Geography
A narrow body of water that cuts through land, connecting two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
Ancient name of Iran.
What is Persia?
Ancient name of Turkey.
What is Anatolia?
Cyprus is an island in this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Capital city of Turkey.
What is Ankara?
This is the waterway that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.
What is the Bosporus Strait?
This empire originated in Ancient Iran, once ruling most of the Middle East and Ancient Turkey all the way to Greece.
(HINT: They are in the movie 300)
What is the Persian Empire?
The Turkish military has a lot of power in their country, and has overthrown their civilian government in this way.
What is a coup?
(A coup d'etat is the full name, taken from French)
Cyprus has two nations on it. This is the ethnic Greek, Christian nation.
What is the Republic of Cyprus?
Capital city of Iran.
What is Tehran?
Turkey lies on this mountainous plateau.
What is the Anatolian Plateau?
An Ancient Iranian religion that has few members today but once was the dominant religion in the area.
What is Zoroastrianism?
This man founded the Turkish Republic in 1923, and is named Ataturk.
Who is Mustafa Kemal?
Cyprus has two nations on it. This is the ethnic Turk, Muslim nation.
What is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus?
Ancient Iranian governors were called this.
What are satraps?
These winds blow from northwest Iran to southwest Iran. They start powerful dust storms.
What is a shamal?
This man was a Macedonian king who led Greek armies into the Middle East and conquered Ancient Iran. Never lost a battle, and died due to disease.
Who is the Alexander the Great?
This empire defeated the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) and ruled Turkey, the Middle East, and southeast Europe.
HINT: Its greatest sultan (emperor) was Suleiman the Magnificent.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
(Dismantled in the years following World War One (1914-1918) as it began to collapse internally).
The Ottoman Empire persecuted this ethnic group in eastern Turkey, murdering them in a genocide that later inspired Hitler.
Who are the Armenians?
(It was called the Armenian Genocide)
Former capital city of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire), fell to the Ottoman Turks in the 1400s and renamed to Istanbul.
What is Constantinople?
(Named after the Emperor Constantine)
This is the climate of Cyprus.
What is a Mediterranean climate?
(Hot and dry summers followed by milder, rainier winters)
Revolutionary Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, created the Islamic Republic of Iran, and died in 1989. His successor was this man.
Who is Ali Khamenei?
This is the Islamic political party in Turkey that wishes to make Turkey's government less secular (non-religious) and more centered around Islamic law.
What is the AKP?
(AKP are the Turkish initials for the Justice and Development Party)
Due to events in Greece, the Turkish military invaded Cyprus in this year.
When is 1974?
This empire came into existence after the Persian Empire collapsed. It fought and lost to the encroaching Islamic Arabs centuries later.
What is the Sassanian Empire?