They had the ability to take inventions created elsewhere and use them on a much bigger scale.
After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power, which caused a reaction. Fundamentalist Islamic Sharia law was infused into Iranian government policies and <span>Muslim countries rejected and suppressed Islamic fundamentalists.</span>
Enotes is a good website that can help you and also answers.com
The best analogy that compares a relationship between synonyms or antonyms would be "<span>a. steal : take :: lend : loan" since synonyms and antonyms could be considered opposites, much like "stealing" and "loaning". </span>
Your teacher probably wants the countries along with the bodies of water in and surrounding it, try searching the title of the page and hit ‘images’ in goigke. You should be able to find a map labled clearly that looks almost just like yours