1. SS7G8 The student will describe the diverse cultures of the people who live in Southwest Asia (Middle East).
a. Explain the differences between an ethnic group and a religious group.

2. What do you look like? Is your Ethnicity Kurd Arab Persian Bedouin
Jewish
Kurd

3. What do you say?
Language is your Ethnicity

4. Arab
Most are Sunni Muslim
Most of the population of the Middle East

5. Most of the population of the Middle East

6. Judaism
4,000 year old Ethnic Group who practices Judaism and lives Mainly in Israel

7. Bedouin
Nomadic sheep and camel herders who speak Arabic and practice Sunni Islam

8. Kurds
Minority group that practices Sunni Islam and lives in Syria, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq
They have their own language and many want their own State.

9. Persians
Very old Ethnic group (at least 2,000 years old) most of whom are Shi’ite (Shia) Muslim
They have their own language (Persian) and their own State-Iran.