3.1-3.3
The lowest place on the earth's land surface.
What is the Dead Sea?
The largest religion in the Middle East.
What is Islam?
People who have left their country due to hardships.
What are refugees?
The strict social separation of classes in India.
What is the caste system?
Founder of the religion Buddhism.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
The three patriarchs of Israel.
Who are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
The world's largest largest peninsula.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
Narrow manmade channel of water that joins other bodies of water.
What is a canal?
The country formerly known as Persia.
What is Iran?
The capital of Pakistan.
What is Islamabad?
The first king of Israel.
Who is Saul?
Leader of Persia who conquered the Second Babylonian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Iraqi dictator who invented Kuwait.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
The two cities considered holy by Muslims.
What are Mecca and Medina?
The country previously known as Ceylon.
What is Sri Lanka?
The capital of Assyria.
What is Nineveh?
Temporary rivers that appear in heavy rains.
What are wadis?
The war in which Israel captured the east side of Jerusalem from Jordan.
What is the Six-Day War?
The southern most country in the Middle East.
What is Yemen?
The first European to reach India by sailing around Africa.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
The source of the river Jordan.
What is Mount Hermon?
Jewish captive who was trained to serve the king of Babylon as a wise counselor.
Who is Daniel?
Usually wider than either a strait or channel and sometimes separates an island from the mainland.
What is a sound?
The first empire to include most of the country of India.
What is the Mauryan Empire?
First Prime minister of India.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?