• 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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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