Southwest Asia’s Ethnic Groups

What is a community of people sharing a common culture, ancestry,customs, and language known as ?

• Persian group

• Religious group

• Ethnic group

• Arabs

What is a group of people who Share a belief system in a god or gods known as ?

• Ethnic group

• Real people

• Arabs

• Religious group

Which religion do most of the people of Southwest Asia follow?

• Christianity

• Islam

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• Arabic

Most Arabs are followers of which religion?

• Sunni Islam

• Christianity

• Shi’a Islam

• Budhism

Which ethnic group is trying to create its own country?

• Persian

• Kurds

• Arabs

• Americans

Which modern day country is home to Persians?

• Iran

• Iraq

• Turkey

• Canada

Which ethnic group is most numerous in southwest Asia?

• Persian

• Arabs

• Christians

• Kurds

What language do Persians speak?

• English

• Arabic

• Kurdish

• Farsi (Persian)

Most Kurds practice —————-Islam, while most Persians practice——————Islam?

• Muslim, Shi’a

• Sunni, Shi’a

• Shi’a, Sunni

• Islam, Sunni

True or false and why; “Arabs, Persians, and Kurds all live in roughly the same region of the world and are the same people except they live in different countries”

• True, because they have many things in common

• True , because they have the same religion

• False, because they don’t have anything in common

• False, because they all live in the same country