Ethnic Groups of SW Asia Review

Majority of people in SW Asia are......

• Kurds

• Persians

• Arabs

• Christian

Kurds live in the mountainous region of...

• Turkey

• Iraq

• Syria

• Turkey, Iraq, and Syria

Most Kurds are Sunni Islam while most Persians are ______ Islam.

• Jews

• Christian

• Shia

A group of people who share a common spiritual belief.

• ethnic group

• religious group

Persians speak the Farsi language. This is an example of...

• a religious group

• a ethnic group

Persians are the primary ethnic group in.....

• Saudi Arabia

• Turkey

• Iran

• Syria

People in the same ethnic group sometimes practice the same religion but not always.

• True

• False

People who share the same ancestry and language are part of the same.....

• ethnic group

• religious group

Arabs, Persians, and Kurds all live in roughly the same region of the world and are virtually the same people.

• True

• False

Which ethnic group is being described: Language - Arabic, Religion - mostly Islam, Location - Arabian peninsula

• Kurds

• Persians

• Arabs