Arabia Vocab.

Embargo

• Limit on trade
• The trade on and around the water
• We trade with the Middle East

Monarchy

• A country with a king/queen in control
• The Arabian peninsula had monarchy's in 
• the past.
• We deal with their government & their
• monarchy's.

Theocracy

• A government ruled by religious leaders
• This makes up some of the government
• Their government supported terrorist groups
• and we have had conflicts with these in the past

Arabian Peninsula

• The world's largest peninsula (SW Asia)
• The whole entire peninsula
• We are in a war with Iraq

Arabs

• One of the main ethnic groups
• They might have had conflicts with
• other groups (Kurds)

Baath Party

• A government that let Saddam Hussein take control
• Let Saddam Hussein become president
• His doing sent troops into Iraq