| A | B |
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| OPEC | what was formed by the Gulf States in the 1950's when low oil prices made payments to to be cut to oil producing countries |
| 90% | what % of Egypt's people live in the Nile Delta |
| Sunni and Shia | what are the dominant sects of Iraq called(2) |
| Saudi Arabia | The Unified Kingdom of __ __ was established in 1932 |
| Taliban | who had control in Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion |
| Rivers | most people live along seacosta and __ in N Africa,SW Asia and Central Asia |
| Islam | artistic depictions of living figures are discouraged in this religion |
| Hearths | one of the worlds 1st cultural __ the Fertile Cresent, developed b/t the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
| Ottoman | which Empire rules much odf the Eastern Mediterranean world for more than 600 years |
| Iraq | 2001, this government was overthrown by the US because it sheltered terrorists |
| Palestinians | who wanted an independant state of their own in the West Bank and Gaza Strip area |
| Cairo | what is Egypt's primate city called |
| Nationalism | what idea jelped develop many countries in N Africa in the 1800's |
| Mediterranean | Judaism,Christianity, and Islam are 3 religions founded in the eastern __ |
| Monothesian | all 3 major religions in the area share a belief in __ |
| Mesopotania | 1st major civilization, established year round farming and cuneiform writing were the Sumerians |
