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This river is the longest in the world.
What is the Nile River?
The most practiced religion in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
What is Islam?
Ancient Egyptians used this writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
This term describes a government ruled by religious leaders.
What is a theocracy?
Many countries in the region rely on this resource for their economy.
What is oil?
This canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
This city is the destination of the Hajj pilgrimage.
What is Mecca?
These structures were built as tombs for pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
The Ottoman Empire occupied land on these three continents.
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
This process turns seawater into freshwater.
What is desalination?
This body of water lies between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This Jewish holiday celebrates the escape from Egypt.
What is Passover?
This process preserved bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification? (What is mummies?)
This empire controlled much of North Africa and Southwest Asia during the Middle Ages.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
A common problem in the region due to limited water sources.
What are water shortages?
This desert covers most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Quran?
This river was central to ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This country in Southwest Asia operates as a theocracy, where religious leaders hold significant power.
What is Iran?
This canal is crucial for global trade, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
This acronym, SWANA, stands for what?
What is Southwest Asia and North Africa?
This is the Jewish Day of Atonement.
What is Yom Kippur?
The ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Had the first superhero and created new things like farming and languages.
What is Mesopotamia?
This North African country experienced a revolution in 2011, leading to the overthrow of its long-standing president and the establishment of a new government.
What is Egypt?
This term describes people who move from place to place without a permanent home.
What are nomads?