M7: Middle East Test

The Palestinians consider the Jewish settlements in the West Bank as

A Sunni Muslim terrorist organization

By the time of the cease fire about five weeks later, Iraq had lost an estimated 25,000 soldiers.

Jews and Palestinian Arabs make up most of the population of what country?

A wet, fertile area in a desert where a spring or well provides water

War of sticks and stones

The name given to the American-led attack on Iraqi forces, began on January 16, 1991.

Mecca is the birthplace of what religion?

A limit on trade

A government that is ruled by religious leaders

Which of the following BEST describes the climate of Southwest Asia?

Largest peninsula in the world

Which of these is not one of the five pillars of Islam?

9/11 took place on 

The scarcity of which resource has shaped the history of Southwest Asia?                    

Person who leaves his or her homeland for a safer place

The dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel

The climate in Southwest Asia is primarily _______________________.

What country has the largest oil reserves in the world and is the leader of OPEC?

Scattering of Jewish people from Israel

What city of the world do Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all have origins?

Where did the Zionist movement begin?

What is the name of the mountain range between Afghanistan and Pakistan?

Organization that influences the world’s oil prices

Belief in only one God

Muslims who believe that true interpretation of Islamic teaching can only come from imams (leaders)

A drastic change in a country’s government and way of life

What country controls the Gaza Strip and West Bank?

Over 90% of the North African and Arabian Peninsulas are

Muslims who believe in the ability of the majority of the community to interpret Islamic teachings

This Sea is landlocked and is much smaller than the other Seas in the region?

All were civilizations that first settled in Iraq EXCEPT for:

Keeping religion separate from the government

Which of these is NOT an occupied territory of Israel?

Which of the following BEST describes the climate of the countries Israel and Turkey?

Belief that Jews should have their own nation

Which U.S. President was involved with the Camp David Accords?

Belief that Jewish people should have their own homeland

Which side did the United States support in the Syrian Civil War?

Al Qaeda was led by a wealthy man from Saudi Arabia, named Hitler. 

From what city did Islam spread?

American deaths totaled 148 in Operation Iraqi Freedom 

Which of these events took place at the end of WWII?

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein hoped to take control of 

The U.S. got involved in the Iraq War in 2002 after _______________ refused to step down.

What triggered the first Persian Gulf War in the 1990s?

The Crusades were a series of wars fought between what two religions?

50% of the world's oil comes from all of the following countries EXCEPT for:

To have control