ORIENTAL RUG ZINE
ANSWERS TO QUIZ ONE
1.Africa (Egypt), Europe (Romania, etc.) and Asia
2.Eastern Turkey, the Southern Caucasus and Northwestern Iran are contiguous. Consequently they share ethnicity. For instance, Turkic speaking
people make rugs in all three areas. So do Kurdish people.
3.Turkey, Armenia,Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
4.The Turkmen spring from the Turkic speaking people who in the 13th century migrated westward from Siberia and Outer Mongolia across the
Central Asian Steppes. Some settled in Northern Afghanistan, others in Turkmenistan, northern Iran and Turkey - all of these places being along the path of their migration.
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