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This is an area of high, level land
What is a plateau?
This tree is one of the most useful in the Middle East today
What is the date palm?
This is the capitol of Syria
What is Damascus?
This is the name of the lines that run east and west around our globe
What are lines of latitude?
I am the founder of the religion of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
This is a climate with hot, dry summers and cool winters and some rain
What is a Mediterranean climate?
This is the natural resource that is the most important natural resource to Saudi Arabia and Iran's economy
What is oil?
This is the capitol of Jordan
What is Amman?
This is a line of latitude just north of the equator
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
I am the missionary to India and the Middle East who was willing to "burn out for God"?
Who is Henry Martyn?
This is a temporary river
What is a wadi?
This natural resource was treasured in the ancient world for its precious wood. It was used in Solomon's Temple.
What are the cedars of Lebanon?
Baghdad is the capitol of this country
What is Iraq?
This is the line of longitude that has its starting point in Greenwich, England and runs through western parts of Europe and Africa
What is the Prime Meridian?
I am the leader who invaded Kuwait
Who is Saddam Hussein?
These are dry, grassy plains with little rainfall
What are steppes?
Turkey has it's largest port in this large city.
What is Istanbul?
This is the capitol of Saudi Arabia
What is Riyadh?
This is the line of latitude that is just south of the equator
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
I am the first prime minister of Israel
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
This was a movement whose purpose was to return Jews to the Holy Land
What is Zionism?
This is the central pipeline of Israel's irrigation system that has brought water to the desert.
What is the National Water Carrier?
The capitol of this country is Ankara
What is Turkey?
This is the line of latitude that divides the northern and southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
I am the leader of Iran after it became an Islamic state
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?