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World Geography - The Middle East Chapter 16
1. Describe location
2. Identify important features
3. Identify cultures
4. Describe the economy
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| Iran | capital, Tehran |
| Iraq | capital, Baghdad |
| Israel | capital, Jerusalem |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh |
| Yemen | capital, Sanaa |
| Jordan | capital, Amman |
| levant | coastal farming region of Syria, Lebanon and Israel |
| fertile crescent | rich far land between Tigris and Euphrates River |
| monotheism | a belief in only one God |
| most people in Middle East speak | Arabic |
| most valuable of middle east | oil |
| Syria and Jordan | have large poverty unemployment |
| biggest problem | shortage of water |
| Organization of Petroleum | OPEC |
| OPEC | tries to control the world's oil |
| desertification | farmland changes into desert |
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