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What is the word given to the study of the earth?
Geography
What was the year in which the modern state of Israel was created?
1948
THE ART OF MAKING MAPS IS CALLED…?
Cartography
IT USES SYMBOLS OR PICTURES TO COMPARE STATISTICS
Pictograph
Turkey’s largest city is ...?
Istanbul
Name given to temporary rivers in Saudi Arabia
Wadis
What is the name of the birthplace of Mohammed?
Mecca
What is the name of Syria´s capital?
Damascus
Iraq is the home of the once-mighty city of ...?
Babylon
What are two historic sites that help the industry of tourism in Jordan?
Petra and Roman ruins
What is even today Lebanon’s greatest challenge?
To rebuild Beirut
The militant organization originally led by Yassir Arafat
It was a terrorist organization aimed at creating an umbrella system to unite Palestinian Arabs who wanted to recover Palestine from Israel
What is PLO?
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
What is an Islamic mosque (temple) that stands on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem called?
The Dome of the Rock
What is the capital of Israel for the Israeli people?
What is the capital of Israel for most most foreign governments?
Jerusalem
Tel aviv
Three of the largest islands on earth are...?
Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea
What is the name of the mount that the Bible identifies as the place where Noah's ark came to rest after the Flood? It is located in Turkey.
What is the world’s largest archipelago (island chain)?
The Malay Archipelago
What is the name of the most important river in the western Fertile Crescent?
The Jordan River
What is the name of the place where Mohammed founded Islam around A.D. 600.?
Medina
What is the nomadic group of people of the desert called?
Bedouins
How do people often refer to Israel?
The Holy Land
What is Syria’s largest industries?
Agriculture
Who are the Arab people that the Jews must contend with along with the surrounding Arab nations?
The Palestinians
How long did the people of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan live under the Communist domination of the Soviet Union?
For 70 years before the Soviet empire collapsed in 1991
What are Syria’s chief rivers?
The Orontes and The Euphrates