Transcript The Northeast: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan

The Northeast:
Turkey, Iraq, Iran,
Afghanistan
Chapter 22, Section 3
Vocabulary
• Kurds
• Mesopotamia
• Sunni
• Shi’ite
• Taliban
Human Perspective
A Blend of Cultures
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Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Hittites and
Persians
Shi’ites vs.
Sunni
Clashes Over Land
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Kurdish Homeland?
Refugees to Iran
1st Gulf War
Clashes Over
Leadership
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Regime Change
in Afghanistan
Regime Change
in Iraq
Is it the role of the United States to get involve in internal conflicts in other countries?
Reforming
Economies
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Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Afghanistan
How does internal conflict affect economic
Modern and
Traditional Life
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Fundamentalists
vs. Modernists
Afghanistan
Others
• The Countries of the Northeast are
Turkey, Afghanistan, Iraq and...
• a. Iran
• b. Kuwait
• c. Oman
• d. Israel
• The stateless nation of people that
forms an important minority in at least
three of these countries are the...
• a. Arabs
• b. Hittites
• c. Kurds
• d. Israelis
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The name of the Islamic fundamentalist
group that controlled Afghanistan and is
currently giving the US fits as it tries to
reestablish power is...
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a. the Taliban
b. the Kurds
c. the Shi’ites
d. the Turks