mixed economy because you don't what the citizens to have
complete control or nothing would get done because they all have the same roll. And
really no one has Pure command because than he citizens would have no say at anything
and they would almost be like slaves. That is why most countries have mixed economy
because it is a good mix of each market and command.
Compare and contrast the economic systems in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey:
~Same: They are all mixed economies
~Different: Israel is the more advanced and more up there when it comes to economic

freedom, Than there's Saudi Arabia is the 2nd world producer of oil in the world.
And Turkey is more farm land so they are very far away from the other two on the
economic freedom scale.
Explain how specialization encourages trade between countries:
When countries specialize in a certain thing then what they do not have and need or what
they can trade what they have with other countries so each country's gets what that did
not have in the first place and they both make money off of the other country to keep
producing what they specialize in within that country. An example would be if the US
had a ton of wheat and corn and that is what the US specialized in and Japan had mangos
and cookies the US and Japan could trade with each other and get what the other country
already has plenty of and get something that they did not have.
Compare and contrast different types of trade barriers, such as tariffs, quotas, and
embargos:
~Same: the are alike because they all are a roadblock on the way to free trade with
countries.
~Different: They all mean something different and to a different extreme, for example a
tariff is a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports. Then a Quota
is a limited or fixed number or amount of people or things, in particular. Then last but not
least is the embargos is an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a
particular country.
Explain the primary function of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC).
The main role of OPEC is to sell, protect, and find oil all around the world. There are 12
countries in this organization at the moment.

Explain why international trade requires a system for exchanging currencies between
nations:
The reason is that different countries have different amounts of money and they all have

different worths so they most consistently change to do world wide trading.

Explain the relationship between investment in human capital (education and training)
and gross domestic product (GDP).
The similarity between the two are quite alike the reason is that GDP is the total value of
ALL products and services bought and sold. And Human capital is the skills, knowledge,
and experience possessed by an individual or population. And what makes them similar is
the fact that the people are the ones buying, selling, making, and marketing the products
that the country has or does not have and also that whatever the humans do that well go
into record in the GDP ( that involves doing things for the country NOT EVERY WORD
THAT COMES OUT OF EVERY PERSONS MOUTH). So, that is how they are similar.
Explain the relationship between investment in capital (factories, machinery, and
technology) and gross domestic product (GDP).

What makes the two so similar is the fact that what how ever many things are made in a
day goes into the GDP records. And will stay there for all time just in case something
goes wrong.

Explain the role of oil in these countries economies.

The role for oil in these countries economies is that the oil is one of their main money
makers and in some places that is their only money maker. So when countries use their
oil wisely then sell the rest to make money then they will have money to spend on other
things they need in their countries.

Describe the role of entrepreneurship.

The role of an entrepreneur is to help the country by supplying more jobs for people. Also
by paying taxes that will give more money HOPEFULLY to the country to use for any
improvement they may need.

Explain how European partitioning in the Middle East after the breakup of the Ottoman
Empire led to regional conflict.

Artificial boundaries were placed in-between lands without looking into what religious
and ethnic groups were there at the time. When boundaries were placed, ethnic and
religious groups were placed together creating conflict.


Explain the historical reasons for the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948;
include the Jewish religious connection to the land, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and
Zionism in Europe.

The historical reasoning for this event is that the jews believed that that is where they had
started and that they were there first also they UN had promised them to a land of their
own because they had felt sorry for they about what they went through in the camps so
they gave them what they wanted.

Describe how land and religion are reasons for continuing conflicts in the Middle East.
The place that is now modern day Israel all religions believe that that was where they
began and so they ALL wanted the peace of land. Also the Arabs STILL think that the
jews should not be there and they should have the land but wars are still going and many
say they will never stop.

Explain U.S. presence and interest in Southwest Asia; include the Persian Gulf conflict
and invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Persian Gulf:
Iraqs dictator, Saddam Hussein, had invaded Kuwait in order to capture its valuable oil
fields. The UN voted to send in troops to free Kuwait. Fearing for its own oil fields, the
Saudi king invited UN forces, led by the United States to set up bases in Saudi Arabia to
push the Iraqi forces back out of Kuwait, which we did, though we left Hussein in power.

Afghanistan attack:
After the 9/11 attacks, we traced leadership of the terrorist organization that was
responsible to Osama bin Laden, whom we knew was currently in Afghanistan, where the
Taliban government agreed with his goals and methods. We asked the Taliban to hand
him over to us to be tried in court for his crimes. They refused, and we attacked,
overthrowing the Taliban government. In 2011 Bin Laden was killed by US forces while
hiding in Pakistan.
Invasion of Iraq:
After the 9/11 attacks, the US government was very worried about threats from middle
eastern sources. Looking at Iraq, we feared two things: that Iraq had ties to al-Qaeda, the
terrorist group responsible and that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction in

violation of a UN sanction. As a result, we invaded the country, overthrew the leader,

Saddam Hussein, and still have troops there now. We found no ties to al-Qaeda or
WMDs, but we did free the nation from its dictator. Unfortunately, the different ethnic
and religious groups broke out into violence against each other, resulting in thousands of
deaths, and the violence is still occurring today.