Author Question: How have demographic trends contributed to the Middle East becoming such a breeding ground for ... (Read 59 times)

ss2343 · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

How have demographic trends contributed to the Middle East becoming such a breeding ground for terrorism?

a. High birth rates produce many unemployed youth, who are attracted to the simplistic lessons of Islamism.
b. Low birth rates produce too few citizens to keep the economy growing, and poverty breeds unrest.
c. High birth rates produce many unemployed youth, who can find well-paying jobs only in the criminal underworld.
d. Low birth rates produce too few citizens to keep the economy growing, so leaders have turned to Islamism to encourage people to have larger families.

Question 2

In democratic systems, major pieces of legislation are usually drafted by __________.

a. lower-level judges
b. political action committees
c. executive branch bureaucrats
d. the leaders of the majority party