wgeo pt

_________ are Middle East princes who own large portions of the oil producing industry in the Middle East.

• ayatollahs

• caliphs

• sultans

• sheiks

______ has the largest amount of arable land in the Middle East.

• oman

• egypt

• israel

• turkey

The Arabic word “Islam” means __________.

• submission

• family

• follower of allah

• monsoon

The dominant culture in the Middle East is ________.

• persian culture

• arab culture

• israeli culture

• middle eastern culture

A majority of the landscape of the Middle East is ________.

• tropical rainforest

• coastal land

• mountain

• desert

The first civilization in the Middle East was established along the banks of the _______ River(s).

• Tigris-Euphrates

• Red

• Nile

• Jordan

________ Muslims believe that Imams are not perfect but are like other men.

• Canonical

• evolutionary

• shi'ite

• sunni

Many oil producing countries have used their new wealth to do what?

• increase car production

• increased the farm production

• increase modernization

• all of them

• none of them

________ and Jerusalem are important cities for religion and tourism.

• damascus

• makkah

• kuwait city

• sanaa

Most of the rural people in the Middle East work as ______.

• shepherds

• farmers

• merchants

• priests