Eastern Geography Southwest Asia Review

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

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

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

What is the capital of Iran?

What city is the center of the Islamic faith?

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

What is an example of entrepreneurship?

What does ISIS stand for?

What is the capital of Israel?

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

What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the capital of Lebanon?

What is the capital of Iraq?

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