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Geography
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Religions
OPEC
Mesopotamia
100
The large sea to the west of Saudi Arabia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
The ancient capital of Iran.
What is Persepolis?
100
The first major religion founded in the Middle East.
What is Judaism.
100
The United States imports ________ oil than we produce.
What is 'more'?
100
The first set of recorded laws that was written down in Mesopotamia.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
It is north of Yemen and Oman.
What is Saudi Arabia?
200
Western European & American defense organization created after World War II.
What is NATO?
200
The religion that was founded by Muhammad.
What is Islam?
200
Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
What are the founding countries of OPEC?
200
The first form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
300
They are competing with Hebrews for the ancient land of Canaan, and want to be recognized as their own nation state.
Who are the Palestinians?
300
The first civilizations were established in this region.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
The holy book of the religion is the Bible.
What is Christianity.
300
There are 12 member countries.
How many countries are currently members of OPEC? ~~~ (Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.)
300
Two countries that border modern-day Mesopotamia?
Kuwait, Iran, Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey
400
Which country straddles East and West, and has petitioned for membership into the EU?
Turkey
400
This organization controls 2/3 of the world's oil.
What is OPEC?
400
The holy book of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
400
In 1973, Arab OPEC member nations refused to ship oil to the U.S. and several other western countries to protest our support of Israel and Syria in a war against Egypt, causing the .....
What is the 1973 Energy Crisis?
400
The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where the first civilizations in Mesopotamia were located, is which modern day country?
What is Iraq?
500
Détente, a relaxation of Cold War tensions, ended in 1979 when the USSR invaded this country.
What is Afghanistan?
500
This area is also known as Southwest Asia.
What is the Middle East?
500
The belief in just one god.
What is monotheism?
500
This body of water borders 6 OPEC nations.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
A government that rules over different groups of people or territories.
What is an empire?