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1
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What is the holiest city of Islam?

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Mecca

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What nomadic desert dwellers moved across the Arabian Peninsula, spreading Islam?

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The Bedouins

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What monotheistic religion is based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad?

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Islam

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Who was Muhammad?

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Allah’s messenger

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What are the five pillars of Islam?

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Faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage

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What is an Islam place of worship?

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Mosque

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What type of government is controlled by religious leaders?

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Theocracy

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What is the Arabian Peninsula’s principle resource?

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Oil

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What organization helps members control worldwide oil prices by adjusting oil prices and production quotas?

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OPEC

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What percentage of Saudi Arabia’s population is urbanized?

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83%

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How many times a day are Muslims expected to pray?

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5

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What marks the end of Ramadan?

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‘Id al-Fitr

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What three religions claim Jerusalem as a holy city?

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Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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What once housed Judaism’s earliest temples?

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The Temple Mount

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What’s the portion of the Second Temple where Jews come to pray called?

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Western Wall

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What shrine houses the spot where Muslims believe Muhammad rose to heaven?

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The Dome of the Rock

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What is the movement to create and support a Jewish homeland in Palestine?

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Zionism

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What organization was formed to regain Palestine for Arabs?

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The Palestine Liberation Organization

19
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What ethnic group makes up the majority of Lebanese Muslims?

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Shi’ites

20
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Where do Bedouins live?

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The Negev Desert

21
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Where do Christians following the Baha’i faith live?

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Israel

22
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Who are the Kurds?

A

An ethnic group in Southwest Asia

23
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Where was Mesopotamia?

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The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

24
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Which empire brought along the use of iron weapons?

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The Hittites

25
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What are the two divisions of Muslims?

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Sunni and Shi’ites

26
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What’s the difference between the Sunni and Shi’ite?

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The Sunnis believe the next caliphate should be a descendant of Muhammad while the Shi’ites believe it should be the strongest member of the strongest tribe.

27
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What percentage of Muslims are Sunni?

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83%

28
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What country has the largest refugee population worldwide?

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Iran

29
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What discovery made Iran a center of conflict?

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The discovery of oil

30
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How did Iran start the Persian Gulf War?

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By invading Kuwait

31
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The United States and how many other nations fought to drive Iran out of Kuwait?

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32

32
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Why did the United States topple the Taliban regime?

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It supported terrorism.

33
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What was the Taliban?

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A Muslim political group.

34
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Who are unskilled laborers recruited from outside a country to fill jobs a region’s people find unacceptable?

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Guest workers

35
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What is a nation without a land to legally occupy known as?

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A stateless nation

36
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What are Arabs and their descendants living in the area formerly known as Palestine called?

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Palestinians

37
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What’s the strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River?

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The West Bank

38
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What’s the territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula?

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The Gaza Strip

39
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What is “black gold”?

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Oil

40
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What is a resource so important that nations will go to war to ensure it’s steady supply?

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Strategic commodity

41
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What percentage of the world’s oil is found in Southwest Asia?

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64%

42
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What percentage of the world’s natural gas is found in Southwest Asia?

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34%

43
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What are the skills and talents of a nation’s people known as?

A

Human resources

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