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Chapter 18 Study Guide

Locate the Elburz Mountains.

Locate the Zagros Mountains.

Locate the Gulf of Aden.

Why is Istanbul a major trading center?

What are Shiites and Sunnis?  What is the cause of their disagreements?

What did Israel gain from the wars of 1948 - 1974?

Damascus was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a _______.

What country is the Hindu Kush found in?

What is Iraq’s second-largest group of people?

Which Middle Eastern country has the largest oil reserves?

What is the only city in the world located on two continents?

Who preserved the works of the ancient Greeks and Romans?

What is the saltiest and lowest body of water in the world?

What is Iraq’s economy based on?

What do Turkey’s people consider themselves to be? (I.e. American and Asian, European and American)

What Southwest Asian country has land in both Europe and Asia?

Under Kemal Ataturk, what did Turkey become?

What city in Southwest Asia is visited by millions of Muslims each year?

What did the Law of Return increase?

What is the most industrialized country in Southwest Asia?

From 1975 until 1991, what Arab country had an ongoing civil war?