Rivers and Landforms
This river flows parallel to the Tigris and supported ancient civilizations.
What is the Euphrates River?
This is the holiest city in Islam and home to the Kaaba.
What is the city of Mecca?
The ancient civilizations of Sumer, Babylon, and Assyria developed here.
What is Mesopotamia?
This is the main source of wealth in the Arabian Peninsula
What is oil?
These are two main branches of Islam.
What is Sunni and Shia Muslims?
This large body of water is in the middle of Africa and Southwest Asia. Used to be used in the Spice Trade
What is the Red Sea?
This city is sacred to Christians and Muslims, but mostly to the Jews.
What is the city of Jerusalem?
The fall of this empire after WWI led to Britain and France dividing the Middle East.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This is process removes salt from seawater to make it drinkable.
What is Desalinization?
This is an example of a stateless nation.
What is Palestine?
This man-made waterway connects the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
These are the books of scripture that each of the Monotheistic faiths adhere too.
What is the Holy Bible for Christians?
What is the Qur'an for Muslims?
What is the Torah for Jews?
The movement that encouraged Jews to return to their homeland in Israel.
What is Zionism?
Saudi Arabia switched from this to the Western Style Markets
What is a bazaar?
This is often what this region of the world is called.
What is the Crossroads of the World?
This mountain range in Afghanistan makes travel and trade difficult.
What is the Hindu Kush Mountains?
This is the period of fasting for Muslims from Sunrise to Sunset.
What is Ramadan?
This is what the Gaza Strip is known for today.
What is high population density and ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
This country in Southwest Asia is what ties Europe to the rest of SW Asia.
What is Turkey?
This was a series of wars fought to try and reclaim the holy lands.
What is the Crusades?
What narrow waterway connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea and is crucial for oil transport?
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
These are the five Pillars of Islam.
What is Faith, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage?
This group carried out the 9/11 attacks, leading to the War on Terror.
What is Al-Qaeda? With help from Osama Bin Laden
This is what Muslim women wear in the Arabian Peninsula to cover themselves.
What is a hijab?
This is when the War on Terror ended.
What is August 2021, when President Biden announced the return of all soldiers serving in Afghanistan?