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100
This country connects Europe and Asia
What is Turkey?
100
This person led the Hebrews to Israel in 1,000BC
Who is Abraham?
100
A government in which people vote for their leaders
What is a democracy?
100

A subdivision of a religion

What is a sect?

100
Another name for Israel
What is Palestine?
200
This country is west of Iraq and east of Afghanistan
What is Iran?
200
The US invaded this country in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks.
What is Afghanistan?
200

Form of government in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs.

What is an Theocracy?

200
The largest branch of Islam today
What is Sunni?
200
A movement among European Jews for a homeland in Palestine
What is Zionism?
300
This sea is southe of the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Arabian Sea?
300
This US involvement in the Middle East is also known as Operation Desert Storm
What is the Persian Gulf War?
300

Saudi Arabia has a_____ government.

What is a Monarchy?

300
The oldest religion in Southwest Asia
What is Judaism?
300
First person to preach Christianity to non-Jewish people
Who is Paul/Saul of Tarsus?
400
These rivers (TWO) flow from Turkey, through Syria, and into the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
This empire was divided in 1917 by European colonial powers.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
400

This country is officially a semi-presidential republic.

What is Syria?

400
Belief in one god
What is monotheism?
400
Discrimination and persuection against Jewish people
What is anti-semitism?
500
This man-made feature connects the Red Sea and the Mediterrannean
What is the Suex Canal?
500

Is home to the tomb of the prophet Muhammad. The city is considered to be a holy city second in importance only to Makkah. 

What is Medina?

500

(Islamic law) deals with several topics including: crime, politics, and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexual intercourse, hygiene, diet, prayer, everyday etiquette and fasting.

What is Sharia?

500

The highest leader in Islam

What is a caliph?

500
Another name for dividing; Europeans did this to the Ottoman Empire in 1917 at the end of WW1
What is partitioning?