Unit 5
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milkimz on December 6, 2010
Subjects:
southwest asia and northwest africa
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 In what region do more than 90% of Egypt's people live? | Nile Delta |
| In 1950 what country was created when a kingdom unified? | Saudi Arabia |
| Most of the people in north african, and southwest asia live near what ? | Sea coast and Rivers |
| Cairo is the primate city for what country? | Egypt |
| What was the area called between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where one of the world's first cultural hearths developed? | Fertile cresent |
| When low oil prices caused payments to be cut to oil producing countries, the Gulf states reacted in the 150s by forming what? | OPEC |
| What cultures have been main influences on the region of North Africa and southwest asia? | Indigenous and Arab |
| What beleive do all three majoir religious in the area share a belief in? | Menotheism |
| What ethnic group are the majority of people living in iraq? | Arab |
| What two countries were original OPEC members? | Iran and Iraq |
| What relion is followed by most people in Iran | Shiite Muslim |
| In the Muslin faith when praying foollowers touches their forehead to the ground in the direction of waht? | Mecca |
| What type of boundaries did European colonial powers establish in Northern Africa? | Geometric |
| what grooup of people originally expelled the jews from their homeland? | Romas |
| what are the two most dominant sects of islam? | Sunnie and Shid |
| what group pf people wants their own independent state in the west back and the gaza strip areas? | Palestinians |
| Most people living on the Arabian peninsula follow what religion? | Islam |
| What is the name of an Islamic house of worship? | Mosque |
| What religion does most of the Arabs in North Africa folow? | Sunnie Muslim |
| In islamic art artistic depictions of living are discouraged in religious art, as a result what designs are important elements in Islamic art | Floral and Geometric |
| What dam was built in Egpt to control the nile's flood,, improve irrigation and to supple electricity to the nation ? | Aswan High Dam |
| During the persian gulf war starting in 1990 Iraq invaded what neighboring country? | Kuwait |
| What terms means streambeds that are dry except during a heavy rain? | Wadis |
| What ancient civilization developed along the easter Mediteranean coast and traded widely across the Mediterranean? | Summerians |
| The world's largest Desert | Sahara Desert |
| What was the first major civilization in the region of Mesopotamia that established tear round farming and cuneiform? | Summerians |
| what man made feature connects the Mediterranean and Red Sea? | Suez canal |
| What is the name oof products that are derived from pertoleum or natural gas? | Pertrochemicals |
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