Bahrain is a small nation confined to a tiny ___________________.
island
100
Turkey’s ethnicity is mainly ___________, not Arab.
Turkish
100
Iran (formerly Known as _____________).
Persia.
100
The Iraqi ________________fight daily with militants to keep control of the country.
Security Forces
200
Mesopotamia is contained within Iraq, the land between the Tigris and ____________ Rivers.
Euphrates
200
Most of Iran’s people are ethnically _____________. They are not Arab like other nations in the Middle East.
Persian.
200
Yemen was the birthplace of ______________________.
Osama Bin Laden.
200
Qatar has reserves of both oil and ____________________.
natural gas
300
Saudi Arabia covers much of the ___________________.
Arabian Peninsula
300
Dubai has the largest building in the world: the __________________.
The Burk Khalifa?
300
The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 and removed dictator __________________________ from power.
Saddam Hussein
300
Iran’s physical geography is composed of the Iranian Plateau, mountains and the Caspian Sea to the north, and the _____________ Gulf to the south.
Persian Gulf.
400
Turkey’s physical geography consists of the _____________ Plateau, the Bosporus Strait, the border with the Mediterranean Sea, and the border with the Black Sea.
Anatolian
400
In some of the nations, a fundamentalist version of Islam has taken hold known as ______________________.
Wahhabism
400
Turkey (Formerly known as _________________).
The Ottoman Empire.
400
Kuwait was invaded by Saddam Hussein in 1990 and freed during the _____________________.
Persian Gulf War.
500
Mesopotamia is contained within Iraq, the land between the _________________ and Euphrates Rivers.
Tigris
500
Iraq is split into three main ethnic groups: _______, _______, and __________.
Sunni, Shia, Kurd
500
The United Arab Emirates is ruled by seven ______________________.
sheiks
500
The ______________ was attacked in Yemen by terrorists in 2000.