Culture
Term for the study of people and how they live their lives.
What is culture?
What is false? It is a region or subcontinent.
This religion is the most practiced today in the Middle East.
What is Islam?
Israeli Jews have been involved in a dispute over land with this ethnic group.
Who are Palestinians?
Northern Africa is occupied almost entirely by this physical feature.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Term for the spread of an element of culture from one group to another. Example: Baseball starting in the United States and being found in Japan today.
What is cultural diffusion?
Name one of the three geographic subregions of the Middle East.
What are the Northern Tier, the Fertile Crescent, and the Arabian Peninsula?
True or false: Muslims, Christians, and Jews all believe in the same God.
Prior to the British, this group controlled Palestine (hint: it was before WWI).
Identify two major African religions.
What are the Nile, Limpopo, Orange, Benue, Senegal, Congo, Zambezi rivers?
In Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, this is what Maslow said people/societies need to focus on first.
What are Basic or Physiological Needs?
Term for the Middle Eastern/Arab traditional social practice where a man can take as many as four wives.
What is polygyny?
Name an individual that played a role in the spread of all three Middle Eastern religions.
Who is the prophet Abraham?
Term for the movement that supported the establishment of a Jewish State.
What is Zionism?
After Islam and Christianity, this is the third most common religion found in Africa today.
What are traditional or Indigenous religions?
Name three of the four factors of cultural change.
What are (cultural) Diffusion, (changes to the) Environment, New Ideas, and Technology?
"DENT"
This Arabic term loosely translates to "to conceal" or "cover" when translated into English.
What is hijab?
Name the holy text for all three religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam).
What are the Bible (C), Torah (J), and Qur'an (I)?
What are HAMAS and the Palestinian Authority (Fatah)?
Identify three languages you would commonly hear in any part of Africa today.
What are Swahili, Arabic, English, French, Afrikaans, Yoruba, Xhosa, Mandinka, Hausa? And so much more!
Name TWO of the six contributing factors to development. Hint: this is the "rowers" hypothesis.
What are 1) Institutions & Infrastructure, 2) Physical Geography & Available Resources, 3) Political & Economic Freedoms, 4) Consumerism/Disposable Income, 5) Political Stability, and 6) Economic Diversity & Complexity.
Name FIVE of the seven ethnic groups we studied in the Middle East.
What are 1) Arabs 2) Palestinians 3) Turks 4) Kurds 5) Israeli Jews 6) Persians and 7) Armenians
Christianity - What are Easter & Christmas?
Judaism - What are Hanukkah, Passover, Yom Kippur, and Rosh Hashanah?
Islam - What are Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, and Eid al-Adha
Name of the Lebanon-based Shia group that has supported Palestine/HAMAS in their opposition of Israel.
What is Hezbollah?
This region of Africa is "ripe" conditions for terrorist groups to thrive, due to ungoverned terrain, little to no vegetation, high levels of poverty and diverse populations.
What is the Sahel?