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• AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan
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
Government
Type of economy: market economy.
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.
Fruits and Nuts (major export
item)
Textiles (major
imports)
Economy
Afghanistan on a world map
<----- Political map of Afghanistan
Physical map of Afghanistan ----->
General Geography
Afghanistan Climate map
Climate Regions:
Mountainous Regions: Subartic
Low Lands: Arid
Vegetation:pine, cypress, oak, juniper, laurel,
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.
Vegetation map of Afghanistan
Climate
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
Country Flag
Money name:
Afghani
Conversion:
1 US Dollar = 50.02000 Afghanistan Afghani
1 Afghanistan Afghani = 0.01999 US Dollar
exchange rate as of 4/8/12
Afghani (afghanistan paper money)
Afghani coins
Currency
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.
Afghanistan school
<---- Outside classroom
Education
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
Sports they also play: Soccer, Basketball, Field hockey, Tennis ,Golf , Volleyball
Sports
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.
Clothing
They eat a lot of:
rice, wheat, mazie and barley
Dinner is eaten on the ground sitting on top of a
dastarkhan.
Dastarkhan:
A floor spread used to put food on.
Mourgh (Afghanistan chicken)
Gosh feel (pastries)
Food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkArAyDBm70&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
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Song of Afghanistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuvx5yfJcn8&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
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are needed to see this picture.
Cultural Visual
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/blog_entry/1000x306/1bd324de0347c21161f51c21581455487cbffebb.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 1
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%20Chicken.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%20nuts-jj-001.jpg (economy)
http://www.cfisd.net/newsmedia/press/2007/0921%20Afghanistan_school.jpg (education)
Sources-Pictures 2
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)
Sources-Websites