Geography
This is the largest sand desert in the world, located in North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
This is another, more common name for Southwest Asia.
What is the Middle East?
This ethnic group is native to Arabia and rapidly spread Islam to much of the world.
Who are the Arabs?
This was the leader of Iraq from 1979-2003.
Who was Saddam Hussein?
These are people who migrate alongside animals and do NOT partake in agriculture. The move from place to place, having no permanent settlement.
Who are nomads?
This is the longest river in the world. It flows south-to-north and allowed the Ancient Egyptian civilization to develop.
What is the Nile River?
Ancient Egyptian kings were called this.
What are pharaohs?
These are the three Abrahamic religions that originated in Southwest Asia.
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
This man is considered the "George Washington" of Turkey. He created the Republic of Turkey and modernized their country and reformed their language and government.
Who is Mustafa Kemal?
Extra: his new name became Ataturk.
This is a small place in the desert where water can be found.
What is an oasis?
What is Mesopotamia?
These were the ancient structures built in Egypt, typically used as tombs for Egyptian kings.
What are the pyramids?
This man created Islam and is known as the Last Prophet of Allah.
Who is Muhammad?
Muslim houses of worship.
What are mosques?
This is the process that has little rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills and/or mountains, allowing deserts to develop near bodies of water.
What is a rain shadow?
The two rivers were a major reason why civilization developed in the Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River?
This is the indigenous (native) people of western North Africa.
Who are the Berbers?
After WW2, the Zionist movement's efforts to secure a country bore fruit when the Jews were given their own country.
What is Israel?
This is the largest Christian denomination in Egypt, a denomination unique to Egypt.
What is the Coptic Church?
Two most important natural resources in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
What is water and oil?
These are tunnels in Iran that carry water for agriculture, their replacement for irrigation ditches.
What are qanats?
This man overthrew the British-backed Egyptian monarchy and ruled Egypt as a popular dictator from 1952-1970.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
These are the two biggest denominations within Islam.
This is the belief that all Arabic-speaking people should unite into one country.
What is Pan-Arabism?
The Muslim holy book.
What is the Quran?