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this product makes up over half of Saudi Arabia wealth
What is oil?
100
a portion of where Iraq is today lies on what used to be called this region
What is Mesopotamia?
100
this is what Iran used to be called
What is Persia?
100
the process of destroying forest
What is deforestation?
100
this product originated in the Arabian Peninsula
What is coffee?
200
the name of the Islamic holy city found in Saudi Arabia
What is Mecca?
200
in 1979, this man became president of Iraq and was a brutal dictator
Who is Saddam Hussein?
200
the title of a king or ruler of Iran
What is a shah?
200
the organization that controls and monitors oil prices
What is OPEC?
200
this is how the reader feels about the selection
What is mood?
300
this Saudi Arabia's biggest problem
What is a lack of water?
300
this ethnic group makes up about 75% of Iraq's population
What are Kurds?
300
Iran used to have this kind of government BEFORE 1979
What is a monarchy?
300
this is the Egyptian form of writing
What are hieroglyphics?
300
this is how the author feels about the selection
What is tone?
400
this was a Muslim based empire based in Turkey that lasted from the 1300s to 1922
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400
Iraq fought with this country over oil for eight years
What is Iran?
400
Iran retaliated against the United States with this when the US supported the shah of Iran
What is a hostage crisis?
400
the belief that there is only one god
What is monotheism?
400
this is another word for importance
What is significance?
500
these were the nomadic early inhabitants of Saudi Arabia
What are Bedouins?
500
this is the founder of Islam
Who is Muhhamad?
500
the US boycotted trade with Iran in 1995 because the US accused Iran of supporting these
What are terrorists?
500
a government ran by religious leaders
What is a theocracy?
500
author's use this to inform, entertain, or persuade you
What is author's purpose?