Christianity
Most influential person in the spread of Christianity after Jesus's death.
Who is Paul?
Once it fell, it was taken over and partitioned by European countries.
What is Ottoman Empire?
Reason the United States went to war against Iraq in 2003.
Did the United States government see the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, as a threat to peace and United States interests in the region?
Reason Muhammad moved from Mecca to Medina in 622.
Was he was forced to move because Mecca's rulers threatened to kill him?
The movement of Jews all over the world back to their promised land.
What is Zionism?
The rise of Jesus from the dead.
What is resurrection?
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates river.
What is Mesopotamia?
Holds most of the power in Saudi Arabia.
Who are the royal family?
The Holy Book of Islam.
What is the Qu'ran/Koran?
Led the Hebrews out of Mesopotamia and into the promised land of Canaan.
Who is Abraham?
God in Three.
What is the Trinity?
Family of many of the early caliphs.
What is the Umayyad family?
Current form of government of Israel.
What is Democracy?
The holiest city of Islam.
What is Mecca?
Led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt.
Who is Moses?
Considered to be the Messiah by Christians.
Who is Jesus?
What happened to Israel when it was divided into two kingdoms?
The power of the two kingdoms was weakened and both were eventually conquered by foreign invaders.
The mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
The two groups in which Muslims divided when they could not agree on who should become caliph in the mid-600s.
What are Shia and Sunni?
Jewish place of worship
What is a synagogue?
Followers of Jesus Christ.
What are disciples?
The Ottoman leader who conquered the city of Constantinople and defeated the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Mehmed II?
OPEC's form of Government.
What is a confederation?
Main factors in the spread of Islam.
What is conquest and trade?
The holiest book of Judaism.
What is the Torah?