Dirt and Water
This river is the longest in the world and flows north through Egypt.
What is the Nile
A fertile area in a desert where there is water and vegetation.
What is an Oasis
The capital of Saudi Arabia.
What is Riyadh
The vast desert that covers most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara
This event occurred between the Six-Day War (1967) and the Iranian Revolution (1979).
What is the Yom Kippur War? (1973)
This "Sea" is actually a landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan.
What is the Dead Sea
A dry riverbed in the desert that can fill with water during heavy rain.
Sana'a is the capital of this country at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is Yemen
This country’s capital is Rabat
What is Morroco
This event occurred between the Iranian Revolution (1979) and the Invasion of Kuwait (1990)
What is the invasion of Iran (Iraq-Iran War)? (Started 1980)
This large plateau is located in Turkey.
The mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form a triangle shape.
What is a Delta
This is the smallest country in the Middle East
What is Bahrain
The mountain range that stretches across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
What is the Atlas Mountains
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This event happened between the 9/11 Attacks (Sept 2001) and the US Invasion of Iraq (March 2003).
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
These two rivers formed the boundaries of Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq.
The process by which fertile land becomes desert.
What is Desertification
Saul became Paul on the road to this capital city in Syria, one of the oldest in the world today.
What is Damascus
The Capital of Western Sahara
What is Laayuone
This event happened between the Founding of ISIS (2013) and the Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal (2018).
What is the Signing of the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA)?
one of the world’s largest sand deserts.
What is the Rub Al' Khali
The region stretching from the Persian Gulf to Egypt with rich soil
What is The Fertile Crescent
This strip of land has been fought over by Jews and Arabs since the founding of Israel
What is the Gaza strip
What is the White Nile River
CLUE: This event took place between the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia (2010) and the Founding of ISIS (2013)
What is the Death of Osama bin Laden? (May 2011)