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AFGHANISTAN
Government
Government type:
Islamic Republic
Definition of government:
Is the name given to the countries
in the Muslim part of the world
How leaders are chosen?
Afghanistan has a presidential election
Current leader:
President Hamid
Karzai
Economy
Type of economy: market economy.
Fruits and Nuts
(major export item)
Definition of economy: an economy that focuses goods, resource, and
prices.
Success: international assistance with other countries.
Struggle: one of the poorest countries in the world.
Major Imports: capital goods, food, textiles, petroleum products.
Major Exports: opium, fruits and nuts, hand woven carpets, wool, cotton,
hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems.
Textiles
(major imports)
General Geography
Afghanistan on a world map
Physical map of Afghanistan ----->
<----- Political map of Afghanistan
Climate
Climate Regions:
Mountainous Regions: Subartic
Low Lands: Arid
Vegetation:pine, cypress, oak, juniper, laurel,
Afghanistan Climate map
Vegetation map of Afghanistan
barberry, hazel, wild almond, tulips, petunias, sunflower, marigolds, honeysuckles, dahlias, geraniums.
Location impacts climate: In the northeast there are mountains so it will be colder and
towards the south it will be warmer and tropical (towards the equator more)
Summer:Hot, Dry
Winter:Cold, Snowy
Extreme temperature changes from night to day,place to place, and season to season.
Country Flag
Each of the stripes on the represents a part history.
Black: a darkness from the past
Red: all of the wars Afghanistan has had
Green: the hope for a bright future
Middle: the 2 pieces of wheat represent the time of legend
Afghanistan flag
Currency
Money name:
Afghani
Afghani (afghanistan paper
money)
Conversion:
1 US Dollar = 50.02000 Afghanistan Afghani
1 Afghanistan Afghani = 0.01999 US Dollar
exchange rate as of 4/8/12
Afghani coins
Education
Until the 1900s the only school availablewas at mosque
schools which boys only went to. After the constitution in
1931 it made education available for all children. When
the soviet occupation was going on out of the 1.57 million
kids in the refugee camp less than 20% received formal
education. Afghanistan hopes that by 2015 there is at least
13 million children attending school.
<---- Outside classroom
Afghanistan school
Sports
Buzkashi: A calf (goat) is thrown into the middle of an arena and at a signal
the men must lift the calf onto their horse. Then men must travel three miles to
point 1 and then ride back to where they found it to get 1 goal.
Teams: In official games there are two team
that consist of ten players each.
Time Limit: It is an hour game with a ten minute
break at halftime.
Buzkashi (''grab the goat'') is the
national sport
Sports
Pahlwani: Pahlwani is just like wrestling but the rules
are a little different.
Rules: The wrestler may grab the arms and clothing
of their opponent but they may not grab their legs.
When one wrestler's shoulders are pinned to the
ground the other opponent wins.
<--- Pahlwani match
Clothing
Men:
Baggy pants with a drawstring and a long sleeve shirt
Women:
Covered head to toe in cloth
called chadari and some wear pants underneath
Children:
Wear what their men and women
do if they are a boy or a girl
Religious days:
Afghanistan dress called peran-n-tunban
Children in Afghanistan
clothing.
Food
They eat a lot of:
rice, wheat, mazie and barley
Dinner is eaten on the ground sitting on top of a
Mourgh (Afghanistan
chicken)
dastarkhan.
Dastarkhan:
A floor spread used to put food on.
Gosh feel (pastries)
Song of Afghanistan
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Cultural Visual
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Sources-Pictures 1
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/blog_entry/1000x306/1bd324de0347c21
161f51c21581455487cbffebb.jpg (president Hamid Karzai)
http://www.pescholars.com/images/buzkashi.jpghttp(buzkashi)
http://flags-planet.com/images/Afghanistan-flag.gif (Afghanistan flag)
http://www.freeworldmaps.net/asia/afghanistan/afghanistan-map-physical.jpg(physical
map of Afghanistan)
http://www.kmmcoinsandcurrency.com/images/graphics/afghanistan100afghanis.jpg
(Afgani paper)
http://www.bestcountryreports.com/media/D_Images/Afghan_Pol9( political map of
Afghanistan)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Afghani_Coins.JPG (Afghani coins)
http://www.vbmap.org/middle-east-maps-10/afghanistan-world-map-284/(World map
high lighting Afghanistan)
Sources-Pictures 2
http://www.bestcountryreports.com/media/D_Images/Afghan_Temp.j pg(climate map)
http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00776/09mptb_goshfeel_jpg_776939e.jpg
(gosh feel)
http://www.onislam.net/english/oimedia/onislamen/images/family/2007/07/Afghan%20Ch
icken.jpg (mourgh)
http://afghanistannow.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/children-afghanistan.jpg (clothing)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2442419326_e224d21a2e.jpg (economy)
http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/current/ED101fa10/cmmac/Images/fruits%20and%20nu
ts-jj-001.jpg (economy)
http://www.cfisd.net/newsmedia/press/2007/0921%20Afghanistan_school.jpg
(education)
Sources-Websites
http://asiarecipe.com/afgmain.html (food)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_cuisine (food)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_afghani (money)
http://www.countryreports.org/country/Afghanistan/economy/overview.htm (econmy and government)
http://fx-rate.net/AFN/USD/ (money)
http://www.afghanistan-culture.com/afghanistan-flag.html (flag)
http://countrystudies.us/afghanistan/35.htm(climate)
http://www.countryreports.org/country/Afghanistan/fashion.htm
(clothing)http://www.usip.org/publications/afghanistans-economy-right-road-still-long-way-go(economy)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/market+economy(economy)