Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, The UAE (United Arab Emirates), and Yemen
What are the countries that make up the Arabian Peninsula?
100
The climates that dominate the region
What are hot and dry climates?
100
Arabic
What is the dominant language
100
The 2 things central to the economy the countries along the Persian Gulf
What are the production of oil and gas?
100
Type of government in Saudi Arabia
What is conservative monarchy?
200
Tectonic forces
What has shaped the region?
200
land form that provides water to the valleys below
What are mountains?
200
Farsi
What language do most people speak in Iran
200
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
What is OPEC?
200
when the British took over the Arabian Peninsula
What is the early 1900s?
300
Physical land form that stretches along the Arabian Peninsula's western edge
what are mountains?
300
the lowlands of Saudi Arabia along the Persian Gulf
Where are some of the hottest places in the world?
300
Migration, Trade and the spread of islam
What caused the diffusion of Arabic words
300
3 things that affect the regions politics and concern for the future
What are the use of oil wealth ,the desire of some to preserve the authority of traditional leaders and the 3rd involves the role of Islam in a modernizing world
300
a group that came to power in the 90s that established strict laws governing Afghan lives
What is the Taliban?
400
is to the north and east of the Arabian Peninsula and lies mostly in Iraq?
What is Mesopotamia?
400
because the soil is too salty
Why cant plants grow in some places?
400
People who are Muslims but not Arabs
Who are the Kurds?
400
looking for jobs
Why have people migrated to the cities
400
situations that have made it hard for the government to control Afghanistan
What are ethnic and political rivalries in the country?
500
the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
500
Oil and water
what are the regions two most important natural resources