Middle East Vocab

Arabian Peninsula

• lots of deserts
• saudi arabia
• the US has lots of terrain types as well

Arabs

• people that are islam and live in arabia
• arabia
• some people in US may believe in islam

Kurds

• Smallest ethnic group in iraq
• iraq, iran
• US had a war with Iraq because they raided Kuwait

Shia

• muslims that believe that only certain leaders can teach islam
• iran
• people like this maybe live in the US

Sunni

• believe ability of majority of people to define islam

OPEC

• organization that influences price of oil by supply control 
• Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran
• US gets a lot of oil from this supply