AKS 44b: Ethnic Groups of Southwest Asia

True or False: People who belong to the same ethnic group have the same or similar beliefs.

• True

• False

Check all of the characteristics that make up ethnicity.

• Common ancestry

• Common Culture

• Common Customs

• Common beliefs

Which ethnic group makes up 90% of Southwest Asia's population?

• Persians

• Muslims

• Arabs

• Kurds

Which ethnic group is considered a minority in Southwest Asia and lost their homeland?

• Arabs

• Persians

• Kurds

• Palestinians

Check all the options that represent Southwest Asian ethnic groups.

• Muslims

• Persians

• Christians

• Kurds

Arabs only live in the Middle East.

• True

• False

Not all Arabs are Muslim, and not all Muslims are Arabs.

• True

• False

Most Arabs speak Arabic.

• True

• False

This ethnic group makes up about half of Iran's current population.

• Kurds

• Persians

• Arabs

• none of the above

Persians speak this language - one of the oldest languages still spoken today.

• Hebrew

• Arabic

• Farsi

• none of the above