Turkey
The sea directly north of this country.
What is the Black Sea?
Jerusalem.
What is the capital city of Israel?
Cairo.
What is the capital of this country?
Baghdad.
What is the capital of Iraq?
Riyadh.
A narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
A dry, rocky bed for a river.
What is a wadi?
A loose robe wore by Muslim women?
What is a burqa?
A pyramid-like tower, sometimes reaching as high as 300 feet (used to worship false gods).
Amman.
What is the capital of Jordan?
The highest mountain in this country.
What is Mount Ararat?
The saltiest body of water in the world.
What is the Dead Sea?
North-flowing Egyptian river.
What is the Nile River?
Recontructed by Saddam Hussein to glorify this country.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
A high tableland plateau, with immense pillars of massive granite and sandstone rock formations breaking up through the sands.
What is Wadi Rum or the Valley of the Moon?
Landforms created from deposits spewed forth from volcanoes on the Anatolian Plateau.
What are Fairy Chimneys?
The city in which Jesus grew up.
What is Nazareth?
Ancient Egyptians used these for written communication.
What is hieroglyphics?
A river that branches off from a major river before it meets the sea.
A pilgrimage required by every Muslim to the city of Mecca.
What is the hajj?
Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
What are the dominant religions of the world?
The place where thought to be Jesus' tomb.
What is the Holy Sepulchre?
Cario's garbage dump.
What is Mokattam?
The two main mountain chains that define it's borders with its neighboring countries.
What are the Taurus and Zagros Mountain ranges?
A rock city hidden behind a barrier of rugged mountains.
What is Petra?