Israel

CHART: CHARACTERISTICS OF A CIVILIZATION OR CULTURE NAME: William Stargardt PERIOD: 8th DATE: 4/11/10

· ** Leaders, Elites ** · ** State Structure ** · ** War ** · ** Diplomacy, Treaties ** · ** Courts, Laws ** || * ** Parliamentary republic  ** || · ** Type of System ** · ** Technology, Industry ** · ** Trade, Commerce ** · ** Capital/Money ** · ** Types of Businesses ** || * ** A developed country. ** · ** Holy Books ** · ** Beliefs, Teachings ** · ** Conversion ** · ** Sin/Salvation ** · ** Deities ** || * ** Jewish state with a Jewish majority. ** · ** Family ** · ** Gender Relations ** · ** Social Classes ** · ** Inequalities ** · ** Life Styles ** || * ** The diversity of the religions and ethnic groups makes the city cultruallly mixed yet unstable. ** · ** Art, Music ** · ** Writing, Literature ** · ** Philosophy ** · ** Math & Science ** · ** Education ** || * ** Ranks among the highest countries in the Middle East with human development in education. ** · ** Location ** · ** Physical ** · ** Movement ** · ** Human/Environment ** · ** Region ** || * ** Middle East  **
 * =POLITICAL=
 * ** Officially declared a state in 1948. It was founded by a religious movement of the Jewish people into the former Palestine area in a migration called Zionism lead by Theodor Herzl. The British document, Balfour Declaration of 1917, formalized the homeland of the Jewish people in Palestine.  **
 * ** The Partition was rejected by Arab leaders and a civil war broke out in late 1947, and early 1948.  **
 * ** After declaring Independence on May 14th, 1948, the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen declared war on Israel starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was politically resolved.  **
 * ** Since then Israel fought in a series of wars in which they claimed Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Sinai Peninsula.  **
 * =ECONOMIC=
 * ** In 2008, 41st largest GDP in the world.  ** ||
 * == RELIGIOUS ==
 * ** Christians and Muslims also make up a large part of the remaining population.  **
 * ** Jerusalem is the capital which is a religious capital for the 3 major monotheistic religions in the world. Pilgrimages are very common.  ** ||
 * == SOCIAL ==
 * ** Angry Palestinians are refuged in West Bank, and Gaza Strip.  **
 * ** City is divided into religious sections. Jews group in certain parts of the city while Muslims in other. Same for Christians.  ** ||
 * == INTELLECTUAL, artS ==
 * ** Different cultural backgrounds create a unique artistic setting for the state. Mostly in Jerusalem.  ** ||
 * == NEAR: GEOGRAPHY ==
 * ** Boardered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and Gaza Strip to the southwest.  **

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