The Arabian Peninsula Chapter 22, Section 1

Vocabulary

•Mecca

•Islam

•Muhammad

•mosque

•theocratic

•OPEC

Human Perspective

Islam Changes the Desert Culture

• A trading society

•Oases and caravans

• Bedouins

• Islamic Culture Unites Arabs

• Five Pillars

• Faith, Prayer, Charity, Fasting (Ramadan), Pilgrimage (Hajj)

Government Changes Hands

• Theocracy

• European Influence

• Saudi Arabia

What keeps the United States from being a theocracy?

Oil Dominates the Economy

•Oil Dependent

•OPEC

Is having oil deposits good for a country?

Modern Arabic Life• Tradition vs. Progress

• Supermarkets

• Increased Urbanization

• Foreign Workers

• Everything Stops for Prayer

• ‘Id al-Fitr

•The most important city for the Islamic faith is...

•a. Istanbul

•b. Mecca

•c. Baghdad

•d. Cairo

•The organization that was designed to fix oil prices is...

•a. OPEC

•b. NATO

•c. USSR

•d. Oilpricefix r’ us

•Who rules Saudi Arabia?

•a. the Ayatollah

•b. the Pope

•c. members of the Saud family

•d. Mullah Abdullah