Which of the following statements is true of the regions labeled with the number 2 on the map above?

The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of Reagan's presidency. Arms were secretly sold to Iran and the profits obtained from the sale went to support the Contras in Nicaragua.

In Nicaragua, young Marxists known as Sandinistas took power and turned to the Soviet Union for support and advisers. Soviet Union and Cuba both backed the new Sadinistas government. Seeing it as a way to spread communism, the Reagan administration backed the Contras ( the opposition to the new government). The Contras rebels received financial and military support from the U.S., the rebels were also trained covertly by the CIA. The money for the Contras came from illegal arms sales to Iran. The funding of the Contras had been prohibited by the Congress.

The official justification for the arms shipment to Iran was to pay for the release of seven American hostages in Lebanon. Iran was the subject of arms embargo and any arms sales were prohibited. It turned out that the sales started even before any hostages were taken. Iran was involved in a war with Iraq and the United States feared that it would fall under the Soviet Union's influence, as the Soviet Union supported Iraq in that war.

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A typical characteristic of theocratic governments in the fertile crescent includes:

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A typical characteristic of theocratic governments in the fertile crescent includes: blending of religious elements of leadership.

The civilization that flourished in the fertile crescent includes Babylonian, Sumerians etc.
The fertile crescent is known as the cradle of civilization.
The leaders in the fertile crescent had theocratic governments with strict laws and rules to maintain peace and harmony in their governing region.
Religion was the central force in these civilizations as it provided explanations about nature with justified traditional rules of morality.
The rulers were regarded as gods and agents of the gods, derived from religion.
Law was considered sacred, a commandment of the gods.

Therefore we can conclude that theocratic governments had blending of religious elements of leadership.

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