What are the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, and the Persian Gulf?
100
It is the old name for the land. The name indicated citizens could raise crops and animals.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
the words for "many gods" and "one god"
What are "polytheism" and "monotheism"?
100
The nation created after WWII for Jewish citizens.
What is Israel?
100
It determines where people live in this area.
What is "water"? ( fresh water, available for consumption and farming)
200
the two major rivers in the Fertile Crescent
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
The name for the first civilization in this area.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
It involved Abraham and the Hebrew people.
What is Judaism?
200
they are an independent ethnic group mainly in Turkey and Iran who were not given a separate country in the post-WWII divisions, and are still fighting for a country.
Who are the Kurds?
200
It is the most widespread language in the area.
What is Arabic?
300
the two most important natural resources - both are fossil fuels
What are petroleum and natural gas?
300
They are Mesopotamian societies. ( name of cities or people)
What are Sumerians, Babylonians, or the invading Assyrians?
300
It involved Jesus and began in this area about AD30.
What is Christianity?
300
There have been two - when Iraq invaded Kuwait and when the US and UK invaded Iraq.
What are Persian Gulf wars?
300
These are the two branches of Islam.
What are Sunni and Shia?
400
it was built in 1869 and links the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
What is the Suez Canal?
400
He was a king who wrote his code of laws, and the laws were used for many years.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
It involved Muhammad and has five pillars.
What is Islam?
400
this is the country/people who lost land and a designated country for the creation of the state of Israel.
What is Palestine, or the Palestinians?
400
This country has no rivers and must depend on fossil water and desalinated ocean water for survival.
What is Saudi Arabia?
500
they are four countries in the Middle East (Southwest Asian) area.
What are Israel, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain,
500
It is the greatest invention/ attribute of the Sumerian civilization.
What is writing? (cuneiform writing)
500
After the Mongol invasion in the 1200's, a new Muslim empire grew up in Mesopotamia called the _______Empire.
What is "Ottoman"?
500
this is an Islamic organization who carried out terrorist attacks in America on Sept. 11, 2001.
What is Al-Qaeda?
500
This conflict has lasted 60 years and resulted in wars lasting from a few days to several years.