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100
This Jewish state is surrounded by Arabic speaking countries.
What is Israel?
100
The first Gulf War was fought to get Iraq out of this country.
What is Kuwait?
100
This is the name for the non-Arabic people of Iran.
What is Persian?
100
These three countries are not Arabic in the Middle East.
What is Turkey, Israel, and Iran?
100
The region's most precious resource.
What is water?
200
This strait is the only entrance into the Persian Gulf.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
200
The Second Gulf War succeeded in ousting Saddam Hussein as dictator from this country.
What is Iraq?
200
This is the big square rock that Muslims are supposed to visit once in their lifetimes.
What is the Kaaba?
200
This Christian church in Istanbul was converted to a Muslim mosque.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
200
This economic activity has caused the greatest of recent conflicts.
What is oil drilling?
300
These straits separate the European part of Turkey from the Asian part.
What are the Bosporous Straits and the Dardanelles?
300
This organization controls the price and volume of oil production throughout the Middle East.
What is OPEC (Organization of Oil Producing Countries)?
300
This city is the religious center for three great religions, Christians, Jews, and Muslim.
What is Jerusalem?
300
This sea is to the north of Turkey.
What is the Black Sea?
300
This Turkish city has had the greatest influence on trade over the centuries.
What is Istanbul (Constantinople)?
400
These mountains are in southern Iran.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
400
Tehran
What is the capital of Iran?
400
This is the name given to poor people that go to other countries to do work.
What is guest workers?
400
This river provides the majority of fresh water to Israel.
What is the Jordan River?
400
The government of Iran is run by religious leaders and is called this.
What is a theocracy?
500
These rivers in Iraq have been historically called the location of the Garden of Eden.
What are the Tigris and Eurphrates Rivers?
500
Baghdad
What is the capital of Iraq?
500
This religions art does not show human figures.
What is Muslim?
500
This country has United States military fighting wars on its east and west borders.
What is Iran?
500
These conflicting ideas are causing problems in the Middle East.
What is money from oil and the Muslim religion.