Religion
Name the 3 religions that began in the Middle East.
What is Judaism, Christianity, Islam?
The holy writing (book) of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
The largest country in the Middle East.
What is Saudi Arabia?
This country was established because of the following reasons: the Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, and Zionism
Israel
This is the feature that makes up most of the Middle East.
What is a desert?
This is the prominent religion in the Middle East.
What is Islam?
The holy writing (book) of Islam.
What is the Quran?
The wealthiest country in the Middle East.
What is Qatar?
This is the canal that divides the Middle East from Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
What is the largest ethnic group in the Middle East?
Who are Arabs?
This is the difference between a religious group and an ethnic group.
What are religious groups share a common set of beliefs, while ethnic groups share a common culture, language, art, etc?
This is the name of the time period when the Jewish people were freed from Egyptian slavery by Moses and returned to the land of Canaan.
What is the Exodus?
This area along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea is overseen by Israel and is occupied predominantly by Palestinians.
What is the Gaza Strip?
This country lost land when Israel was created.
Palestine
The name of a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.
What is a refugee?
This Middle Eastern group is considered a religious AND ethnic group.
Who are the Jews?
The founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
This Middle Eastern country is located to the northwest of Iraq and is the country in which the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers begin.
What is Turkey?
This is the area where it is believed that civilization began.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys OR the Fertile Crescent?
From 1948-1973 these wars were fought between Israel and the following countries: Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
What is the Arab-Israeli War?
This person's family tree spawned both the Jewish and Arab Race.
Who is Abraham?
Led to the split between the Sunni and Shia in Islam.
What is the death of Muhammad and naming his successor.
The capital of Iraq
What is Bagdad?
The Suez Canal is so important to international shipping because it makes it possible to get to this sea from the Arabian Sea without having to sail around Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The capital of Iran.
What is Tehran?