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100

The process of removing salt from sea water.

What is desalination?

100

This country has the most Arabs in the middle east.

What is Saudi Arabia?

100

Meaning of partition.

What is to break up or separate?

100

True or False. Saudi Arabia is mostly desert.

What is True?

200

This country has the most dams built in the middle east. 22 to be exact.

What is Turkey?

200

Major ethnic group living in Iran.

What is Persians?

200

1948 was the year the state of  __________ was established in the middle east.

What is Israel?

200

Largest ethnicity in Southwest Asia (middle east).

What is Arabs?

300

This country in Southwest Asia (Middle East) relies heavily on desalination. 

What is Saudi Arabia?

300

A common figure in the origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Who is Abraham?

300

After WWI, this empire broke up and caused ethnicities to be displaced in the middle east.

What is Ottoman Empire?

300

Israel has this form of government.

What is parliamentary democracy?

400

This country is southwest of Iran and at one time played a crucial role in U.S. interest (oil) in the middle east.

What is Kuwait?

400

Ethnic group that has no homeland.

Who are the Kurds?

400

Meaning of Zionism to the Jewish.

What is the land of Israel specifically Jerusalem is holy and sacred and promised to them by God?

400

The name of the agreement that solidified the breakup of the middle east after WWI.

What is Sykes-Picot agreement?

500

The major physical features of Southwest Asia (Middle East)? Rivers, mountains, deserts, etc.

What is Euphrates River, Tigris River, Jordan River, Suez Canal, Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, Arabian Sea, Red Sea, and Gaza Strip?

500

Most people in Southwest Asia live close to...

What is freshwater and seacoast?

500

The Persian Gulf conflict was caused by this.

What is Saddam Hussein invasion of Kuwait to get access back to the Persian Gulf and in addition oil reserves?

500

Osama Bin Laden's compounded in Pakistan was raided by Navy Seals on May 2, ____ at 1:00am.

What is 2011?