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24 Cards in this Set
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The first civilizations in the world developed in an are known as the _______ ________
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Fertile Crescent
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By about 3000 BC people called the _________ built the world
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Sumerians
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The prophet ________ established Islam, one of the world's most widely practiced religions.
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Muhammad
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A holy book called the ______ contains what Muslims believe to be Allah's message to the prophet.
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Qur'an
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When Muslims pray they face _____, Islam's holiest city.
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Mecca
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Historians consider the rule of ________, which lasted more than 200 years, a golden age of Persian culture.
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Safavids
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In the 1500s the _______ Turks conquered Mesopotamia and the wast and west coasts of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Ottoman
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Most people in the Persian Gulf interior Southwest Asia today are Arabs , and ______ is the main language.
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Arabic
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A people known as the _____ have never had their own country, and their desire for self-rule us a source of political unrest in some countries.
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Kurds`
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Today about 85% of Muslims are _____ and 15% are Shia.
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Sunni
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The symbols that most of the modern world uses are to write numbers known as _____ numerals.
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Arabic
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The nomadic herders of the Arabian Desert (including the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt) are the ________.
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Bedouins
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A government dominated by Ayatollahs came to power in this country in 1979.
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Iran
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Fighting in this country has continued on and since the 1970s.
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Afghanistan
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This country is the world's largest exporter of oil.
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Saudi Arabia
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This country was ruled by a dictator named Saddam Hussein.
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Iraq
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A group called the Taliban came to power in this country in the 1990s.
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Afghanistan
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Today this country is a theocracy.
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Iran
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The country is the caretaker of Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
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Saudi Arabia
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This country invaded Kuwait in 1990 to capture its rich oil fields.
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Iraq
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Capital of Afghanistan.
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Kabul
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Capital of Iran
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Tehran
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Capital of Iraq
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Baghdad
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Capital of Saudi Arabia
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Riyadh
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