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Middle East
An area comprising the countries of southwest Asia and northeast Africa. In the 20th century, the region has been the continuing scene of political and economic turmoil.
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The Arab Spring started in Tunisa in December 17th, 2010 in a town called Sidi Bou Zid when a young man names Mohammed Buazizi set himself on fire because he couldn`t afford to pay a bribe imposed by the police.
What is the diversity of religions of Arab Ashanti bantu and Swahili?
Arabs are mainly Muslim. Ashanti people have an old religion however very few practice it since the introduction of other religions by Europeans (Christianity) and Arabs (Islam). Swahili is not a tribe but it is a language spoken throughout east Africa. The language contains African language mixed with Arabic. The language differs in different east African countries like Uganda Kenya, Tanzania and others.
So here comes the question how different is it? It is like Australian English vs American English Vs British English. About the religion of Bantu. First of all Bantu is a large ethnic group consisting of hundreds of tribes. It like Europe consisting of France Bulgaria, Spain etc. Today's Africa 's diversity of religions has been decreasing due the European and Arabic influence. However, very few people still practice old traditional religions
This is an informed answer but is off base in some respects. Swahili is much more thn a language: it is a geographic area (the coast and islands from Mozambique to Somalia) and it also a culture. The Swahili culture, an amalgam mainly of African and Arab culture, with an emphasis on Islam, with contributions from others, has spread inland in some places, but remains primarily a coastal culture. There are three major dialects: Kiunguja (Zanzibar), Kimrima (the coast), and Kingwana (eastern Congo); the Mombasa area also has its dialect. Kiunguja is regarded as standard and is the version taught in schools throughout East Africa. Most Africans who speak Swahili are not Swahilis by culture, but several million are. Swahilis can be of different tribes but are widely regarded as a recognizable ethnic group.
Note: Bantu is exclusively a linguistic classification, like, say, Indo-European. It has no ethnic basis in terms of history, geography, religion, or culture.
Does Miley Cyrus like Arab people?
okéy i'am a Arab girl iam from morcco and im gonna tell you ! Miley hates Us
you know i was her biggiest fan i loved her so mmush i was always here for her follow on her n for exeple on youtube ( Selena vs miley ) always votin for miley and she doesn't ever care : she is so sulfish and now i just hate her a little bet ! as i said im from morocco i just read in a website that in some show I'm now sure about wich one : what ever !
they said : miley , if we teell u that you got a Arabic fans more then Americans or ...
Miley : If i knew about it before I wish I'm not singer n actress and i wish that I've never been bord or in this world
i was choked ! so miley what ever u did u'v been my idole : my role model : i loved u so mush even my family n my friends said that i should stop !! i was crazy about u but now ! i don't guess so !!
the one thing that i know now is one time ur going to lose ur fans if u keep on doin' what have u done
( sorry for the English hh )
The predominant religion in central and southwest Asia is?
Islam is the major religion in north Africa and southwest Asia.
Where do the majority of people in Southwest Asia live?
Most of the population in Southwest Asia is located where there is water.
Where did the first cities evolve?
There are a lot of candidates for this particular first. The top 10 contenders are:
1: Uruk, the Official Earliest City: Located in Turkey inhabited between 7500 BCE and 5700 BCE. Population between 5,000 people up to 10,000.
2: Ur - Sumerian capital: Founded as far back as 5,000 BCE but didn't become a city until 3,000 BCE. Population may have reached 65,000 residents.
3: Nippur, City of Enlil also in Sumeria: First settled in 5,000 BCE but by the 3rd millennium it was a city. Population around 20,000 inhabitants.
4: Tell Hamoukar (a contender for earlist first city): Located in Syria. Founded in 4000 BCE and a city by 3500 BCE.
5: Tell Brak (Northern Mesopotamia): Late 5th millennium BCE to early 4th millennium BCE.
6: Nekhen (Early capital of Egypt):As early as 3500 BCE.
7: Memphis, Egypt: Founded in 3100 BCE. Population as up to 30,000.
8: Mohenjo-daro (Indus Valley): Founded at around 2600 BCE. It had a population of 35,000.
9: Harappa (Indus Valley): Founded at around 2600 BCE, population up tp 20,000 residents.
10: Caral, Peru: Founded in 2600 to 2000 BCE. Population as high as 20,000 residents.
What are the rivers in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
There are four permanent rivers in the Middle East: the Nile, the Euphrates, the Tigris, and the Jordan. There are many more rivers, but these are seasonal rivers, which means that they dry out in the summers.
What is the largest religious group in the middle east?
Answer 1
The largest group in the middle east is Abrahamic.
Answer 2
The most populous religious group in the Middle East is Sunni Islam.
Answer 1 tells us nothing about the various religions in the Middle East. With the exception of Zoroastrianism, all of them are Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Druze, Baha'i, Yazidi, etc.)
Why do many oil rich nations of the Middle East have to import fresh water?
They are desert countries, so while they have sufficient petroleum to pay for fresh water, they do not have direct access to fresh water.
WOW have you got it backwards.
Israel does not want war.
Some of the countries around Israel would rather see nuclear war than allow Israel to exist.
And yes we will have to pay for oil when war drives the price up.
A: That's the very point I've been trying to make since joining answers, there is no need to be paying the price for these wars by buying oil products. Yes the price of oil will go up. And yes there is Religious trouble in the middle East, and there will always be trouble, as long as the sons of Abraham are remembered. This is when the West should step back from it, and monitor nuclear activity in the sector. The program of non fossil fueled transport, should be of Western priority. Or Am I reading the wrong books.
Britain did not promise the Arabs anything in 1914.
From July 1915 to January 1916, the British wrote the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence which was a set of letters between the British High Commissioner in Egypt (Sir Henry McMahon) and the Sharif of Mecca (Hussein ibn Ali). In these letters, the British promised the Arabs a unitary Arab State in the Middle East that would cover most of the Middle East. However, some areas were excepted, mostly along the Syrian coast.
It is unclear whether or not Mandatory Palestine was also excepted because the terms are ambiguous. Arabs argue that since Palestine is not mentioned explicitly as an exception (whereas specific Syrian cities are mentioned), Palestine was included. The British and the Jews aregue that the reservation was for areas west of Damascus and all of Palestine is west of Damascus.
What role did middle east play in World War 1?
The Middle East (as a region, not a country) was one of the five major theaters of World War I activity. (Others including the Western Front, the Italian-Austrian Front, the Eastern Front, and the Balkan Front).
British forces engaged the Ottomans in what is now Egypt, Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. The British also created and armed Arab and Jewish Militias to assist them in their attacks against the Ottomans.
Why does the Middle East hate the west?
This is a complicated question because the answer is complex and can become inflammatory quite easily. Please bear this in mind as you read the answer.
1) Palestinian Indigenous Rights: The indigenous Palestinians and their descendants are aggrieved that people from abroad would come to the land that the parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents had lived on and worked for as long as they could remember and buy that land from the Ottomans without consulting them. Moreover, these people had a particular agenda to establish a state on the land they called their own. Understandably, the Palestinians, and many of their Arab brethren who support them, are opposed to the Zionist project for these emotional and political considerations. Additionally, the Israeli Military Occupation of the West Bank Territories and the Blockade of Gaza represents a true legal and humanitarian crisis for Supporters of an Independent Palestine and the Palestinian People. To many Arabs, the Palestinians must have the right to go back to their homes (although it is doubtful that they would have permitted that right to the Jews should the Arabs have been victorious in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9).
2) International Legal Violations: Israel has engaged in a number of policies in violation of international law, such as the unification of Jerusalem, the settlements in the West Bank, the annexation of the Golan Heights, etc.. Israel is not reticent for performing such acts and claims that it violates those laws because they are prejudicial to its rights and interests. If other countries did the same, (Iran is a great example), they are sternly reprimanded by the international community and forced to toe the line.
3) Anti-Semitism: This should be self-evident. The Logic goes thus: Anti-Semites oppose any Jewish aspiration to freedom and/or power. Zionism promotes Self-Determination for the Jewish people which is an aspiration to freedom and power. Therefore, Anti-Semites oppose Zionism. Additionally, many people who are Anti-Semitic see Jews as running some sort of international cabal to strip power from everyone else. Equipped with a country, who knows what further havoc Jews could cause. The Arab World is prone to these types of conspiracy theories, making the Protocols of Zion and Mein Kampf bestsellers in the Arab World. There are many respectable Arabs who take these works seriously as historical discussions of Jews.
4) Jewish Reversal of Dhimmi System: The Arab class system during the Islamic Empires had always been very clear. Muslims were of a superior class to the non-Muslims (usually Jews and Christians) called Dhimmi (which means protected ones). This is coupled with the Islamic assertion that once a land comes under Muslim domination that the land should not convert to non-Muslim power. A small minority of Muslim Revanchists make claims at controlling Spain, which was only ruled in parts by Muslims for 700 years over 500 years ago. Israel sits on lands that were under Islamic domination for nearly 1300 years (with a less than a century under the Crusader States). Therefore, many Muslim Arabs rejected the Jewish state purely because it was Jewish. Had it been just another Muslim group, a separate state would have been accepted without controversy, like has been the case for the 22 other Muslim Arab states. But it was intolerable to allow the Dhimmis to set up a state, especially one in which Dhimmis would rule over some Muslims.
Some information on the discrimination against the Dhimmi: The Dhimmi was required to pay a number of taxes that were connected with his dhimmi status. The most famous was the jizya, which was a tax that Dhimmi had to pay for Muslims for the right to not be killed where they stood for not acknowledging Mohammed's Prophecy; it was a form of humiliation. Additional taxes included the kharaj, which was a tax on non-Muslim land-holdings in the Muslim World. The kharaj was so untenable that most Dhimmi were forced to live in the cities where the tax would not be applicable. On paper, a Christian or Jew could testify against a Muslim, but in reality, such testimony was not acceptable and the attempt to "defame" a Muslim would receive retribution. Christians and Jews were not allowed to build new houses of worship, restore old houses of worship, proselytize in any way (this included religious debate or dialogue), or allow wine or pigs to be shown in public.
5) Arab Nationalism: Arab Nationalism as a movement crystallized in the 1930s and came to the political fore in the 1960s. Arab Nationalism is a movement that seeks to create an Arab State or multiple Arab States based on common cultural and historical markers. This movement began to make a tether between Arab cultural identity and Islamic religious identity. This was especially keen in places with large non-Muslim communities because those communities typically worked closely with the European colonizers seen to be repressing the Arab identity. Zionism, which is a movement based on a European cultural identity and a Jewish religious identity was antithetical to the Arab Nationalist movement ideologically and claims territory that Arab Nationalists also claim putting them at odds politically.
6) Islamism: Islamism, the political philosophy that Shari'a or Islamic Religious Law should be the grounds upon which a state is ruled, strenuously opposes any Western-style of government because it does not uphold Islamic moral standards (for example: gays and haram meats are permitted). Israel, as a secular, Westernized State is opposed for this reason. Israel, specifically, is also hated by Islamists for two reasons unique to Israel. The first is that the Jews are the ones in power. In the Islamist conception, only Muslims should be in power in the State and any non-Muslim minorities should have a secondary role if they should have one at all. Second, Israel is situated in territory which used to be governed by Muslims for nearly 1300 years (with a century-long break under the Crusader States). As a result, Israel is considered a usurpation of historical Islamic authority whereas European countries (for example) never had Islamic authority before.
It is worth noting that not all Muslims are opposed to the State of Israel and there are several Islamic arguments in favor of the State of Israel, such as those advocated by Sheikh Hadi Palazzi, Irshad Manji, and Tawfik Hamid. None of these individuals, though, is an Islamist. Of the Muslims who oppose the State of Israel, not all of them are Islamist either, many are Arab Nationalists or have no general political affiliation and oppose the State of Israel for one of the many other reasons listed here. Finally, Islam/Muslim/Islamic is the religion and Islamism/Islamist is the political philosophy; the two are different.
7) Anti-Colonialism: While Arab Nationalism was an anti-colonial movement, the general principles of the anti-colonialism led to a rejection of States based on European values in non-European locations with a large number of non-European (ethnically speaking) inhabitants. This sentiment was felt most strongly towards (South) Rhodesia, South Africa, and what would become Israel. Anti-colonialists believe that Asians and Africans had the right to Self-Determination pursuant to their cultures. However, Rhodesian and South African institutions could and did eventually convert to being African nations (in the true sense of the term) because their racist infrastructure could be reformed. Zionism is by default a government by the Jews and would cease to be Zionist if the Jews were taken out of the leadership position. Thus Zionism catches the ire of anti-colonialists.
8) Non-Jewish Holy Sites: Since the Holy Land does not only have Jewish Holy Sites, but also has Christian and Muslim Holy Sites, there is opposition in these communities to Jews having a physical monopoly and control of these holy sites. Therefore, Arab Muslims and Christians opposed the idea of a Jewish Nation State that could do exactly that.
9) Political Antagonism: If State A has a lot of wars with State B, State A and B will develop a mutual animosity towards each other and their raisons d'être. There are a number of politically independent or partially independent Peoples and States that came into conflict with the Halutzim (Jewish Pioneers in the British Mandate of Palestine), the Haganah et al. (Jewish Militias), and Tzahal (the Israeli Army). This has only increased with the numerous Arab-Israeli Wars, the Intifadas, the Occupation of the West Bank and the Blockade of Gaza, and Israel's acquisition of nuclear weaponry.
10) Anti-Nationalism: In today's world, as things like globalization, cultural diffusion, and mixed ethnicities in major districts become more prominent, the Zionist model of a Nation-State dedicated to one race or religion seems anachronistic. Germany, founded on the same model, now has the issue of integrating Turks (and their children) into the German state, but since Germans always lived in Germany and constituted a majority there, as opposed to being a reorganized Diaspora, nobody suggests that Germans should "return" to a more cosmopolitan type of existence. This is, however, oftentimes suggested by Anti-Nationalists and Post-Nationalists concerning the Jews and their State.
What are some jobs of southwest Asia?
Construction, farming, petrochemical workers, drilling, and refining
the main rivers of south-west Asia are Euphrates and Tigris. Tributaries of Euphrates are R.Khabur and R.Balikh and those of Tigris are the Great and the Lesser Zab, Diyala and Karun rivers.
Which country in Southwest Asia has a theocracy?
With the exception of Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus, every country in Southwest Asia is partially or wholly autocratic.
What is the most common religion in the middle east?
Islam
Why is southwest Asia so hot and arid?
because i said so you dont talk to me stop reading this or ill slap you
How are ways that the Arab culture have influenced the English culture?
The Arab culture (Islam) was at its height while Christian Europe was still in its Dark Age. Many of the things western culture takes for granted today were introduced to Britain by the returning Crusaders: the concepts of higher education (and advanced mathematics), hospitals, a judicial system, fabrics other than wool, spices, etc.
What food production is limited in the middle east?
one particular crop that is grown in the middle eat is the olive.
What are ways that Arabs who lived in villages make their living?
Arabs make living through trade,harvesting, that's pretty much it. I should know my Friend is one and so am I.
