1. What is the primary geographic feature of the Middle East region?
2. What is irrigation?
3. What are the three major religions of the Middle East? What are their followers
called?
4. What does the term monotheistic mean?
5. What is the holy book for each of these religions?
6. Who is the founder for each of these religions?
7. What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
8. What is a theocracy?
9. Why was there conflict over Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs?
10.What is this region’s major resource?
11.What is OPEC? What do they do?
12.What is a Primary product? Example?
13.What is a secondary product? Example?
14.What is the dominant religion in this region?
15.What is a Haj? Where do they go during their Haj?
16.What is Ramadan?
17.In what ways has the Arab world been westernized?
18.What is the role of women in the Arab world?
19.What is the importance of the Suez Canal?
20.Who was Egypt’s most famous leader? What projects did he start?
21.Along the Nile, what is the major export? What is the capitol of Egypt?
22.What is the official religion of Israel?
23.What is the law of return?
24.Which Turkish leader wanted to westernize the country?
25.Why does Turkey value its membership in NATO?