Transcript The Arabian Peninsula Turkey, Iran and Cyprus

THE ARABIAN PENINSULA
TURKEY, IRAN AND CYPRUS
Chapter 23
Sections 4 & 5
Arabian Peninsula
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Effects of Oil
 Health
and education services are free or heavily
subsidized by the oil-rich government
 Oil revenue used to build infrastructure – a country’s
basic support facilities, such as schools, roads, airports,
and communication systems
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Saudi Arabia and Islam
 Most
sacred cities – Mecca and Medina
 Two million visitors per year for the hajj – religious
journey to Mecca
Arabian Peninsula
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Oman and Yemen are different from other countries
on the Arabian Peninsula
 Life
for most of the people hasn’t changed since ancient
times
 Neither country has undergone large-scale
modernization
 People in both countries still farm and herd
Turkey, Iran, and Cyprus
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Challenges faced by Turkey today:
 Debt,
inflation, fighting between secular and Islamic
groups, Kurdish struggle for independence
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Iran:
 Persians
are the main cultural group in Iran
 Most Iranians belong to the Shiite group of Muslims
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Cyprus:
 4/5
Greek, 1/5 Turkish
 Civil War in Cyprus was between Greek Orthodox
Christians and Muslim Turks