Middle East Review

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Middle EastReview

• Spring 2011
• MAD

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QUESTION 1

• What is another term that describes the region of
  Southwest Asia?
• MIDDLE EAST

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QUESTION 5

• What is the name of the land inhabited by
  Palestinian Arabs but controlled by Israel west
  of the Jordan River?
• WEST BANK

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QUESTION 9

• What is the name of the sea that is part of the
  Indian Ocean near the countries of India,
  Pakistan, Iran, and the Arabian Peninsula?
• ARABIAN SEA

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QUESTION 11

• What dry and mountainous landlocked country that
  once had the Taliban government borders Pakistan
  and Iran?
• AFGHANISTAN

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QUESTION 13

• What country in the Middle East borders the
  Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and
  Lebanon and is considered the holy land to the
  religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
• ISRAEL

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QUESTION 16

• Turkey has built dams on the Tigris and Euphrates
  Rivers to generate hydroelectric power. Syria
  and Iraq complain that Turkey uses too much of
  the water. This environmental issue involves
• Water rights

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QUESTION 20

• Which country in the Middle East has the most oil
  reserves in the world and uses profits from this
  industry to build schools, roads, and provide
  jobs for its citizens?
• SAUDI ARABIA

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QUESTION 15

• What resource is scarce (in very limited supply)
  in the Middle East due to its arid (dry) climate?
  
• FRESH WATER

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QUESTION 21

• What is the name of the organization that
  consists of countries that have an abundance of
  oil and control the price and supply of petroleum
  (oil) they produce?
• O.P.E.C. - Organization of Petroleum Exporting
  Countries

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QUESTION 23

• What agricultural method of acquiring water does
  Israel and other countries use to grow crops in
  dry regions of the country?
• IRRIGATION

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QUESTION 30

• What are the three types of economic systems in
  the world?
• TRADITIONAL COMMAND MARKET

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QUESTION 25

• What is the name of Islamic law that some middle
  east countries use to govern their people that is
  based on strict rules from the Koran?
• SHARIA LAW

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QUESTION 3

• What two rivers begin in Turkey and eventually
  flow into Syria and Iraq before going into the
  Persian Gulf?
• EUPHRATES and TIGRIS RIVERS

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QUESTION 7

• What narrow body of water connects the Persian
  Gulf to the Arabian Sea and is an important
  waterway for oil trading countries in the Middle
  East?
• STRAIT OF HORMUZ

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QUESTION 12

• What is the large country on the Arabian
  Peninsula that is very dry and borders the Red
  Sea, Arabian Sea, and Persian Gulf?
• SAUDI ARABIA

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QUESTION 10

• What small country with lots of oil borders the
  Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia?
• KUWAIT

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QUESTION 14

• What large country borders Iraq, Turkey,
  Afghanistan, and Pakistan and used to be part of
  the Persian Empire?
• IRAN

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QUESTION 24

• What type of economic system is found in Saudi
  Arabia, in which the government controls basic
  industries like oil and farming and does not
  allow the citizens to have businesses and profit
  by selling their products?
• COMMAND ECONOMY

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QUESTION 22

• Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait all border
  the Persian Gulf and are members of OPEC. What
  resource do these countries rely on to become
  rich and build their economy?
• OIL

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QUESTION 27

• What kind of government exists in Saudi Arabia in
  which King Abdullah has complete control over the
  countrys government and most of its economy?
• UNITARY or MONARCHY

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QUESTION 26

• What type of government is ruled by religion?
• THEOCRATIC

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QUESTION 26 cont.

• Which country in the Middle East has this type of
  government where there is a supreme religious
  leader (Ayatollah Khamenei) and a president
  (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)?
• IRAN

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QUESTION 28

• Which country has a parliamentary democracy with
  a president and prime minister while a powerful
  legislature called the Knesset that is influence
  by Jewish Law?
• ISRAEL

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QUESTION 32

• What are the three monotheistic religions that
  originated in Mesopotamia in the Middle East?
• JUDAISM
• CHRISTIANITY
• ISLAM

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QUESTION 31

• What is the name of a good that is bought and
  shipped into the country because they dont have
  enough to meet their own countrys demand?
• IMPORT

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QUESTION 2

• What river shares a border between Israel and
  Jordan and is part of a dispute between these
  countries over the valuable resource of fresh
  water?
• JORDAN RIVER

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QUESTION 17

• The extraction of what abundant resource in the
  Middle East causes a lot of air, soil, and water
  pollution?
• OIL (PETROLEUM)

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QUESTION 4

• What is the name of the sea that separates Africa
  from Asia that borders Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
• RED SEA

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QUESTION 18

• What body of water in Egypt that connects the Red
  Sea to the Mediterranean Sea is considered a very
  important trade route?
• SUEZ CANAL

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QUESTION 8

• What is the name of the gulf in the Middle East
  that borders oil rich nations such as Saudi
  Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran?
• PERSIAN GULF

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QUESTION 6

• What is the name of the narrow strip of land in
  Israel that is close to Egypt that is a source of
  tension between Arabs and Jews?
• GAZA STRIP

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QUESTION 19

• What resource is plentiful in the Middle East
  that they are able to export for a profit that
  helps their economies?
• OIL

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QUESTION 29

• What is the name of a good that is a surplus
  (extra) in one country and is sold and shipped
  out to another country?
• EXPORT

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QUESTION 36

• Place of worship for Jews?
• SYNAGOGUE
• Christians?
• CHURCH
• Muslims?
• MOSQUE 

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QUESTION 33

• What was the 1st religion to believe in only one
  God that was founded by Abraham that developed in
  Canaan, which is modern day Palestine and Israel?
  
• JUDAISM

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QUESTION 45

• What are the two main sects (groups) of Muslims
  that disagree over who should succeed (replace)
  Muhammad as the leader of Islam?
• SUNNI AND SHIA (SHIITE)

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QUESTION 39

• What is the religious text for Judaism?
• TORAH
• Christianity?
• BIBLE
• Islam?
• QURAN

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QUESTION 42

• What are the most important teachings of Islam?
• FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM

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QUESTION 34

• What city in Israel is considered holy to the
  three major religions that began in the Middle
  East Southwest Asia?
• JERUSALEM

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QUESTION 37

• What religion teaches that there is one god and
  that Muhammad is the prophet?
• ISLAM

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QUESTION 46

• Which Muslim group makes up a majority of all
  Muslims in the world (85) and believes that the
  people should decide who is the Islamic leader
  and successor to Muhammad?
• SUNNI

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QUESTION 40

• Followers of Judaism?
• JEWS
• Christianity?
• CHRISTIANS
• Islam?
• MUSLIMS

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QUESTION 43

• What religion later spread into the Roman empire
  and eventually became the dominant religion in
  Europe?
• CHRISTIANITY

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QUESTION 38

• The origins (beginnings) of Islam started in what
  city in Saudi Arabia?
• MECCA

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QUESTION 41

• Who was the founder of Judaism?
• ABRAHAM
• Christianity?
• JESUS
• Islam?
• MUHAMMAD

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QUESTION 48

• What religion was founded by Jesus Christ that
  continues the teachings of Judaism and teaches
  about love and forgiveness?
• CHRISTIANITY

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QUESTION 35

• What is the term that defines a religion as
  worshipping just one God?
• MONOTHEISM

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QUESTION 44

• Which religion would spread due to migration and
  military factors from Saudi Arabia into the rest
  of the Middle East, North Africa, Western Europe,
  and parts of South/east Asia?
• ISLAM

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QUESTION 47

• Which Muslim group makes up a minority (15) of
  all Muslims in the world and believes that
  Muhammads successor should be a descendent or
  relative of Muhammad?
• SHIA / SHIITE

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QUESTION 60

• While Judaism and Christianity are practiced in
  Southwest Asia, what religion is most common in
  the Middle East?
• ISLAM

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QUESTION 54

• What is the name of the conflict between the two
  ethnic groups that claim the land of Israel and
  Palestine?
• PALESTINIAN ISRAELI CONFLICT

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QUESTION 57

• After the terrorist group al-Qaeda led by Osama
  bin Laden used airplanes to attack the United
  States on 9/11/2001which country did the United
  States invade because we believed they helped
  train the terrorists?
• AFGHANISTAN

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QUESTION 51

• What genocide event is associated with the
  killing of 6 million Jews in by Adolph Hitler in
  Germany during World War II?
• HOLOCAUST

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QUESTION 50

• What is the term that describes the
  discrimination and prejudice views toward Jewish
  people that was popular in Europe before World
  War II?
• ANTI-SEMITISM

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QUESTION 53

• What nation was created in 1947 in order to allow
  Jews persecuted in Europe to return to their holy
  land?
• ISRAEL

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QUESTION 56

• Who was the leader of this country that invaded
  Kuwait? (Hint He was hanged in 2006 for his
  war crimes committed against his own people)
• SADDAM HUSSEIN

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QUESTION 59

• Why did the United States invade Iraq in 2003 and
  overthrow their leader Saddam Hussein?
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Oil interest
• Democracy in the Region

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QUESTION 52

• What was the name of the movement to give Jews
  around the world their own country in their
  original homeland (Palestine)?
• ZIONISM

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QUESTION 58

• What was the name of the military operation when
  the United States invaded Iraq in 2003?
• OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM

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QUESTION 55

• Which country invaded Kuwait in the early 1990s
  in order to take its land and oil?
• IRAQ
• What was the name of this war?
• GULF WAR DESERT STORM

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QUESTION 49

• Where do the following ethnic groups live -Arabs?
  
• MOST OF MIDDLE EAST
• Persians?
• IRAN
• Kurds?
• IRAQ, IRAN, TURKEY