Map Questions
This is the modern day country that Mesopotamia was located in, since it has the Tigris and Euphrates flowing through it.
What is Iraq?
The 3 main religions that originated in the Middle East.
What is Islam, Judaism, and Christianity?
The empire that named the area Palestine.
Who is Rome? (Roman Empire)
The final empire in the Middle East that fell apart after WWI.
This piled up on the ocean floor and eventually turned into oil after compression.
What is dead organic matter?
What is dead plants/animals?
The other main river in the Middle East other than the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is the Nile?
DAILY DOUBLE
The predominant religion in the Middle East.
What is Islam?
The spreading of Jews outside of Israel.
What is the Jewish Diaspora?
The first Islamic Caliphate that ruled from 661-750 A.D.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
Middle East country that is a significant U.S. ally despite their human rights violations and the Crown Prince's crimes.
Who is Saudi Arabia?
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The empire that destroyed the Jewish temple and led to the Diaspora.
Who is Rome? (Roman Empire)
The country that granted support for a Jewish home in Israel by writing the Balfour Declaration.
Who is Great Britain?
The Islamic Caliphate that ushered in the "Golden Age of Islam".
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
The type of government that Saudi Arabia has.
The cardinal direction that Lebanon is located from Israel.
What is north?
The chronological order that the 3 religions of the Middle East began in the world.
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
The definition of Zionism.
What is the biblical right of Jews to live in Israel?
The 2 main types of Muslims in the world.
What is Sunni and Shia?
This group makes up 90% of Dubai's population.
What are expatriates?
The cardinal direction you have to head from Egypt to get to Qatar.
What is East?
What is the place that Muhammed ascended to heaven (on a horse) and spoke to God (Allah).
DAILY DOUBLE
The organization that drew up a separate Israel-Palestine map after WWII.
Who is the United Nations?