Oil demand has been waning in Japan. Oil in Japan is mostly supplied by the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia or Iran, as well as Russia.
Saudi Arabia, officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the world's number one oil exporter and the country with the largest amount of oil reserves.
A. the Middle East
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Why aren't Asia Minor and The Orient it?</h2>
Asia Minor consists of Italy, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Israel, and Lebanon.
The Orient consists of Japan, China, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Assuming that you are referring to the territories of today's Mexico, formerly know as <em>New Spain</em>, here is the paragraph:
As Hernan Cortes campaigned throughout the first continental lands of America, the idea that many Spaniards, probably even himself, harbored was that of founding Spain all over again in the newly found and conquered lands. A mix of nostalgia and pride for the Motherland, Spain, must have prompted the <em>Conquistadors</em> to name the cities and provinces they founded after cities and provinces already existing in Spain. One reason for using already familiar names had to do with the difficulty of pronouncing the original names of the places given by the native people, the other one had to do with a sense of control, since most people hold the belief that naming things bestows them with a degree of control over them. And yet another reason may have been the comfort of living in places named after their old home towns and provinces the Spaniards had come from.
- did not fear the spread of emancipation or slave uprisings
- were sympathetic to Louverture and the revolt against French rule
