Geography
What type of climate does this region have?
What is arid?
The shift from gathering food to growing it.
Agriculture Revolution
A writing system based on pictures
Hieroglyphics
a Muslim place of worship
Mosque
The longest river in the world that flows from South to North.
The Nile River
The belief in one God
Monotheistic
Where most Egyptians live.
Along the Nile River.
Underground tunnels used to carry water from mountains to dry plains
Qanats
What two rivers flow through Syria and Iraq?
The Tigris and Euphrates River.
Muslims are encouraged to travel to Mecca at least once, which is located in what country?
Saudi Arabia
What was completed in the Nile River Valley in 1970?
The Aswan High Dam
What are the three religious and ethnic groups of Iraq?
Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurds
The year Israel was declared an independent state
1948
Who was King of Babylonia in 605 BC?
Nebuchadnezzar
in 1000 BC, King David made this place the capitol of Israel.
Jerusalem
One of the notable female Pharaohs.
Hatshepsut
nomadic Arabic-speaking people who live in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Jordan
Bedouin
The long time U.S. enemy and Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein
The fault that runs east to west just south of the Black Sea.
North Anatolian Fault
Name the Holy Books of this region.
Hebrew Bible, Qur'an, and Christian Bible
This is the largest pyramid, built in 2550 BC.
The Great Pyramid of Khufu
The only city that sits on two continents, and on sits on the Bosporus Strait
Istanbul