Landforms
The mountain range located in southern Turkey.
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What is the Taurus Mountains?
What is the name of the head covering worn by some Muslim women in public that does not cover the face, but rather the hair and neck?
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What is a hijab?
Britain occupied the Gulf of Aden (south of Yemen) to protect shipping to this well known country located east of the Middle East:
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What is India?
Asia Minor is another name for what country?
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What is Turkey?
The belief that the land in the Israel-Palestine area belongs to the Jewish people.
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What is Zionism?
The mountain range located in western Iran.
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What is the Zagros Mountains?
Name another language spoken throughout SWANA. (Multiple Acceptable Answers)
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What is:
Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, or Hebrew?
Arab nationalism rose in the 19th century after colonization by countries in what continent?
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What is Europe?
The process in which fertile land becomes desert, the process where a desert grows.
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What is desertification?
Why was FIFA skeptical about having Qatar host the 2022 World Cup?
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What are- the very hot summer temperatures and conditions?
The mountain range that stretches across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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What is the Hindu Kush?
What makes a person an “Arab”?
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What is- they speak Arabic as their first language?
Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia were all primary colonized by this European country:
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What is France?
The Jahiliyyah Period, meaning the Age of Ignorance, indicated the ignorance of _______ religion
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What is Islamic?
Jamal Khashoggi, the controversial journalist and critic of the Saudi government, was believed to be murdered by agents from what country?
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What is Saudi Arabia?
The landform that runs from Syria into Mozambique.
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What is the Great Rift Valley?
What unique and developed Arabic art form has been used in books as well as decorations on buildings?
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What is calligraphy?
Name one possible empire that once had control over the land that is now the Middle East. (Multiple Acceptable Answers)
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What is:
The Persian, Ottoman, or Roman Empire
Lack of fertile land and the drying up of _____ in deserts has caused a wave of urbanization in SWANA.
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What are oases?
What is the name of the disputed territory between Israel and Palestine?
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What is the West Bank or Gaza Strip?
What landform that is a part of Egypt touches Israel?
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What is the Sinai Peninsula?
What is the difference between the “Arab world” and the “Islamic world”?
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What is:
The Arabic world is Arabic-speaking countries in SWANA excluding turkey and Israel while the Islamic world are all predominantly Muslim countries including turkey and Israel
What was the first North African country to gain independence from a European country?
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What is Egypt?
The word “Sahara” means what in Arabic?
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What is "desert"?
What country in SWANA is leaving OPEC?
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What is Qatar?