Arabian Peninsula
Government=
monarchy (king is ruler)
has a close realtionship to the US (trade purposes)
Ethnicity = Arab, 85% Sunni Muslim
Iran
Afghanistan
Government is theocracy, (religious leaders rule Iran)
Persian, language in Iran
Ethnicity =
Persian, 90%
Shia Muslim Iran
Iraq
Once ruled by Ba'ath party (a dictatorship by Hussein)
Hussien captured by US,
now country has a parliamentary system
Limit women
Afghan-85% Sunni
Speak Arabic
Leaders appoint relatives to leader positions
Revolutions and uprisings,
much conflict
Practice Islam
Oil is major resource
The Middle East: Southwest Asia
Observations:
