Chapter 9 Slideshow

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2. If you lived there....
You are in a plane flying over the vast
desert areas of the Arabian Peninsula. As
you look down, you see some tents of
desert nomads around trees of an oasis.
Sometimes you can see a truck or a line of
camels crossing the dry, rocky terrain. A
shiny oil pipeline stretches for miles in the
distance.
What is life like for people in the desert?

4. Climate and Vegetation
Desert Climate:
Empty Quarter:
Oasis:
Wadis:
Fossil Water
Oil:

5. SHIA SUNNI

6. SAUDI ARABIA
Government & Economy
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy
OPEC: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
An international organization whose members
work to influence the price of oil on world
markets by controlling the supply.

7. KUWAIT
Oil has made Kuwait very rich.
Persian Gulf War
Ruled by a royal family but have an elected
legislature.

8. BAHRAIN & QATAR
Bahrain is a monarchy with a legislature. They
are a rich country due to oil, banking, and
tourism.
Qatar is ruled by a powerful monarch. They are
wealthy due to oil and natural gas.

9. THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Seven tiny kingdoms make up the UAE.
Profits from oil and natural gas have made them
all wealthy.

10. OMAN & YEMEN
Oman's economy is based on oil...
they are attempting to develop new
industries.
Yemen has an elected government but it
suffers from corruption.
Oil and coffee generate much of their
income.
It is the poorest country on the Arabian
Peninsula .

11. Iraq
Saddam Hussein:
United Nations:
Embargo:

12. Iraq & 9/11
U.S. government officials believed that Iraq
aided terrorists.
March 2003: President Bush ordered U.S.
forces to attack Iraqi targets.
Weeks later the Iraqi army was defeated and
Saddam's government was crushed.

13. Peoples & Culture
There are two major ethnic groups:
1. Arabs: They make up more than 75% of Iraq's population.
They speak the country's official language- Arabic.
2. Kurds: Make up 15-20% of the population. They are
farmers and live in a large region in northern Iraq.
They speak both Kurdish and Arabic.
Nearly all Iraqis (both Arab and Kurdish) are
Muslim

14. Iran
Shah:
Revolution:
Farsi:
Theocracy: