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GEOGRAPHY
RELIGION
PATTERNS OF LIFE
PEOPLE
STUFF
100
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
100
They are the three great monotheistic religions born in the Middle East.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
100
This is the commercial heart of Middle Eastern cities.
What is the suq?
100

He is the present king of Saudi Arabia.

Who is King Salman?

100
He was recently chased from Egypt and lost his job as president.
Who is Hosni Mubarak?
200
This is the name of a fertile area in the desert that has enough water to support plant and animal life.
What is an Oasis?
200
Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad PBUH
Who are the prophets of Judaism, Christianity and Islam?
200
This is a major rule concerning who Muslim women may marry.
Muslim women must marry Muslim men.
200
She encouraged her husband to accept his role as the prophet of Islam.
Who is Khadija?
200
This country was taken by Italy after WWI.
What is Libya?
300
This is the name of the canal that links the Red and Mediterranean seas.
What is the Suez Canal?
300
These two groups split Islam because they argued over who should lead the people.
Who are Sunnis and Shias?
300
This is the first country in the region that allowed women to vote and hold political office.
What is Turkey?
300
He was the first muezzin.
Who is Bilal?
300
This process converts sea water into fresh water.
What is desalination?
400
This country is sandwiched between Turkey and Iraq. It is southeast of Turkey and northwest of Iraq.
What is Syria?
400
This is the name given to the flight of Muhammad PBUH and his followers from Makkah to Medina.
What is the HEJIRA?
400
Persecution of Jews led to this movement which sought to reestablish a Jewish state in Palestine.
What is ZIONISM?
400
He led the movement, back in the late 1890's, that encouraged Jews to move back to Palestine.
Who is Theodor Herzl?
400
This empire controlled most of the Middle East and North Africa until 1923.
What is the OTTOMAN EMPIRE?
500
These are the five main physical regions of the Middle East.
Arabian Peninsula, Fertile Crescent, Maghreb, Nile Valley, and Northern Tier
500
These are the Five Pillars of Faith, in Arabic, in CORRECT ORDER.
What are: Shahadah Salat Zakat Sawm Hajj
500
This was a movement whose goal was to unite all Arabs based upon their common language and culture.
What is Pan-Arabism?
500
This group attacked Israel from bases they created in Lebanon in the 1970's.
What is the PLO? PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION
500
These are all of the PATIO languages.
What are: FARSI, ARABIC, TURKISH, HEBREW, ARMENIAN, BERBER, and KURDISH.