A displaced group of Arabs who lived or still live in the area formally called Palestine and now called Israel.
What are Palestinians?
100
Used deadly chemical weapons on settlements of Kurds to kill them or force them to leave the area.
What is the Iraqi Government?
100
Fueled the world's industries and transportation at the start of the 21st century.
What is oil?
100
Often it is difficult for ______ to get an education and find employment.
Who are women?
100
The Saudis were determined to reduce their dependence on imported _____.
What is wheat?
200
In Israel, a strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River.
What is the West Bank?
200
The discovery of these huge deposits opened many new job opportunities in Southwest Asia.
What is petroleum and natural gas?
200
Improved their infrastructure by building roads in rural areas, irrigation networks, facilities to store agricultural products, and built desalinization plants.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
The skills and talents of employed people.
What are human resources?
200
A resources so important that nations will go to war to ensure its steady supply.
What is strategic commodity?
300
A largely unskilled laborer, often an immigrant from South and East Asia, brought in to the oil-booming countries to fill job openings that the region's native peoples find culturally or economically unacceptable
What is a Guest Worker?
300
________ differences often exist between guest workers and their employers.
What is cultural?
300
Improvements in agriculture allowed these products to completely meet Saudi Arabia's national demand.
What are dairy products, red meat, poultry, and eggs.
300
Conflict between ____ and Arabs over land and statehood in Southwest Asia disrupts life in the region.
What are jews?
300
Thousands of Kurds have been displaced from here and have been forced to live in crowded relocation camps.
What is their homeland?
400
A nation of people that does not have a territory to legally occupy. (ex. Palestinians, Kurds, and Basques)
What is a stateless nation?
400
In 1990 nearly ___ percent of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) work force was made up of immigrants.
What is 90?
400
Revived its copper industry and chromium mines.
What is Oman?
400
Thousands have lived and died here without being able to return to lands they claim as their homeland.
What are refugee camps?
500
A territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula.
What is the Gaza Strip?
500
Relocated to camps in Israel and consider themselves a stateless nation.
What are Palestinians?
500
Remove the salt from seawater and provide water for cities and industrial use.
What are desalinization plants?
500
Both Israelis and the Palestinians claim it as their capital.
What is Jerusalem?
500
Outnumber the native workers in parts of the Arabian Peninsula.