Western Asia 1 +1
Turkey
What is Ankara?
Israel
What is Jerusalem?
Azerbaijan
What is Baku?
Iran
What is Tehran?
These three geological features characterize central Asia
What are deserts, grasslands, and steppes?
a large area of flat land with few trees
What is a plain?
Kazakhstan
What is Astana?
Syria
What is Damascus?
What is Kuwait City?
Cyprus
What is Nicosia?
Pakistan
What is Islamabad?
This road provided a way not only to spread goods but also to spread Buddhism from India to China
What is the Silk Road?
a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water
What is a peninsula?
Turkmenistan
What is Ashgabat?
What is Beirut?
Iraq
What is Baghdad
Saudi Arabia
What is Riyadh?
India
What is New Delhi?
These three countries in central Asia have very dry summer climates
What are Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan?
a platform on pillars projecting from the shore into the sea
What is a pier?
Uzbekistan
What is Tashkent?
What is Yerevan?
Jordan
What is Amman?
Oman
What is Muscat?
Afghanistan
What is Kabul?
This sea has shrunk by 90 percent in the last fifty years
What is the Aral Sea?
an area of fairly level high ground
What is a plateau?
Kyrgyzstan
What is Bishtek?
Georgia
What is Tbilisi?
United Arab Emirates
What is Abu Dhabi?
Qatar
What is Doha?
Maldives
What is Male?
Even this famous personage, conqueror of the Middle East, has a place in central Asian history
Who was Alexander the Great?
What is a piedmont?
Tajikistan
What is Dunshanbe?
Sri Lanka
What is Columbo?
Nepal
What is Kathmandu?
Bhutan
What is Thimpu?
Bangladesh
What is Dhaka?
This country imposed unrealistic yield quotas on farms in central Asia
What is the Soviet Union/Russia?
a gap, or break, in high, rugged terrain such as a mountain ridge
What is a pass?
What are the Persians, Greeks, Arabians, Mongols, Soviets?