Ancient World
Israel is considered the ancestral home of this group of people
Who are the Hebrews (or Jews)?
This river runs through both Sudan and Egypt
What is the Nile River?
What are Sunni Muslims?
Type of government most likely to restrict access to the internet and monitor communication
What is a dictatorship?
Who are Jews?
The pyramids were built in this modern-day country
What is Egypt?
Separates Europe, Asia, and North Africa
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Second most popular branch of Islam
What are Shia Muslims?
Dictator who ruled Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Who was Saddam Hussein?
Palestinian territory along the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Gaza Strip?
Ancient Babylon was located in this modern-day country
What is Iraq?
The most important waterway in Southwest Asia due to the transportation of oil
What is the Persian Gulf?
Name of Islam's central prophet
Who was Mohammad?
Dictator who ruled Libya from 1969 to 2011
Who was Muammar Gaddafi?
Palestinian territory along the Jordan River and Dead Sea
What is the West Bank?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
Divides Africa from the Arabian Peninsula
What is the Red Sea?
Holiest site in the Islamic faith
What is Mecca?
Manufactured the threat of Kuwait to justify invasion
What is Iraq?
Name for the Israeli military
An ancient Indo-European people who once lived in what is now Turkey
Who were the Hittites?
Landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the West Bank to the west and Israel to the southwest
Century the Muslim religion was started
What was the 7th century?
What is propaganda?
What is the Sabbath?