Most Egyptians live within 20 miles of this physical feature.
What is the Nile River?
100
Formerly known as Persia, this country had a revolution in 1979 at which time they captured many American diplomats and held them hostage for more than a year.
What is Iran?
100
Algiers is know for these areas of narrow streets and bazaars.
What are Casbahs?
100
Jordan's desert, tent-dwelling nomads.
Who are the Bedouins?
100
These mountains extend across Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
What are the Caucasus Mountains?
200
These provide water to Libya.
What are aquifers?
200
This policy forced Qaddafi to change his plan of action regarding support of terrorism and trying to obtain nuclear weapons.
What are trade sanctions?
200
The Moroccan king heads up this form of government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
200
This home to Jews and Palestinians declared statehood in 1948.
What is Israel?
200
Landlocked and mountainous, this country is famous for the Khyber Pass and the Hindu Kush.
What is Afghanistan?
300
The two largest cities in Libya.
What are Tripoli and Bengazi?
300
A Muslim group in Lebanon that clashed with Israel in 2006 and are unfriendly to the U.S.
What is Hezbollah?
300
One of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.
What is Damascus?
300
Built as a Christian Church in the AD 500's, it became a mosque in 1453 and is now a museum.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
300
This cash crop has had a negative impact on the environment of Uzbekistan.
What is cotton?
400
This important waterway was built in the 1800's by Europeans and Egyptians.
What is the Suez Canal?
400
Tourism is important to the people of the "Land of the Setting Sun."
What is Morocco?
400
This capital city sits amid an oasis in Central Saudi Arabia.
What is Riyadh?
400
Two areas where most Palestinians live in Israel.
What are the Gaza Strip and the West Bank?
400
This country lies on many faults and therefore suffers from severe earthquakes.
What is Armenia?
500
Controlled releases of water allow farmers in Egypt to harvest more than one crop per year.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
500
Once the heart of the Ottoman Empire, this country has one of the few secular governments in the region.
What is Turkey?
500
This family established a monarchy that united many clans.
Who are the Saud family?
500
This ethnic group which lives in eastern Turkey, NE Iraq and western Iran continues to seek its own country.
Who are the Kurds?
500
This is a term for the ethnic cleansing or deliberate attempt to annihilate a whole group of people.