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Predicting the Future: Resources in the Middle East

Question 1 • Online World History B

The map shows dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. If Turkey were to build twenty more dams on these rivers, how would this most likely affect Syria and Iraq?

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They would be indifferent of such development because they have their own sources of freshwater in the region.
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They would be happy because such development would increase their access to freshwater in the region.
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They would be angry because such development would severely limit their only access to freshwater in the region.
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They would be frustrated and would likely turn toward other sources of freshwater in the region.
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