SW Asia's Ethnic Groups Review Questions

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

• Religious group

• Ethnic group

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

• Religious Group

• Ethnic Group

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

• Islam

• Christianity

• Judaism

Most Arabs are followers of which religion?

• Sunni Islam

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Shia Islam

Which ethnic group is trying to create its own country?

• Arabs

• Kurds

• Persians

Which modern day country is home to Persians?

• Iraq

• Iran

• Afghanistan

Which ethnic group is the most numerous in Southwest Asia?

• Kurds

• Persians

• Arabs

What language do Persians speak?

• Persian

• Farsi

• Arabic

• Kurdish

Most Kurds practice ______Islam, While most Persians practice ________ Islam.

• Sunni, Shia

• Shia, Sunni

True or False? Arabs, Persians and Kurds all live in roughly the same region of the world and are virtually the same people except they live in different countries.

• True

• False