What is a group of people who share many common characteristics--such as language, physical appearance, customs, and traditions.
100
Suez Canal
What is the man-made water route that connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
100
OPEC
What is the organization of countries that produces and sells oil?
100
Unitary
What is the government system where there is one level of government that dominates cities, states, and central government?
100
Ottoman Empire
What is the region that controlled most of northern Africa, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe during its height but was on the losing side in World War I?
200
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
What is the group of the three major religions started in the Middle East?
200
Tigris-Euphrates
What is the group of two rivers that are called the Cradle of Civilization?
200
What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
What are the 3 questions that are answered by Economic Systems?
200
Parliamentary
What is the democratic system where the legislative brance makes as well as enforces laws?
200
Zionism
What is the movement characterized by people who were determined to create a homeland for Jews?
300
Sunni and Shia
What is the division of the Islamic religion that was created after the death of Mohammed?
300
Persian Gulf
What is the body of water that is the beginning of the water shipping route for oil coming from the Middle East?
300
Mixed
What is the economic system that is common in most countries?
300
Knesset
What is the House of Parliament in Israel?
300
Persian Gulf War
What is the war in the 1990s that was started when Iraq invaded Kuwait in order to get control of their oil fields?
400
Religious Groups
What is a group of people who share a common belief system, but are not necessarily composed of a single ethnic group.
400
Oil
What is most valuable natural resource in the Middle East?
400
Market
What is the economic system that is characterized by individuals deciding what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom to produce it?
400
Theocracy
What is the type of government that is found in Iran in which the government is controlled by relgion?
400
Anti-Semitism
What is the attitude of prejudice against Jewish people?
500
Arabs, Persians, Kurds
What is the group of 3 major ethnic groups in Southwest Asia that usually share the Islamic religion?
500
What piece of Israel is a homeland for Palestinians?
What is Gaza Strip or West Bank?
500
Tariff
What is the trade barrier that is a tax on imports or exports?
500
monarchy
What is the type of government found in Saudi Arabia in which the king is a hereditary office?
500
Operation Enduring Freedom
What is the war that the coalition forces fought in Afghanistan to find and destroy Alquaida?