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Natural Environments
People and Culture
Economy
History
The Region Today
100
The regions two major rivers
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
Muslim, Jewish, or Christianity.
What three religions are commonly practiced in the eastern Mediterranean?
100
Turkey's leading industry
What is textiles?
100
The first religion to develop in the region
What is Judaism?
100
The most technologically advanced country in the region
What is Israel?
200
The climates that cover most of the region
What is arid, semiarid, and Mediterranean?
200
Most commonly spoken languages of the region.
What is Arabic,Hebrew,and Turkish?
200
The region relies heavily on the industry
What is agriculture?
200
The three most commonly practiced religions in the eastern Mediterranean
What is What is Muslim, Jewish, and Christian?
200
Israel's leading export
What is diamond cutting/polishing?
300
Factors that effect temperature and rain fall
What is elevation and rain shadows?
300
All religions are monotheistic.
What does Muslim, Jewish, and Christian have in common?
300
The mineral resources found throughout the region
What is coal, copper, iron ore, oil, natural gas, potash, and magnesium?
300
The three most commonly spoken languages in the region
What is Arabic, Hebrew, and Turkic?
300
The regions main environmental concern
What is the lack of water?
400
The mineral resources that can be found throughout the region
What is coal, copper, iron ore, natural gas, potash, and magnesium?
400
The Holocaust
Why did Jewish immigration to Palestine increase during the 1930s and 1940s?
400
Activity that supported growth of permanent settlements in the region as far back as B.C. 8000
What is farming?
400
A movement that called for all Jews to set their own country or homeland in Palestine
What is zionism?
400
Factors threatening the limited fresh water in the region
What are droughts, growing population, and pollution?
500
The two continents the region is a part of
What is Europe and Asia?
500
Jesus set up his own country or homeland in Palestine, which was under ottoman rule.
What is Zionism?
500
Have caused forests to disappear everywhere in the region except Cyprus
What is farming, herding, ship building, and firewood collecting?
500
The Eastern Orthodox Church broke away from the the Roman Catholic Church
Why did Christianity become divided during the A.D. 400s?
500
Is probably the oldest city in the world
What is Damascus?