Landforms, Rivers, and Climates
Plants and Animals
Culture
History
Modern Day Persia
100
Shaped the physical features of the region
What is tectonic forces?
100
Plants that cover the region's wide dry plains
What is shrubs and grasses
100
Islam's holiest city
What is Mecca?
100
Built the world's first civilizations
What is Sumerians/Mesopotamians?
100
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
What is OPEC?
200
Climates that dominate the region
What is hot and dry climates?
200
Highest plains
What is grasslands?
200
Two main branches of Islam
What is Sunni and Shi'ism?
200
World's first civilization
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Political system in Iran
What is Theocracy?
300
Created narrow gulfs and seas
What is plate movements?
300
Plants can't grow in some regions because of
What is salty soil
300
Dominant language
What is Arabic?
300
Prophet who established Islam
What is Muhammad?
300
Pigs aren't eaten because
What is Islam?
400
Season that it rains most
What is winter?
400
Makes life difficult for larger wild animals
What is hunting and competition?
400
Largest ethnic group in Iran
What is the Pashtun?
400
Literature, architecture, and the arts flourished
What is the Golden Age?
500
Two great rivers in Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
500
Domesticated animals in the region
What is camels and donkeys?
500
Caused the diffusion of Arabic words
What is migration, trade, and the spread of Islam?
500
Time era the British took over the Arabian Peninsula
What is the 1800s?
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