Answer:
The answer to the question: Countries in the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia and Iran, have acquired great wealth because of which natural resource? would be: Petroleum.
Explanation:
Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, was first discovered not in the U.S as most people believe, but in China, around 600 BC. However, its full discovery, and the discovery of all of its power and uses, and the turning of this resource into the main material for enormous companies, was first in 1859, by Colonel Drake in Pennsylvania and later on, the best known of all, in Texas, in 1901. Ever since then, and with the search for it, it was soon found that the countries of the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia, were owners of the biggest reserves of this mineral resource, aside from Venezuela. It has been this "black gold", which has allowed these Middle Eastern nations to thrive; or at least those who control the monopoly to thrive.
