Packet 4: Tossup 18

Specific term required. The chapter titled for this region in Prisoners of Geography describes a video of a bulldozer destroying one of its borders. (10[1])Robert Kaplan’s article “The Coming Anarchy” contrasts crime in West Africa with this region’s “future” being written by inhabitants (10[1])of the orderly slum of Golden Mountain. Valentine Chirol elaborated this region’s “question” after it was coined in 1902 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (-5[2])(“muh-HAN”). This region, (10[1])which names (-5[2])an area-studies institute founded by George Camp Keiser, was (-5[1])reified by the speech that outlined the Eisenhower doctrine. (10[1]-5[2])This geopolitical region names a “technical university” near the second CENTO headquarters (-5[1])and a SARS-like coronavirus (10[1])that causes (10[1]-5[1])a respiratory (10[1])syndrome. (10[2])Pew combines this (10[1])region with North Africa. (10[2])For 10 points, the UN geoscheme uses “Western Asia” instead of what term (10[1])for a region (10[1])that includes the Levant (10[1])and Arabia? (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

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