This Empire sided with the losers of WWI, leading to the European partitioning of Southwest Asia
What is the Ottoman Empire?
100
This country is a theocratic republic based on Islamic Law. The Supreme Leader has final say on all matters.
What is Iran?
100
Saudi Arabia is the world's leading producer of this product
What is Oil?
100
The predominate ethnic group in Iran
What is Persian?
200
The landlocked country we studied in the Middle East (Southwest Asia)
What is Afghanistan?
200
The Holocaust, Zionism, and Anti-Semetism all led to the creation of the modern state of Israel in this year
What is 1948?
200
This distribution of power in Israel gives all power to the central government, most likely because of its small size.
What is Unitary?
200
95% of the oil industry in Saudi Arabia is controlled by the government. Saudi Arabia falls on this side of the economic continuum
What is Command?
200
This term means the belief in one god
What is Monotheism?
300
This resource is scarce in the Middle East and North Africa. The unequal distribution of this resource can be a source of conflict between neigboring countries.
What is Water?
300
This group of Arabs in Israel have ancestral claims to the land, just like the Jews do.
What are the Palestinians?
300
This country we studied in Southwest Asia has a king and is based on Islamic Law.
What is Saudi Arabia?
300
The group that controls the price of oil through manipulating the supply
What is OPEC?
300
The process of removing salt from water
What is Desalination?
400
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all share this person as their patriarch
Who is Abrham?
400
Iraq invaded this oil-rich country and prompted our first war in the Persian Gulf
What is Kuwait?
400
Democratic form of government where the power resides in the legislative branch
What is Parliamentary?
400
A limitation on the number goods that can be imported
What is Quota?
400
This prophet founded the religion of Islam in 622 AD in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
What is Muhammed?
500
Of the 2 main divisions in Islam, this is the smallest of the 2
What is Shia?
500
The name of the Islamic extremist group that controlled the government of Afghanistan until we invaded
What is Taliban?
500
The name given to Israel's unicameral legislative branch
What is Knesset?
500
This name is given to the work force, particularly the education and training of a country's work force
What is Human Capital?
500
The name given to the disputed area on the Mediterranean coast, near the southeastern part of Israel