SW Asia Checkpoint

Why have people moved away from the deserts in SW Asia and to the cities? (TWO ANSWERS)

• The cities are near the rivers

• Oil and Industries growing in the area

• War/Conflict

• Incorrect: people have stayed in the deserts

Why are Cities built near the rivers in SW Asia?

• There is access to oil

• To get away from the war/conflict

• To take advantage of the water resources

• Cities are built in the deserts, not the rivers

An Ethnic Group is a group of people who share a __________________

• Common Culture

• Belief System

A Religious Group is a group of people who share ____________________

• Common Culture

• Belief System

Which Ethnic Group is of the HIGHEST population in SW Asia?

• Kurds

• Arabs

• Jews

• Persians

Where do MOST Kurds live?

• Turkey

• Syria

• Iran

• Iraq

Persians live in the current country of ___________

• Iran

• Iraq

• Afghanistan

• Syria

Arabs, Kurds, and Persians all follow _______________

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

• Buddhism

Kurds mostly speak Arabic

• True

• False

Arabs believe they are the descendants of ___________

• Medes (ancient Iranians)

• They lived in Iran for a long time

• Abraham and his son Ishmael

• Europeans