Religion
Population
Terms
Dates
Boundaries and Physical Features
100
Dominant religion on the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Islam?
100
Ancient civilization in the region of Mesopotamia that established year-round farming and cuneiform.
What are Sumerians?
100
Known as Islamic freedom fighters.
What are mujahideen?
100
This independent country was founded in 1948.
What is Irael?
100
The primate city of Egypt.
What is Cairo?
200
The dominant religion in Georgia and Armenia.
What is Christianity?
200
Most Turkic people people outside of Turkey live here.
What is Central Asia?
200
A Prince or ruler in Islamic countries.
What is emir?
200
This discovery of this commodity in the early 1900s, lead to increased wealth and modernization.
What is Oil?
200
This type of boundary separates Iraq and Iran.
What is a natural boundary?
300
Most Arabs in North Africa are members of this branch of Islam.
What is Sunni?
300
More than 90% of Egypt's people live in this region.
What is the Nile Delta?
300
A center where a culture developed and spread outward.
What is a culture hearth?
300
The Ottoman empire lasted from 1299-1923 in this present-day country.
What is Turkey?
300
This physical feature has allowed Egypt to to become a key regional power.
What is the Nile River?
400
Territory ruled by Islamic religious leader.
What is sheikhdom?
400
Percentage of Jews living in Israel that were born there.
What is 50%?
400
A member of a nomadic desert people of North Africa and Southwest Asia.
What is a bedouin?
400
This ancient civilization developed along the eastern Mediterranean coast around 3000 B.C. and traded widely across the Mediterranean.
What is the Phoenicians?
400
This type of boundary separates Libya, Egypt and Algeria.
What is a geometric boundary?
500
Pilgrimiage to Makkah.
What is hajj?
500
Jews were originally expelled from their homeland by this group.
What are Romans?
500
Underground canals developed by Persians.
What are qanat?
500
This organization was formed in response to low oil prices causins payment cuts to oil-producing countries in the 1950s
What is OPEC?
500
This type of boundary separates groups different cultures.
What is a cultural boundary?
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