Round 1
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Kosher
Muhammad
Mosque
Love
Torah
Who received the Ten
Commandments?
7. Who is the leader of the Catholic
Church?
8. Who built the first Jewish Temple?
9. Which city is the holiest for Islam?
10. What is a person who dies in the
name of their religion called?
6.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Judaism
Islam
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Moses
7. Pope
8. Solomon
9. Mecca
10.Martyr
6.
Round 2
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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?
?
?
?
What is the leader of the Muslims
called?
7. What is the second holiest city in
Islam?
8. What is the holy site where
Muslims face when praying?
9. What is the holy Pilgrimage
called?
10. What is the journey Muhammad
and his followers took when they
left Mecca called?
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Belief in 1
god
Pray 5 times
a day
Ramadan
Pilgrimage
to Mecca
(Hajj)
Caliph
7. Medina
8. Kaaba
(Mecca)
9. Hajj
10.Hedjra
6.
Round 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What is the name of the series of holy
wars started by European Christians
against Muslims?
What is the name of the Muslim
leader that defeated the European
invaders?
As a result of its religious
importance, what is a term used for
Jerusalem?
What is a non-Muslim community in
the Ottoman Empire called?
What is a term used for king in the
Which empire conquered most of the
Middle East and held control until the
early 1900s?
7. Which group came from East Asia
(near China), then converted to Islam?
8. Which group’s invasion weakened the
Christian Byzantine Empire?
9. Which group were rivals of the
Ottomans?
10. What major event caused the end of
the Ottoman Empire?
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Crusades
Saladin
Holy Land
Millet
Shah
Ottoman
7. Mongol
8. Safavid
9. Seljuk
10.World War 1
6.
Round 4
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Where did most people in the Middle
East live – villages, cities, or nowhere
(nomads)?
What is a nomad in the Middle East
called?
What is the term for a marketplace in
a Middle Eastern city?
Why are there still nomads in the
Middle East?
What is one of the three main reasons
for a city to develop?
What did most nomads do for a living?
7. What kind of relationship existed
between the nomads and the
villagers?
8. What did Islam do for women in terms
of property?
9. According to Islam, what is the
relationship between women and their
fathers or husbands?
10. What did Islam do for women’s
presence in the community?
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Villages
Bedouin
Suq
Lack of
water
Capital,
caravn stop,
or religious
Herder
7. conflict
8. Right to
inherit/own it
9. Obey/subordin
ate
10.Seclusion/sep
aration/veil
6.
Round 5
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What is the term for strong love or
pride in one’s country?
What is the term for when one country
conquers another?
How did World War I directly impact the
Ottoman Empire?
What what was a common cause of
rising nationalism in Egypt and Iran?
What were the Arab people promised
for helping to fight against the
Ottomans in WWI?
Who was a nationalist leader in Egypt?
7. Who was a nationalist leader in
Turkey?
8. Who was a nationalist leader in Iran?
9. What was a common goal of all three
leaders??
10. Why did the result of WWI anger the
Arab people?
6.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Nationalism
Imperialism
Broke it apart
Foreign
influence
Independence
/control of
land
Muhammad Ali
7. Kamal Ataturk
8. Reza Khan
9. modernize
10.French &
British broke
promise
6.