Eastern Mediterranean Countries
The country created in 1948 as a homeland for Jewish people
What is Israel?
The country with the largest oil deposits in the Middle East
What is Saudi Arabia?
The country which was invaded by the United States in 2001
What is Afghanistan?
The name for the series of invasions of the Middle East by Europeans about 1000 years ago
What are the Crusades?
The middle eastern country which started allowing women to drive in 2018
The middle eastern country that is partly in Asia and Europe
What is Turkey?
The middle eastern country whose leader is also the religions leader called ayatollah
What is Iran?
The capital of Afghanistan
What is Kabul?
This country was invaded by Iraq in 1990
What is Kuwait?
The most popular religion in the Middle East
What is Islam (or Muslim)?
The desert which covers over half of Israel
What is the Negev?
The desert which covers most of the Arabian peninsula
What is the Rub al Khali (or Empty Quarter)?
The group which led Afghanistan prior to 2001 which is now back in power
What is the Taliban?
The mountains found in Afghanistan
What are the Pamirs?
A method of supplying water to crops--Israel uses this to grow crops in desert areas
What is irrigation?
The country where a civil war was fought that ended in December 2024
What is Syria?
The leader of Iraq who invaded Kuwait and was later captured by U.S. soldiers
Who is Saddam Hussein?
The leader of Al Qaeda who planned the September 11 attacks on the U.S.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
The sea in the Middle East which has been shrinking because of too much water for irrigation being used
What is the Aral Sea?
The name for the people in the Middle East who have traded goods by crossing deserts on camels
Who are the Bedouins?
The ethnic group which has fought against the government of Turkey for independence
Who are the Kurds?
The gulf through which millions of barrels of oil are shipped every year
What it the Persian Gulf?
The group which has been banned from attending school in Afghanistan
Who are girls (females)?
The sea which separates North Africa and the Middle East
What is the Red Sea?
The product used to pave roads that is found in large amounts in the Middle East
What is asphalt?