Chapter 22 Flashcards
What is the holiest city of Islam?
Mecca
What nomadic desert dwellers moved across the Arabian Peninsula, spreading Islam?
The Bedouins
What monotheistic religion is based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad?
Islam
Who was Muhammad?
Allah’s messenger
What are the five pillars of Islam?
Faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage
What is an Islam place of worship?
Mosque
What type of government is controlled by religious leaders?
Theocracy
What is the Arabian Peninsula’s principle resource?
Oil
What organization helps members control worldwide oil prices by adjusting oil prices and production quotas?
OPEC
What percentage of Saudi Arabia’s population is urbanized?
83%
How many times a day are Muslims expected to pray?
5
What marks the end of Ramadan?
‘Id al-Fitr
What three religions claim Jerusalem as a holy city?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
What once housed Judaism’s earliest temples?
The Temple Mount
What’s the portion of the Second Temple where Jews come to pray called?
Western Wall
What shrine houses the spot where Muslims believe Muhammad rose to heaven?
The Dome of the Rock
What is the movement to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine?
Zionism
What organization was formed to regain Palestine for Arabs?
The Palestine Liberation Organization
What ethnic group makes up the majority of Lebanese Muslims?
Shi’ites
Where do Bedouins live?
The Negev Desert
Where do Christians following the Baha’i faith live?
Israel
Who are the Kurds?
An ethnic group in Southwest Asia
Where was Mesopotamia?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Which empire brought along the use of iron weapons?
The Hittites
What are the two divisions of Muslims?
Sunni and Shi’ites
What’s the difference between the Sunni and Shi’ite?
The Sunnis believe the next caliphate should be a descendant of Muhammad while the Shi’ites believe it should be the strongest member of the strongest tribe.
What percentage of Muslims are Sunni?
83%
What country has the largest refugee population worldwide?
Iran
What discovery made Iran a center of conflict?
The discovery of oil
How did Iran start the Persian Gulf War?
By invading Kuwait
The United States and how many other nations fought to drive Iran out of Kuwait?
32
Why did the United States topple the Taliban regime?
It supported terrorism.
What was the Taliban?
A Muslim political group.
Who are unskilled laborers recruited from outside a country to fill jobs a region’s people find unacceptable?
Guest workers
What is a nation without a land to legally occupy known as?
A stateless nation
What are Arabs and their descendants living in the area formerly known as Palestine called?
Palestinians
What’s the strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River?
The West Bank
What’s the territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula?
The Gaza Strip
What is “black gold”?
Oil
What is a resource so important that nations will go to war to ensure it’s steady supply?
Strategic commodity
What percentage of the world’s oil is found in Southwest Asia?
64%
What percentage of the world’s natural gas is found in Southwest Asia?
34%
What are the skills and talents of a nation’s people known as?
Human resources
