Physical Features
Palestine/Israel
Capitals/Iran
Saudi Arabia/Iraq
War or Leaders
100
Two bodies of water that border Turkey.
What are the Mediterranean and Black seas?
100
The year Palestine was declared to be the nation of Israel.
What is 1948?
100
The capital of Israel and is sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians.
What is Jerusalem?
100
The Saud family.
Who are the rulers of Saudi Arabia since 1932?
100
The most important person in Iran's government.
What is the head of the ayatollahs?
200
The country that doe not have a coastline on the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Jordan?
200
The Zionist movement that began in Europe.
What is the movement of tens of thousands of Jews from Europe to Palestine?
200
Tehran.
What is the capital of Iran?
200
The country with the largest oil reserves?
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
Suddam Hussein was a leader of this before he took power in Iraq.
What is the Baath Party?
300
The Rub' al-Khali and An Nafud
What are two extremely large and dry deserts in Saudi Arabia?
300
The group in charge of leadership in Palestine.
What is the Palestinian Authority?
300
Baghdad
What is the capital of Iraq?
300
The location of the world's first civilization.
What is present-day Iraq?
300
A government ruled by religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
400
Empty Quarter
What is the meaning of Rub'al-Khali, the desert in Saudi Arabia?
400
The Diaspora.
What is the scattering of the Jewish population by the Romans?
400
Type of government Iran has.
What is a theocracy?
400
Saudi rules for women.
What are the inability to drive or be in public without a male relative?
400
Iraq's attack of Kuwait and the US lead war response.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
500
This physical feature contains very little life, is extremely salty, only bacteria lives in it and it is located at the lowest point on any continent.
What is the Dead Sea?
500
A Kibbutz.
What is a large farm where everything is shared in common?
500
Hard line policies of Iran that create concerns for other countries, including the United States.
What are the desire to destroy Israel, support of terrorist groups, and the creation of nuclear weapons?
500
Challenges Iraq still faces today.
What is rebuilding schools, hospitals, roads and creating a free where its people and the country make money?
500
This caused new tensions between the United States and Iraq.
What are the September 11 attacks on the United States?
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