DYNASTIES AND COUNTRIES AND ITS

Discovering the West

CIVILIZATIONS FORMED CAPITAL
MESOPOTAMIA SUMERIAN
ARMENIA YEREVAN
AZERBAIJAN BAKU
BAHRAIN MANAMA

CIVILIZATION? YAY! IT'S A FACT!

CYPRUS NICOSIA
AKKADIAN BABYLONIAN GEORGIA T'BILISI
CRADLE OF THESE OLDEST BAGHDAD
FERTILE CRESCENT IS THE
IRAQ
JERUSALEM
Did You Know?

ISRAEL
JORDAN AMMAN
KUWAIT KUWAIT
PHOENICIAN HITTITE LEBANON BEIRUT
OMAN MUSCAT
PALESTINE DISPUTED STATE

ASIA:
QATAR DOHA
SAUDI ARABIA RIYADH
ASSYRIAN CHALDEAN DAMASCUS
Region of the
SYRIA
TURKEY ANKARA
U. A. E. ABU DHABI
YEMEN

SANA'A
Rising Sun
LOCATION
Did You Know?

TOURIST ATTRACTION Asia is boarded on the north by the

Arctic Ocean, on the east by Bering
Strait, and the Pacific Ocean, on the
south by the Indian Ocean, and on the
west by the Red Sea and
NOVA E. ENAJE Mediterranean Sea.
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BSEd 2 Social Studies GENEALOGY

Bicol University Gubat Campus ASIA comes from the word SUNRISE
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Referred as ASU (ascend), or ASA (east).
https://bit.ly/3XGbN8N The direction of sunrise.
Burj Khalifa is the tallest tower in
the world! Located at Dubai,
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4,735,826,708
https://bit.ly/3Fd9tiu Current Population as of
United Arab Emirates ranging 828 https://bit.ly/3UeCazO
November 25, 2022, 6:58 pm.
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m, 830 m to tip! https://n.pr/3XFgpvR Credits to the design attribution of Canva. Data from: worldometer.info
 WEST ASIA
DEMOGRAPHICS
LOCATION
West Asia is boarded by Mediterranean Sea,
and Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) on the west,
POPULATION AND
The current population of Western
Asia is 289,895,549 as of Friday,
November 25, 2022, based on the
latest United Nations estimates.
HISTORICAL PLACES
FAMOUS PERSON
Saladin ended the 88-year
European hold on
Jerusalem, after destroying
the Christian army in the
Battle of Hattin, in 1187.
King Abdul Aziz al Saud
is the founder and first king
of Saudi Arabia. Kept his
tribes and his forces largely
sidelined during World War.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Khomeini achieved ayatollah
status in the 1950s; he
preached a combination of
Iranian nationalism and Islamic
fundamentalism.

European countries and Caucasus region at TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES Gamal Abdel Nasser
the north, Red Sea by the south, and Indian RIVER Nationalist leader of Egypt. As
Ocean as well as Persian Gulf at the an Egyptian military officer,
The Tigris and Euphrates, two enormous
southeast. he fought in the 1948 war
rivers, served as the banks on which Ancient
LAND AREA
that saw Israel become an
6.27 million km (12% of Asia Mesopotamia's civilization developed. The

independent nation in much
people of Mesopotamia depended on these
SUB REGIONS rivers to provide drinking water, agricultural
of what had been British-
ARABIAN PENINSULA controlled Palestine.
irrigation, and important transportation
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
routes in the midst of a large desert. MAJOR RELIGIONS
FERTILE CRESCENT Did You Know?
Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and the
Fertile Crescent is the Birth
Syrian Arab Republic.
SOUTH CAUCASUS of the World's Oldest
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia Religions? Yay! That's a Fact!
EXCLUDED IN SUB REGIONS Among those religion are
Cyprus and Turkey Christianity, Islam, and
Judaism.