EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?
Engage:
- Central Turkey Rick Steves (25:03)
- The Best of Israel Rick Steves
- Palestine Rick Steves
- Iran: Tehran and Side-Trips Rick Steves
- Egypt's Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor Rick Steves
- Egypt's Cairo Rick Steves
Explore:
- A Crossroads fo the World
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
- Regional Conflict
- Tensions within Islam
- Uniting Trends
- Many Ethnicities and Languages
- Kurdistand: A Nation without a Country
Explain:
- What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
- How did Judaism begin?
- How did Christianity become the world's largest religion?
- How did Islam become the dominant religion in the region?
- What are the roots of the conflict in Israel?
- What conflicts exist within Islamic communities?
- What are the cultural elements that unite North Africa and Southwest Asia?
- How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?
- How have ethnic differences led to conflict in the Kurdish regions of Southwest Asia?
Evaluate:
- Vocabulary
- fertile
- Gaza Strip
- Nile River
- Dead Sea
- Golan Heights
- Sahara
- Giza
- Black Sea
- Fertile Crescent
- Sumer
- Mecca
- Tigris and Euphrates River
- Aswan Dam
- West Bank
- Mesopotamia
- Sinai Peninsula
- Silk Road
- Mansa Musa
- Nubia
- Babylon
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