AKS 44b: Ethnic Groups of Southwest Asia

Front

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

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False

Front

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

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Arabs

Front

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

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Kurds

Front

Arabs only live in the Middle East.

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False

Front

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

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True

Front

Most Arabs speak Arabic.

Back

True

Front

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

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Persians

Front

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

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Farsi

Front

This ethnic group that lives in Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq was once semi-nomadic.

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Kurds

Front

The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without: their own country.

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their own country.