Political Geography

United States

Constitutional-based federal republic

President Barack Obama

Mexico

federal republic

President Felipe CALDERON 

China

communist state

President HU Jintao

India

federal republic

President Pranab MUKHERJEE

Afghanistan

Islamic republic

President Hamid KARZAI

Iran

theocratic republic 

President Mahmud AHMADI-NEJAD

Israel

parliamentary democracy

President Shimon PERES

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Germany

federal republic

President Joachim GAUCK

Prime minister Chancellor Angela Merkel

United Kingdom

constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth realm

President Queen ELIZABETH 2

France

republic 

President Francois HOLLANDE

Brazil

federal republic

President Dilma ROUSSEFF

Venezuela

federal republic

President Hugo CHAVEZ

Saudi Arabia

monarchy

King and Prime Minister abdullah bin abdulaziz al saud

bomb

I wasn't in  class today because i didn't want to die from the bomb.

shark boy

   Our class was fantastic today October 23, 2012.  We wend over what was going to be the test.  Which is the slide show thing and the religion thing.  Then Matt was calling me "catfish".  Honestly do you think I look like a catfish?  But anyways we learned about shark boy.  He got bit by a shark at the age of four which is really scary.

I hate the texans

  In class we went over the the religions we had for a homework assignment.  Franco was help us understand it better becaus ethat what he just did in religion.  He did know his stuff really well, I was kind of inpreessed because at one point I had no idea what he was talking about. But anyways, Franco was a cool cat, and did not look like me (which everyone thought I looked like him).

hats

    Today in class we went over the project that we had to do over the weekend.  We went over in class how Muslims and Christians live they lives over the world.  The Muslims live a live that is very protective.  Girls wear clothes that cover everything but there eyes because they want to guy to like the girl wants the guy to the girl to love her for her personality.

ethnic Heritage

  In class we went over a few more slides to the power point.  Strong leadership died out the different group fought a very bloody civil war and how they all have separate countries. Rwonda and Burundi in Africa have two ethnic groups that are dominate and they are tutsis and the hutus.  Hutis are dominate in one and persecute the Tusis.  The Tutsis are dominate in other one and they persecute the Tutsis.  Tutsis led almost constant war between the groups.  The U.S and Switzerland have peacefully merged multiple ethnic groups in their countries. Roman killed Christianity because they could.

The Religions

Christians geographical concentration

  This paper is going over Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism. Christianity was founded around 30 AD and first century in Palestine by the disciples. Christianity is a monotheistic religion. Christianity has the bible. Christianity has 2+ followers in its religion. Christianity’s center figure is Jesus Christ.  Islam was founded in the 7^th century AD. Islam is monotheistic a religion. Islam’s holy book is called the Qur'an. .Islam has 1.4 to 1.67 billion followers. Islam’s center figure is Allah, which is "God" in Arabic

Islam's geographical concentration

.  Buddhism was founded in approximately 460 B.C. It was founded by a prince named Siddhartha Gautama.  Buddhism is neither monotheistic nor polytheistic.  Buddhism does not depend on the existence of a God who created the universe. The sacred book of Buddhism is called the Tipitaka.  Buddhists that are in the world is between 230 million and 500 million making it the world's fourth-largest religion.  The number of Buddhists per capita is, appropriately, in Tibet..  Hinduism was founded in 1500-500 BCE and this era of Hinduism is known as historic Vedic Hindu religion, while modern Hinduism started from 1700-1100BCE.  Hinduism has given much freedom to people in worship.  Hinduism says God has as many forms as there are trees, animals, etc.  The main Hindu scriptures are the Vedas.  Number of followers may range anywhere between 860 million to 1.4 billion.  Hindu is a geographical definition used for the people living beyond the river Indus or those living in India. Judaism was founded by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob about 3800 years ago. Judaism is monotheistic.  The Torah is the most holy book of Judaism.  There are between 12-14 million known Jews throughout the world today.  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel are called the Patriarchs they are the center figures for Judaism.  The geographical concentration for Judaism is 6,500,000 Jews in the U.S..