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Lesson 2 History of Southwest Asia

Essential Question: Why do civilizations rise and fall?

Early Southwest Asia

Directions: Use your textbook to help you fill in the blanks.

1. Settlements (like villages and cities) that appeared in Mesopotamia about

10,000 years ago represent the world's first

.

2. Mesopotamian societies used a writing system called

.

3. Southwest Asia is considered a birthplace of world religions because

, all originated there.

, and

4. Islamic society expanded across Southwest Asia until the 1200s, when

from Europe established Christian states along the Mediterranean coast.

5. In the 1300s and 1400s a group of Muslim tribes called building an empire on the Anatolian Peninsula.

began

Modern Southwest Asia

Directions: Answer the questions about present-day issues facing

Southwest Asia.

1. What two countries were responsible for preparing the region for independence after the fall of the Ottoman Empire?

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2. What two groups in the region have been involved in a conflict over territory since 1948?

3. What three countries in the region experienced civil wars in the 1900s?

4. What group living in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and western Iran has fought to gain their own country?

5. In which country did a revolution in the late 1970s result in the overthrow of a monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic republic?

6. Which country invaded Iran in 1980 and started a war that lasted eight years?

7. What country did Iraq invade and annex in 1990, triggering the Persian Gulf War?

8. What was the name of the Islamist ruling group that supported alQaeda and sheltered its leaders after the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001?

9. What country in the region has introduced reforms as part of its efforts to gain membership into the European Union?

10. What countries experienced democracy movements in 2010 and 2011?

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