Landforms
People
Terms
Religion
Landforms/Terms
100
Major mountain chain in Afghanistan
What is Hindu Kush
100
Nomadic desert dwellers that moved across the Arabian Peninsula and helped spread Islam
What are Bedouins
100
type of desert that results when moisture from the soil evaporates and chemical salts remain
What is a salt flat
100
Judaism, Christianity and _____ were founded in SW Asia
What is Islam
100
Hilly plateau overlooking the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee
What are the Golan Heights
200
Landform so salty only bacteria can live
What is Dead Sea
200
Group that imposed strict rules on the people of Afghanistan
What is Taliban
200
A government controlled by religious leaders
What is theocratic
200
Two branches of Islam
What is Sunni and Shi'ite
200
Land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia
300
Two rivers that flow parallel to one another through Turkey, Syria and Iraq
What are Tigris and Euphrates
300
Person found in a hole and was executed during the Iraq War
Who is Saddam Hussein
300
A largely unskilled laborer
What is a guest worker
300
Fasting, Faith, Prayer, Charity and Pilgrimmage are the _______________
What are the 5 Pillars of Islam
300
The peninsula Turkey occupies
What is the Anatolian Peninsula
400
Landform also known as the Empty Quarter
What is Rub al Khali
400
Skills and talents of of employed people
What are human resources
400
A resource so important that nations will go to war over it (example:oil)
What is a strategic commodity
400
The country created in 1948 for Jews
What is Israel
400
Place where ancient civilizations built empires in northeast Southwest Asia
What is theFertile Crescent
500
Riverbeds that remain dry except during the rainy seasons
What are wadis
500
Ethnic group chemically attacked by the Iraqi Air Force in 1988
What is the Kurds
500
The goal of __________ was to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is Zionism
500
The area considered the homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
What is Palestine
500
Where the Tigris and Euphrates meet
What is the Shatt al Arab
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