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Questions:

1. What countries constitute the Middle East and North Africa? Which are the three most populous? What economic resources do the least and most populous countries have, and how do internal growth and international migration affect the countries' development?
2. What are the principal beliefs and historical geographic milestones of Jews, Christians, and Muslims? What traditions and beliefs do they share?
3. What happened when Saddam Hussein's troops invaded Kuwait? What happened when they invaded Iran? Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003, and what do historians now say about subsequent events there and in Syria? What is the "Pottery Barn" analogy of American responsibilities in Iraq? How is ISIS related to the war that began in 2003?
4. How did the modern nation of South Africa evolve? What are the main ethnic groups in South Africa? What were their traditional social and economic roles? How have these changed since the end of apartheid? How did apartheid affect the country's cultural geography?
5. Where were the major colonial possessions of various European powers in Sub-Saharan Africa? What did Europeans extract from the region? What was the "mistake of 1914" that impacted Nigeria?
6. What impacts did the end of the Cold War have on many African countries? Why has geopolitical interest been re-focused on the region?