Go to the web site at http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/.

On that site you will find links to maps of Africa and Central Asia - Southwest Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  These maps will be useful for you in preparing!  Some are blank, others already are filled in.. Good luck!

1.  Using your atlas and the map on Duiker, page 296 to complete this assignment, print the map at the site above and know the following.  You will need to mark the cities, mountains and rivers on the map yourself!

Countries Syria Israel Lebanon Iran Iraq Oman Yemen Kuwait United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Eritrea Egypt Pakistan Afghanistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Kyrghizstan Kazakhstan Russia Azerbaijan Armenia Turkey Cyprus Bulgaria Jordan

Cities Mecca Medina Bagdad Teheran Kabul Jerusalem Tel-Aviv Beirut Amman Damascus Riyadh Ankara Tblisi Baku

Geographical Terms West Bank Gaza Strip Sinai Peninsula Golan Heights Mediterranean Sea Indian Ocean Arabian Sea Persian Gulf Red Sea Caspian Sea Black Sea Sea of Azov Volga River (draw) Suez Canal (draw) Arabian Peninsula Caucasus Mts. (draw) Indus range of the Himalayas (draw)

2.  List 5 members of OPEC.

3.  Define Sunni and Shi'ite.

4.  Know which of the countries above were formerly within the Ottoman Empire (you only need to identify those who were within the empire between 1878-1914).  Know which of the regions/countries above were mandates of France or Great Britain.
 

5.  Know which of the countries above were formerly within the Soviet Union.