Eastern Geography Southwest Asia Review

What is an example of entrepreneurship?

In 587 B.C., the Babylonians conquered the Israelite Kingdom of Judah and?

The Dead Sea is a significant feature of the region surrounding Israel because the Dead Sea is?

What city is the center of the Islamic faith?

What is the capital of Iraq?

What religion, based on Jewish tradition, arose in the region around A.D. 30?

This organization was created to coordinate petroleum policies and owns about 2/3 of world oil

What is the capital of Israel?

Which country has the highest standard of living in the Middle East?

River that flows across a low flat plain in Iraq and joins the Euphrates river

Pressure from the Arabian Plate pressing against the Eurasian Plate created?

Body of water between Northeast Africa and Arabian Peninsula, key source of trade.

What is the capital of Iran?

Formally known as Persia, this nation held two Americans hostage for over a year.

Which country on the Arabian Peninsula that has the lowest standard of living?

The process of removing salt from salt water to create fresh water is known as?

What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?

What does ISIS stand for?

Over millions of years, heat and pressure from inside the Earth changed decaying bodies into?

The process of supplying water to areas of land to make the arable.

The region of Israel and its neighbors is important to which three religions?

What organization did Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait join in 1960?

What is the capital of Lebanon?

Which U.S. president tried to help the Palestinian and Israeli leaders at Camp David?

This city is considered as sacred to Christians, Muslims, and Jews?

The Hajj is located in this holy Islamic site in Saudi Arabia.

How has government corruption in countries in the region harmed people's standard of living?