Ethnic or Religious?
A group of people who share a common belief system is called this.
What is a religious group?
This religion is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible.
What is Christianity?
This word means belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
This is the largest ethnic group in the Middle East.
Who are the Arabs?
Arab people originally came from this part of Southwest Asia.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
A group of people who share language, culture, customs, and traditions is called this.
What is an ethnic group?
This religion is based on the Torah and the teachings of the Jewish people.
What is Judaism?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all believe in this important prophet.
Who is Abraham?
This ethnic group is mainly found in Iran and is united by the Farsi language.
Who are the Persians?
This language became a major unifying language among many groups in the Middle East.
What is Arabic?
True or False: Everyone in an ethnic group must practice the same religion.
What is False?
This religion teaches that Muhammad is God's last prophet.
What is Islam?
All three major religions believe that the soul continues to exist after this happens.
What is death?
This ethnic group lives mainly in the mountainous areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Türkiye.
Who are the Kurds?
After World War I, Kurdish lands were divided among these four countries.
What are Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Türkiye?
A religious group can include people with different cultures, languages, and races.
What is True?
Name all three major religions that originated in the Middle East.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
What are the 5 Pillars of Islam?
Declaration of Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting, and Pilgrimage
True or False: Most Kurdish people are Muslim, but some Kurdish people are Christian or Jewish.
What is True?
This ancient empire is part of the cultural heritage of the Persian people.
What is the Persian Empire?
A person can belong to an ethnic group and a religious group at the same time. Explain why.
What is because ethnicity is based on shared culture/language/traditions, while religion is based on shared beliefs?
Match the religion to its sacred book: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.
What are Judaism: Torah, Christianity: Bible, and Islam: Qur'an?
Name one belief shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is belief in one God, belief in prophets, or belief in an afterlife?
Name the three major ethnic groups we discussed
Who are the Arabs, Kurds, and Persians?
Explain one way that trade, migration, or conquest has helped create cultural diversity in Southwest Asia.
What is people moving and interacting with other groups spread languages, religions, traditions, and cultural practices?