CRCT Review

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CRCT Review
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Southwest Asia Map
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Bodies of Water in the Middle East
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Resources

• Scarce
• not a lot of
• Abundant
• a lot of

• Water
• Oil

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Oil Production

• How has an abundance of Oil and Organization of
  OPEC affected the economies of SW Asia (Middle
  East)?

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• How have deserts and rivers affected population
  and where people live?

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Ethnic vs. Religious

• Ethnic
• Something you cannot change
• Persians
• Kurds
• Arabs

• Religious
• Something you choose to practice
• Islam
• Christianity
• Judaism

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Sunni/ Shia Split
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Literacy Rate and Standard of Living

• Literacy Rate
• The of people in a country (15) who can read
  and write
• Literacy Rate Standard of Living

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DISTRIBUTION OF POWER
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UNITARY

• Unitary Where the power is.
• Characterized by or constituting a form of
  government in which power is held by one central
  authority.
• LAWS ARE MADE IN ONE PLACE WHICH IS THE CENTRAL
  GOVERNMENT (This is the capital of the country).
• MOST COUNTRIES ARE UNITARY

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CONFEDERATION

• Confederations usually come together to problem
  solve.
• Voluntary association of independent states, to
  secure some common purpose, agree to certain
  limitations on their freedom of action and
  establish some joint machinery of consultation or
  deliberation
• Example
• OPEC
• CONFEDERATE STATES
• OF AMERICA
• (during civil war)

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FEDERAL

• Federal - Where the power is.
• Characterized by or constituting a form of
  government in which power is divided between in
  central and several regional authorities
• Laws are made by the central governments and
  regional governments.
• Example USA

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CITIZENS PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT
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AUTOCRATICCitizens have no or little
sayExample King or Dictator
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OLIGARCHIC

• Oligarchic (oli-gar-kick) Who? A select group.
• Government by the few, sometimes in which a
  small group exercises control especially for
  corrupt and selfish purposes. The citizen has a
  very limited role.

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DEMOCRATIC

• Democratic All people are represented in the
  government . WHO?
• A government in which the supreme power is
  vested in the people and exercised by them
  directly or indirectly through a system of
  representation usually involving free elections.

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FORMS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
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PARLIAMENTARY

• Parliamentary
• A system of Government having the real executive
  power vested in a cabinet composed of member of
  the legislature who are individually and
  collectively responsible to legislature. May have
  prime minister elected by the legislature

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PRESIDENTIAL

• Presidential
• A system of government in which the president is
  constitutionally independent of the legislature

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Middle Eastern Government
Distribution of Power Citizens Role
Theocracy of Iran Unitary Oligarchic
Monarchy of Saudi Arabia Unitary Autocratic
State of Israel Unitary Democracy
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South Eastern Asia Governments
Distribution of Power Citizens Role
The Republic of India Federal Democracy
Communist State of the Peoples Republic of China Unitary Autocratic
The Constitutional Monarchy of Japan Federal Democracy
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African Governments
Distribution of Power Citizens Role
The Republic of Kenya Federal Democracy
The Dictatorship of the Republic of Sudan Unitary Autocratic
Republic of South Africa Federal Democracy
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Economic Questions

• What to produce
• How to produce
• For Whom to produce

Command
Free Market
When people decide all three
When govt decides all three
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Trade

• Specialization of Trade occurs when countries
  have different natural, human, and capital
  resources and different ways of combining these
  resources, they are not equally efficient at
  producing the goods and services that their
  residents demand.

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Trade Restrictions

• Trade Barrier
• government policy or regulation that restricts
  international trade. The barriers can take many
  forms, including the following terms that include
  many restrictions in international trade within
  multiple countries that import and export any
  items of trade.
• Tariffs Quotas Embargos

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QUOTAS

• A type of trade barrier that sets a physical
  limit on the quantity of a good that can be
  imported into a country in a given period of
  time.

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EMBARGO

• EMBARG----NO
• Restriction of trade with a specified country

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TARIFFS

• A tariff is a tax imposed on goods when they are
  moved across a political boundary. They are
  usually associated with protectionism, the
  economic policy of restraining trade between
  nations. For political reasons, tariffs are
  usually imposed on imported goods, although they
  may also be imposed on exported goods.

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Human Capital

• Human Capital
• Amount of money a person is capable of making

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Think about it

• If Sudan wanted to increase its GDP by
  increasing Human Capital what could the country
  do????
• Invest money into _____________ and
  _____________.......

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Capital

• Capital
• assets available for use in the production of
  further assets

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Think about it

• If Sudan wanted to increase its GDP by
  increasing Capital what could the country do????
• Invest money into _____________ and
  _____________.......

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Establishment of Israel

• WWII
• Jews were persecuted during the Holocaust in
  Germany
• Anti-Semitism
• Prejudice against or hostility towards Jews
• United Nations voted to divide Palestine into two
  states, one Jewish and one Arab
• as accepted by Zionist leaders but rejected by
  Arab leaders.
• Creation of Israel has led to continuing
  religious wars

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USA Foreign Involvement

• Persian Gulf War
• Fear of Iraq having too much control over oil
  after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990
• Terrorism
• USA in Afghanistan and Iraq in response to 9/11
  attempting establishing democracy

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South and East Asian Countries
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South and East Asian Bodies of Water
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Landforms of South and East Asia
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Religions of South and East Asia

• Buddhism
• Founded in India
• Siddhartha Gautama
• Buddhaenlightened one
• Hinduism
• Founded in India
• Sacred River is Ganges
• Most prominent religion in India

• Shintoism
• Native to Japan
• Confucianism
• Philosophy of respecting your elders

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Nationalism in South and Eastern Asia

• India
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Non-Violent Protests
• Boycotted British for independence
• Vietnam
• Ho Chi Minh
• Violent Wars
• Fought French for independence

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US Role in Rebuilding Japan after WWII

• US provided financial aid to help rebuild Japans
  economy after the dropping of the A Bombs

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Communism in China

• Mao Zedong
• Established the Communist State of China
• Great Leap Forward
• Resulted in economic hardship, was meant to keep
  up with the west
• Cultural Revolution
• Red Guards destroyed all of old China and
  anything that promoted knowledge other than that
  of the new China
• Tiananmen Square
• Educated College Students protested communism and
  they were brutally put down, but opened the eyes
  to those who followed Mao, that there are
  successful economies and governments that allow
  for freedom and choice
• Ironically the same place where the Communist
  state of China was declared by Mao Zedong

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Reasons for Foreign Involvement

• Vietnam War
• US became involved in attempt contain communism
  from spreading.
• Red Scare
• Ultimately the Communist North defeated US and
  South Democratic Vietnam
• Korean War
• US became involved in attempt contain communism
  from spreading.
• Red Scare
• Ultimately the war was declared a stalemate and
  North Korea and South Korea are still 2 separate
  countries.
• North Korea -gt Communist
• South Korea -gt Democratic

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African Countries
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African Landforms/Regions
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African Rivers/Bodies of Water
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African Ethnic Groups

• Bantu
• Southern Africa
• Most practice Traditional Religions
• Ashanti
• Western Africa
• Traditional, Christianity, and Islam is practiced
• Swahili
• Eastern Africa
• Islam and Traditional
• Arab
• Northern Africa
• Most practice Islam and Christianity

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Effects of Natural Resources in Africa

• Gold, Uranium, and Diamonds
• South Africa
• Increases trade, mining, and foreign interest in
  the Country
• Oil
• Nigeria
• Government has focused attention to oil, and
  other sectors of the economy have suffered

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European Imperialism in Africa

• Artificial Boundaries set up by European
  Countries led to
• civil wars between tribes in Europe

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Nationalism to Independence

• South Africa
• Fully independent from British in 1990 with
  abolishment of Apartheid
• Kenya
• Achieved Independence from British through
  Violent wars led by the Mau Mau
• Nigeria
• Non-Violently achieved independence from British
  through formation of political parties

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Apartheid

• Creation of apartheid denied black south Africans
  civil rights
• President FW de Klerk
• Protested apartheid
• ended Apartheid in 1990
• Released Nelson Mandela from Jail in 1990
• Served at Nelson Mandelas Vice president
• Nelson Mandela
• Imprisoned for protesting apartheid
• Released from prison in 1990
• First democratically elected black president of
  South Africa
• Elected in 1994

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