Physical Geography
This type of mud, produced by the flooding of the Nile River is crucial to enriching the soil.
What is silt?
The Arabian Peninsula is this type of climate.
What is desert?
The area of Mesopotamia, in the Fertile crescent would be found in this modern day country?
What is Iraq?
This is the most practice religion in the world.
What is Christianity?
Israel and this Arab country have had a long lasting violent conflict since Israel was re-established.
What is Palestine?
Mesopotamia existed between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Desalination is a process which removes this from ocean water.
What is salt?
Name of the empire which controlled most of North Africa, Southwest and Central Asia from 1300-1922.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
What is the Quran?
The Mediterranean and the Red Sea are connected by this man made feature in Egypt.
What is the Suez Canal?
Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, all drill for oil found beneath this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
On average, how much rainfall does the Sahara receive each year?
What is 3 inches?
The world's first known written legal code was called this.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A monotheistic religion has only one of these.
What is one god?
This is the largest oil producing county in the region.
What is Saudi Arabia?
The Strait of Gibraltar separates what European and African countries?
What is Spain and Morocco.
Fertile area's in the desert are called this.
What is an Oasis?
The historic scattering of Jewish people from their homeland was called this.
What is diaspora?
The 5th pillar of Islam requires Islamic people to take a Hajj to this location.
What is Mecca in Saudi Arabia?
In 2003, this leader of Iraq was overthrown after a U.S. invasion.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have over used this body of water to produce cotton.
What is the Aral Sea?
What are aquifers?
The war between the U.S. and Iraq in the 1990's fought in Kuwait is called this in America.
What is the Gulf War?
The holy month on the Islamic calendar is called this, a month when Islamic people are expected to fast.
What is Ramadan?
This country faced a terrible genocide during WWI which killed at least 600,000 people.
What is Armenia?