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What factor affects the standard of living in a country?
Literacy Rate
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Under which economic system does the government make almost all of its decisions?
Command
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How are countries affected by having a very limited investments in human capital?
Lower GDP: gross domestic product
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Name three types of economic barriers
Tariffs, quotas, embargoes
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How does trade improve the economy?
No country can produce everything it needs. Countries can earn $ from things it can produce.
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Which group claimed responsibility for 9-11?
Al Qaeda
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What is OPEC and what does it do?
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: sets the price of oil
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How are Iran and Saudi Arabia alike?
Both countries contain oil and practice ISLAM
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Which part/one of the 3 participation types allows a leader to maintain complete power?
Autocratic
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Which form of government has a loose alliance?
Confederation
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Which of the 3 participation types has control resting with a small group of people in power?
Oligarchic
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Which form of government allows the central government to divide its power?
Federal
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The primary difference between presidential and parliamentary gov. systems is that a parliamentary system CEO is chosen by who?
- The Voters for President
- The Parliament chooses Parliamentary leader
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Who has all the power in a unitary system?
Central Gov
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Which country in the Middle East is located between Israel and Iran and has two rivers flowing through it?
Iraq
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Which country in the Middle East has a coast line along the Mediterranean Sea?
Israel
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Which country in the Middle East looks like Angel's wings?
Iran
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Which body of water in the Middle East has Iran on its western bank and Saudi Arabia on its Eastern Bank?
Persian Gulf
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What is an ethnic group?
a group identified on the basis of religion, race, or national origin
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What is a religious group?
a group based on religious beliefs and practices
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What did the Europeans do to the Ottoman Empire?
Divided it
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How are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike?
All Middle Eastern religions, Israel Origins, and Monotheistic
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What did the end of WWII, immigration of Jews to Palestine, and a decision of the Untied Nations lead to?
Creation of Israel
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What is the difference between the Shia and the Sunni Muslims?
Who leads the religion: a prophet from Mohammed's lineage or the most qualified?
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Which type of government is based on religion?
Theocracy
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