Middle East Study Guide 22-1

In 1960, a group of oil-producing nations, including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, established an organization to coordinate policies on selling _______ products.

Petroleum

Despite rapid modernization, some aspects of Muslim culture have remained the same over centuries. All Muslims are expected to perform certain activities. One of those duties is to _______ five times a day.

Pray

Fasting in the month of _______ is another duty that shapes the lives of Muslims.

Ramadan

Other cities in the Arabian Peninsula were ports where goods were exchanged from the _______ Roads in East Asia

Silk

The governments of lands controlled by Muslims were _______, which meant that religious leaders controlled the government.

Theocratic

There are duties to those who follow the teachings of the new religion called Islam. These basic duties are call the _______ of Islam.

5 pillars

On the Arabian Peninsula, a new power was rising. A daring leader, _______, consolidated power over large areas of this sub-region.

Abdul-Al Aziz

Armies of Muslim fighters moved across the desert, conquered lands, and put Muslim leaders in control. As a result, the _______ language spread across Southwest Asia.

Arabic

_______ Moved across the peninsula from oasis to oasis.

Bedouins

There was a small Muslim empire until the 1900s, when _______ took control of the majority of Southwest Asia

Britain

In the past, some towns in the Arabian Peninsula served as trade centers for _______ moving across the deserts.

Caravans

Changes in the nations of the Arabian Peninsula during the 20th century were dramatic. Millions of people abandoned their lives as villagers, farmers, and nomads and moved into _______

Cities

_______ Was also a country that participated in the breaking up of the Ottoman Empire

France

There was _______ Ocean trade from South Asia

Indian

The Bedouin's fighting skills would eventually help to spread a new religion that developed in the region, _______.

Islam

There was _______ Trade from Europe

Mediterranean

The monotheistic religion in the Arabian peninsula is based on the teachings of the Prophet _______.

Muhammed

The organization that exports petroleum in the Oil Producing nations is called _______

OPEC

Arabian Peninsula nations make almost all of their export money and a large share of their GDP from _______, so the price of that resource is important to them.

Oil

OPEC is short for _______

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

The times, in order, in which Muslims pray, are _______, _______, Mid-_______, _______, and before _______

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