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This sea is used for bathing and mud soaks for health.
What is the Dead Sea?
100
This is the name of the ethnic group in Iran, Iraq and Turkey that has no home land.
What is Kurds?
100
This is the climate for much of Turkey.
What is steppe?
100
This is the subregion of the Middle East that has many mountains.
What is the Plateau of Anatolia?
100
This is the only island nation in the Middle East.
What is Cyprus?
200
This is the religion of the Hebrews.
What is Judaism?
200
This is the Palestinian organization that seeks a homeland.
What is PLO?
200
This is the reason for increased urbanization in the Middle East.
What is oil wealth?
200
Most people in the Middle East speak Arabic in order to read this holy book.
What is the Koran?
200
This is the body of rules that is basic to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
What is the Ten Commandments?
300
This famous Persian poet wrote epic poems which are still read and memorized by Iranian school children today.
Who is Firdawsi?
300
This is the source of fresh water for the Israeli people.
What is the Sea of Galilee?
300
These ancient people once lived in Lebanon and helped develop the region.
Who are the Phoenecians?
300
This fertile region is also called the Mashrig.
What is Levant?
300
This is an oil rich nation with Riyadh as its capital.
What is Saudi Arabia?
400
This is the ancient name for Iran.
What is Persia?
400
This is the organization of oil producing nations.
What is OPEC?
400
This is the largest river in the Middle East.
What is the Euphrates?
400
This is one of the branches of Islam.
What is Sunnism? or What is Shiism?
400
This is the world's largest sea of sand.
What is the Rub' al-Khali?
500
This country has one-fourth of the world's known oil deposits.
What is Saudi Arabia?
500
More than half of the people in the Middle East are of this cultural group.
What is Arab?
500
Scarcity makes this resource very valuable in the Middle East.
What is fresh water?
500
These are formed by colliding tectonic plates in the Middle East.
What are mountains?
500
This subregion of the Middle East was home to early civilization.
What is the Fertile Crescent?