Author: Blaine Conklin
Series: The 20th Century
Narrator: Teacher Created Materials
Unabridged: 0 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 05/01/2012
Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - History - United States - 20th Century
The Middle East is a place of conflict based on the controversial nation of Israel, religious extremism, and the Middle Eastern oil supply. The Middle East produces 65% of the world’s oil. Oil has been responsible for many interactions between industrialized countries and the Middle East. Many times, those interactions have led to conflict. Its history and culture provide insight and understanding to world events taking place there.
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