Chapter 19-The Persain Gulf and Interior

Question 0

Oasis

Answer 0

A place where a spring bubbles to the surface in desert areas and plants grow

Question 1

Exotic rivers

Answer 1

Rivers that begin in humid regions and then flow across dry areas

Question 2

Dynasty

Answer 2

Line of hereditary rulers

Question 3

Imams

Answer 3

Muslim religious leaders

Question 4

Ayatollahs

Answer 4

Religious leaders of the highest authority among Shai Muslims

Question 5

Theocracy

Answer 5

A country governed by religious law

Question 6

What countries are in the Persian Gulf and interior Southwest Asia? (7)

Answer 6

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Question 7

What are the Persian Gulf and interior Southwest Asia also known as?

Answer 7

The Middle East

Question 8

Where does the Arabian peninsula lie?

Answer 8

Between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf

Question 9

What is happening to the Red Sea as the African and Arabian tectonic plates move apart?

Answer 9

It is becoming wider

Question 10

What ancient civilization lies in the Arabian peninsula?

Answer 10

Mesopotamia

Question 11

What are the mountains of Iran?

Answer 11

Zagros

Question 12

Where are the Hindu Kush mountains located?

Answer 12

Afghanistan

Question 13

Why are the low lands in Saudi Arabia among the hottest places in the world?

Answer 13

Because of subtropical high pressure with clear skies and little shade

Question 14

What are the main sources of water for Iraq?

Answer 14

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question 15

What is the regions most valuable resource?

Answer 15

Oil

Question 16

Who built the first civilization, Mesopotamia? Where?

Answer 16

The Sumerians. The Fertile Crescent.

Question 17

Who created the first empire? Around what time?

Answer 17

The Akkadians. Around 2350 B.C.

Question 18

When was the rise of Islam?

Answer 18

The late A.D. 500s

Question 19

What is the unifying element of the area?

Answer 19

Islam

Question 20

What is the major race in the area? What is their language?

Answer 20

Arabs. Arabic

Question 21

Where do Kurds live?

Answer 21

In the borderlands of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey

Question 22

Where are the cultural diversities more complex?

Answer 22

Iran and Afghanistan

Question 23

What are most Iranians?

Answer 23

Persians

Question 24

What country is Pashtun most common?

Answer 24

Afghanistan