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Download full textMalinowski, Jon C., Ed. – 2002
Accused of harboring and supporting terrorists, Saddam Hussein's country of Iraq sits at the top of a short list of targets in United States war on terrorism. Iraq is a country about twice the size of the state of Idaho with a population of over 22 million. The country relies on oil for its economic well-being and controls what some estimate to be…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts
Peer reviewedFox, Richard W.; Cohen, Saul B. – Social Education, 1994
Presents the Middle East as a circumterral (rimmed by interpenetrating inland seas) rather than circumthallasic (lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea). Contends that, in a circumterral setting, domination by a single nation is made difficult by the weight of the land masses that project into the seas. (CFR)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Distribution, Foreign Countries
