This refers to a pools of underground water that can be used for drinking water under the desert.
What is an aquifer
100
This is the belief in many Gods.
What is polytheism?
100
These are the major resources found in this part of the world.
What is oil and natural gas?
100
This is the area Hamurabi controlled some 4,000 years ago.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
These are the roles of many women in Islamic countries.
What is they are seen as house workers and limited to what they can do? Some cannot vote or hold office, or ride in a car without a male relative.
200
This term refers to the belief in only ONE God.
What is monotheism?
200
This is violence used against people or governments to make political statements.
What is terrorism?
200
This is a body of water where a lot of oil and natural gas is found.
What is the Persian Gulf?
200
These were built as tombs for the pharaohs in Egypt.
What are pyramids?
200
These are the three main religions that sprouted from this area.
What are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
300
This is what the rulers/Gods of Egypt were once called. Egyptians would build tombs in their honor.
What are pharoahs?
300
This is the form of writing in Mesopotamia that used wedge shapes.
What is cuneiform?
300
This is the longest river in the world that provided Egyptians with water and fertile grounds in which to live.
What is the Nile River?
300
This is the reason ancient civilizations were able to develop.
What is the ability to grow crops and raise livestock?
300
This is the religion that is most common in this area today and has a holy month called Ramadan in which followers don't eat or drink during daylight hours.
What is Islam?
400
This is the term that refers to an absolute ruler. Many countries in the middle east have had these types of leaders in recent history.
What is a dictator?
400
This is the process of changing salt water into fresh water.
What is desalinization?
400
These are the two rivers that creative a fertile flood plain in the Mesopotamia region, present day Iraq.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
This is how places Mesopotamia was able to control water flow to their crops? You can use certain terms we have discussed.
What is through movable gates or use of paths? Irrigation? Dams?
400
This is a place where Judaism is the main religion.
What is Israel?
500
This is an Islamic house of worship.
What is a mosque?
500
This is the large desert that covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
500
These are reasons oil is important to the rest of world.
What is it is used in many modern products (hair products, cars, technology, toothpaste, etc.)? It is how we live a modern lifestyle.
500
This is one law Hamurabi put in place for Mesopotamia.
What is (answers will vary)?
500
Name a prophet for two of the three main religions.
Who is Abraham for Judaism, Jesus for Christianity, and Muhammad for Islam?