Middle East

Question 1

Agricultural Revolution

Answer 1

people go from nomadic hunter-gatherers to cities and civilization by the use of farming

Question 2

Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

Answer 2

fight for the land of Israel and Jerusalem

Question 3

Cuneiform

Answer 3

first form of writing, invented by the Sumerians

Question 4

first written law code

Answer 4

Code of Hammurabi

Question 5

Fertile Crescent

Answer 5

area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers where civilization began

Question 6

Phoenicians

Answer 6

Mesopotamian civilization, spreaders of language and culture, ship traders

Question 7

Persians

Answer 7

largest Mesopotamian civilization, religion was Zoroastrianism

Question 8

Sumerians

Answer 8

Mesopotamian civilization, built ziggurats and the wheel

Question 9

Assyrians

Answer 9

Mesopotamian civilization, large army, used iron weapons, mail route

Question 10

Bar/Bat Mitzvah

Answer 10

coming of age ceremony for Jews

Question 11

Allah

Answer 11

God of Islam

Question 12

5 pillars of Islam

Answer 12

1. Profess Faith in Allah
2. Pray 5 times a day
3. Give to the poor
4. Fast for one month
5. pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 13

War in Iraq

Answer 13

US troops went into Iraq searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction (they were never found) and troops are still there establishing a peaceful government

Question 14

Persian Gulf War

Answer 14

Iraq invaded Kuwait and took all their oil reserves, US troops respond and kick out Iraq in 100 hours (Desert Storm)

Question 15

Zionism

Answer 15

movement of Jews back to their homeland of Israel

Question 16

Mecca

Answer 16

most holy city to Muslims, pilgrimage there once in a lifetime

Question 17

Holy city to Christian, Muslims, and Jews

Answer 17

Jerusalem

Question 18

Balfour Declaration

Answer 18

British document promising Jews Israel