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What is the holy journey to Mecca?
What is the ancient civilization by the
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Term for Christian holy people
A traditional market place
Who is the greatest prophet in Islam?
Muslim leaders
What is the name for the Muslim holy
month?
Early Egyptian writing
Egyptian peasant farmer
With whom did God make a covenant?
Factories that turn petroleum into other
products
Name of the Jewish nation
Define genocide
Man-made waterway that carries water
between the Mediterranean and Red Seas
Early Sumerian writing
Define enclave
Name three ways to deal with water
shortages
This country has ¼ of the world’s oil
reserves
Means “the land farthest west”
What are phosphates?
Term for illegal hunting or fishing
What is dry farming?
What is sedimentary rock?
What is silt?
What country controls the Aswan Dam?
Dry riverbeds
Define nomads
Define aquifers
What’s a kibbutz?
Name the two areas Palestine controls
Bahrain’s main industry
What’s a clan?
What thing(s) did Moses do?
Name for the dry, grassy plains
Iranians are this ethnic group
Hydroelectric dam discussed in area
What do Judaism, Christianity and Islam
have in common?
What is the holy book of Islam?
Define embargo
What physical feature covers most of
North Africa?
Main language in the Middle East
Group that attacked the US in 2001
Where does Libya get water
What is the process of removing salt
from water?
List four things about the
first Persian Gulf War
Countries with higher standards of living
have what resource?
Name two ways ancient Mesopotamia
and ancient Egypt were alike?
Give the name of the group in
Afghanistan that is against
the gov’t of Afghanistan
What three religions were born here
(in order of birth)
What is infrastructure?
How was Israel formed?
Name three things North Africa
countries have in common
What ethnic group is upset with the
US for supporting Israel?
describe cuneiform
Who is Muhammad?
Define theocracy
Define Quran
Describe Ramadan
What is a pharaoh?
Define prophets
Why is the hajj to Mecca?
What are stories about heroes?
What can’t women in Saudi Arabia do
without male chaperones?
What are the two braches of Islam and
which is larger?
Define moshav
What’s a civil war?
Define dictatorship
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
Describe multiple cropping
Turkey connects what two larger areas?
What’s a bedouin?
Name the mountains in North Africa
What is a problem with the Aswan Dam?
What is fertile soil left by a river?
(not silt)
What is the largest sea in the Middle East?
Name two problems contributing to
the Middle East’s water problem
What problem occurs with irrigation?
What are trade sanctions?
Like were used in Libya
What two seas have been damaged
by poaching and irrigation projects?
Aral and Caspian
Black and Mediterranean
Caspian and Red
Baltic and Black
Black and Red
Who set up a dictatorship in Libya?
Muhammad
Saddam Hussein
Anwar Sadat
Ariel Sharon
Muammar al-Qaddafi
About 20 percent of the Sahara is
covered by
wadis
ergs
steppe
regs
water
Oil was formed in the Persian Gulf area
when heat and pressure affected
Sedimentary rock
Air and water
Minerals and salts
Sea animals and plants
Water and minerals
What did Hammurabi’s Code
provide for Mesopotamians?
A social club
Religious laws
A money system
A legal system
A writing system
Which of the following separates
Africa from Europe
Red Sea
Strait of Hormuz
Strait of Gibraltar
Black Sea
Suez Canal