Geography
Spain & Portugal
People and Places
Vocabulary
The Basics
100
It's the African country with the pyramids and Cairo.
What is Egypt?
100
The country that borders Spain to the NORTH. ("Bon jour!")
What is France?
100
She was the famous Spanish queen who ruled in the late 1400's.
Who was Isabella?
100
The main language of North Africa today.
What is Arabic?
100
The Italian explorer whose voyage 'to find Asia' in 1492 was sponsored by Queen Isabella.
Who was Colombus?
200
The world's longest river. It crosses North Africa.
What is the Nile?
200
This large sea separates Spain from Africa.
What is the Mediterranean?
200
A person who speaks Arabic as his/her native language.
Who is an Arab?
200
The old name for Iran.
What is Persia?
200
The sea that separates Africa from Arabia (southwest Asia).
What is the Red Sea?
300
The world's largest desert. It's bigger than the USA!
What is the Sahara?
300
This was the period when people were put on trial and punished for 'not being Christian'.
What was the Spanish Inquisition?
300
This Syrian city was the first Muslim Empire capital.
What is Damascus?
300
The term for 'the retaking of Spain by the Christians.'
What is the 'Reconquista' (Reconquest)?
300
Two reasons why North Africa has always been so difficult to cross.
What are 'Hot' and 'Dry' (arid)?
400
Timbuktu is located in this 'four-letter' African country.
What is Mali?
400
This city was the capital of Muslim Spain.
What is Cordoba?
400
The term used for leader of the Muslim Empire. It means 'successor'.
What is caliph?
400
The final two words of this phrase (used by Muslim leaders to signify that Jews and Christians should be left in peace): 'People of ___ _____'
What is 'the Book'?
400
The main river of West Africa. It flows by Timbuktu and has a country named after it.
What is the Niger River?
500
Now Africa's largest country, it lies between Morocco and Tunisia.
What is Algeria?
500
It's the peninsula that includes Spain and Portugal.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
500
The large rock on Spain's coast. Muslim invaders burned their boats there in 711AD. "No retreat!"
What is Gibraltar?
500
It means 'belief in one God', true of Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
What is monotheism?
500
He stopped the Muslim invasion of France in 732AD and 'kept Europe Christian'.
Who was Charles "The Hammer" Martel?
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