A resource plentiful and abundant in the region
What is oil?
This is the city that Muslims are required to pilgrimage to at least once in their lives.
Where is Mecca?
The group that has occupied parts of Afghanistan for the past two decades (and now largely controls the country).
Who is the Taliban?
The peninsula that was fought over by Egypt and Israel, features the Suez canal.
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
This waterway runs through much of Eastern Africa
What is the Nile River?
These are the holy sites for each of the three monotheistic religions that are located in Jerusalem
What are the Western/Wailing Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulcre, and the Dome of the Rock
The Fertile Crescent
The name of the month in the Islamic calendar which Muslims fast during (also known as Sawm)
What is Ramadan?
The group that Osama bin Laden was formerly a part of?
What is the Mujahadeen?
The negotiations between Egypt and Israel in 1979 took place here.
This country borders Saudi Arabia to the southeast
What is Yemen?
This capital of Iran.
What is Tehran?
This cube is located in the holy city of Mecca
What is the Kaaba?
Many Afghani farmers turned to this cultivating plant which can be used to make opium
What are poppy seeds?
Evangelical Christians support the institution of Israel primarily for this reason.
This city is known as what
What is Jerusalem?
This is a waterway in the Middle East.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
This sect of Islam believed that Mohammad's successor should be someone that Mohammad chooses.
What are the Sunni?
This former country invaded Afghanistan during the 1980s.
What is the Soviet Union?
The name of the Palestinian territory that borders the Jordan River
What is the West Bank?
This waterway separates Iran and Saudi Arabia
What is the Persian Gulf?
This is a country in North Africa
What is Tunisia?
ISIS is an acronym for this.
What is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
The road that connects 4 different cities throughout Afghanistan which was never completed
The Ring Road
The landmark that divides East and West Jerusalem
What is the Green Line?
A peninsula in modern day Turkey
What is the Anatolian Peninsula?