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100
The six countries of the Middle East.
What are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, UAE, and Yemen?
100
Climates that dominate the region.
What is hot and dry climates?
100
Dominant religion in the region.
What is Islam?
100
The basis of the Middle Eastern economy.
What are the oil and gas productions?
100
This organization that influences oil prices by controlling the supply.
What is the OPEC?
200
The forces that shaped the landscape.
What is tectonic forces?
200
Produces more humid climates.
What is an orographic effect?
200
The creator of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
200
What most farmers practice to support their families.
What is subsistence farming?
200
A power that controls absolute rules.
What is a conservative monarchy?
300
Between the rivers.
What is Mesopotamia
300
Plants that cover the dry plains.
What are shrubs and grasses?
300
Islam's holiest city.
What is Mecca?
300
Nomadic herders.
What are Bedouins?
300
This country is ruled by a dictator.
What is Iraq?
400
An area where spring bubbles to the surface.
What is an oasis?
400
Region among the hottest places in the world.
What are the lowlands of Saudi Arabia?
400
Conquered Mesopotamia in the 1500's.
What are the Ottoman Turks?
400
Tehran, Baghdad, Kabul, and Riyadh.
What are the national capitals?
400
This country has a special position in world affairs.
What is Saudi Arabia?
500
Mountains east of the Mesopotamia.
What is the Zagros?
500
Winter rains from the westerly winds of the middle latitudes.
What is cyclonic storms?
500
The two main branches of Islam.
What are Sunni, and Imams?
500
Bringing in food from other countries.
What is importing food?
500
Unstable politics in this particular country.
What is Iran?