Chapter 18 Homework: The Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Iran, & Afghanistan (pages 394-411)
Name ______
12 Point Option Section 1: Physical Geography
1. Which two countries from this chapter appear to be the most mountainous?
2. What kind of climate covers most of this region?
3. What resource is very scarce in this region?
4. What energy resource is abundant in this region which helps the economies of these countries greatly?
Section 2: The Arabian Peninsula
5. The main religion of this region is Islam. Who is the person who founded Islam?
6. Muslims do not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God like Christians do. Instead they believe in Mohammed, who they believe was the messenger of God. People who follow the religion of Islam are called what?
7. What is the main difference between Christians and Muslims.
8. List the five Pillars of Islam
A. B. C. D. E.
9. Christians have a holy book called the Bible. What is the holy book for Muslims?
10. What language is the holy book of Islam written in?
11. What is the big product that Saudi Arabia has that the United States buys a lot of?
12. Almost all people from Saudi Arabia are from what ethnic group?
13. Christians around the world go to church on Sunday as that is the Christian holy day or sabbath. What is the holy day of the week for Muslims?
14. The countries of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen are also on the Arabian Peninsula. What religion are all of these countries?
15. Both Bahrain and Qatar rely on what resource for income? 16. What is the main thing that the United Arab Emirates relies on for income?
17. What is Oman’s economy dependent on?
18. Which country is the poorest of all the countries on the Arabian Peninsula?
Section 3: Iraq
19. What religion are most of the people of Iraq?
Section 4: Iran and Afghanistan
20. The ancient kingdom of Persia is now what country?
21. Iran’s government has a policy that calls for the destruction of a nearby country. Which country do they want to destroy?
22. What is the language of most people in Iran?
23. What is the religion of most people in Iran?
24. Almost all people of Afghanistan are of what religion?
25. What is special about Mecca to Muslims?
16 Point Option Section 1: Physical Geography
26. What is the biggest sand desert in the world?
27. In what country would you find this largest sand desert?
28. What is a wadi?
Section 2: The Arabian Peninsula 29. Just like there are different types of Christianity (Catholics, Protestants), there are different types of Islam as well. What is the largest group of Islam?
30. What is the second largest group of Islam?
31. Saudi Arabia is a fairly strict Muslim nation where there are quite a few laws regarding women. Name two laws that restrict what women can do.
32. How are women required to dress in Saudi Arabia?
33. Why is it that the tiny of country of Kuwait is fairly wealthy?
Section 3: Iraq
34. When did Saddam Hussein come to power in Iraq? 35. What is an embargo?
36. What may it take years to rebuild from the war in Iraq?
Section 4: Iran and Afghanistan
37. Iran is a theocracy. What is a theocracy?
38. That means that every law in Iran is based upon what religion?
39. Name five common foods in Iran.
40. In the mid 1990’s a radical group called the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. There were a very strict Muslim group. Give an example of what the Taliban required of women.
41. Why did the United States attack Afghanistan in 2001?
42. The bridge in the picture on page 399 connects what two countries?
20 Point Option Section 1: Physical Geography
43. In ancient times, what was the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers called?
Section 2: The Arabian Peninsula
44. Who gets chosen for most of the government jobs in Saudi Arabia?
45. What is the name of the type of government where a king makes all the decisions and there is no written constitution?
46. Saudi Arabia is one of the few Arab countries that has a good relationship with the United States, most Arab nations hate us. What did Saudi Arabia allow us to do during the Persian Gulf War after Iraq invaded Kuwait?
47. Why is it that the good relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia became strained after the September 11th terrorist attacks?
48. What common thing (that we use every day) was first widely used by the Muslims and then introduced to the Europeans? That is how we learned how to use this system.
49. Both Bahrain and Qatar have what types of governments?
50. What does the United Arab Emirates have more of than they do citizens? 51. Saudi Arabia was a very poor country until oil was discovered along the Persian Gulf in the 1930s. The income from oil gave Saudi Arabia’s government enough money to build a lot of things. List three things that the government built that increased the standard of living for all people in Saudi Arabia.
52. Saudi Arabia now also had the income to build schools. What happened to the literacy rate of Saudi Arabia because of this?
53. Many foreign workers came to Saudi Arabia to work in the oil industry. What is a foreign worker?
Section 3: Iraq
54. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. An alliance of countries including the United States and the United Kingdom came to the aid of Kuwait. Why were so many countries concerned about Iraq invading Kuwait?
55. Why did the United States invade Iraq again, this time in 2003. This is the invasion that you might remember. Why did we invade this time?
Section 4: Iran and Afghanistan
56. In 1979, a mob of people from Iran attacked whose embassy?