Benjamin Dady
Hour:5-6
Date: 3/10/09
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Absolute location- 3800E. 3500N.
Relative location- middle east, bordering the Mediterranean sea,
between Lebanon and Turkey.
physical place- is mostly semiarid and desert plateau
Movement- cars, boats, helicopters , and planes
How humans interact with the environment – agriculture and industry
waste pollutions
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In 732 BCE the Assyrians
conquered most of Syria
In539BCE Syria became part of
the Persian Empire
In 1967 Israel beat the country of
Syria
Christianity was very strong in
Syria until Muslim conquest took
over in 634AD
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Syria has 2.5 billion barrels of oil
is in Syria
A total of 79.9% of Syrians can
read
Out of every 1000 babies born
26.78 die
Life expectancy is 70.9 years
Syrians make around 4,900
dollars a year
Syria has a
dictatorship
government
 Bashar al-Assad is
their president
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 Main
religion is Islam
 official language is
Arabic
 Islam holiday is
Ramadan
 women's clothing is a
hijab and a niqnab
 men's clothing is a
keffiyah and a Jalabas
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Growth rate- 2.189%
Population-19,747,586 people
Life Expectancy- Male- 69.53
years Female- 72.35 years
Literacy- male86% Female73.6%
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Syrians will build houses around
a court yard in the summer
If adult children live near their
parents house they will visit them
weekly
Syrians eat lunch between 2-3
Some Syrians will eat with their
hands and sometimes will use
utensils
Syria is about the same size as
Florida
Online
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CIA,Worldfactbook,Syria,updated:February24, 2009
https://www.cia.gov.library/publications/theworld-factbook/geos/sy.html
Cultragrams, world Edition, Syria, 2009 proQuest LLC and Brigham Young
university
http://onlin.cultragrams.com/world/worldcounrty.php?contiid=3&wmm=Asi
a&cid=156&cn=Syria
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Print
The Contemporary Middle East, Felton, John, Washington, D.C. CQ Press,
2008