The Middle East

Question 1

First Mesopotamian civilazation

Answer 1

Sumer

Question 2

Sumerian economy was based on

Answer 2

Barter System

Question 3

Mesopotamia means

Answer 3

Land between two rivers

Question 4

First written language

Answer 4

Cuneiform

Question 5

Period before written records

Answer 5

Prehistory

Question 6

Mesopotamia is located in modern day

Answer 6

Iraq

Question 7

Sumerian economy was based on

Answer 7

A barter system

Question 8

Mesopotamia means

Answer 8

Land between to rivers

Question 9

First written language

Answer 9

Cuneiform

Question 10

Period before written records

Answer 10

Pre-history

Question 11

Pyramid of Giza contained whose tomb

Answer 11

King Khufu

Question 12

The Great Pyramids are guarded by the

Answer 12

Sphinx

Question 13

The process of drying out and preserving the body

Answer 13

Mummification

Question 14

The Egyptian period of expansion when the Pharaoh built public works and provided public welfare

Answer 14

Middle Kingdom

Question 15

Egyptian kings were called

Answer 15

Pharaohs

Question 16

Only tomb found intact

Answer 16

King Tut

Question 17

Ideograms used for formal writings

Answer 17

Hieroglyphics

Question 18

Main source of water for people of Egypt

Answer 18

The Nile River

Question 19

Pastoral nomads that later developed into Greeks, Persians, Sanskrit, and German

Answer 19

Indo-Europeans

Question 20

This group of people lived all the coast of the Mediterranean, had large trading empire and developed an alphabet that is still used.

Answer 20

Phonecians

Question 21

This King posted the first law code on 7’2 in stone tablet for all to see

Answer 21

Hammurabi

Question 22

Persian Empire was conquered by

Answer 22

Alexander the Great

Question 23

Which empire used horse drawn chariots w/ bows and arrows during attack but fell to the Chaldeans

Answer 23

Assyrians

Question 24

Hittite Empire was located in

Answer 24

Turkey

Question 25

Under Darius' rule this empire would be divided into 20 provinces known as satrapies

Answer 25

Persian Empire

Question 26

A governor like official associated with the Persian Empire

Answer 26

Satrap

Question 27

Chief of Arab tribe

Answer 27

Sheik

Question 28

They instilled fear in all they conquered

Answer 28

Assyrians

Question 29

The patron of embalming

Answer 29

Osiris

Question 30

First women to become pharaoh; would represent herself as a man

Answer 30

Hatshepsut

Question 31

Invaded Egypt to end the Middle Kingdom

Answer 31

Hyksos

Question 32

Wanted Egypt to worship one god

Answer 32

Akhenaton

Question 33

An official in charge of a bureaucracy for Pharaoh

Answer 33

Vizier

Question 34

United Upper and Lower Egypt

Answer 34

Menes

Question 35

Last Pharaoh of Egypt

Answer 35

Cleopatra

Question 36

His tomb and artifacts were untouched

Answer 36

King Tut

Question 37

Expanded the empire and was possibly the pharaoh of the Hebrew Exodus

Answer 37

Ramses II

Question 38

Chief Egyptian god

Answer 38

Ra

Question 39

Capital of Umayyed Dynasty

Answer 39

Damascus

Question 40

Successor of Muhammad

Answer 40

Caliph

Question 41

Battle stopped Muslim expansion into Gual

Answer 41

Battle of tours

Question 42

Islam means

Answer 42

Submission to the will of God

Question 43

Muslim leader during the crusades who retook the city of Jerusalem

Answer 43

Selim I

Question 44

Safavid Empire is located in modern day

Answer 44

Iran

Question 45

Founder of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 45

Osman

Question 46

Britain used this as a military strategy to defeat the Ottomans during WWI

Answer 46

Nationalism

Question 47

Mustafa Kemels success in Turkey help him gain the nick name

Answer 47

Ataturk

Question 48

Movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

Answer 48

Zionism

Question 49

After WWI, the Ottoman Empire would only consist of

Answer 49

Turkey

Question 50

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire its territories were divided between

Answer 50

British and French

Question 51

The goal of the PLO

Answer 51

Destroy Israel,and reclaim Palestine

Question 52

After WWII, what place became a British Mandate

Answer 52

Palestine

Question 53

Ayatolla means

Answer 53

Sign of Allah

Question 54

Which U.S President assisted with the Camp David Accords

Answer 54

Jimmy Carter

Question 55

Persian Gulf War was caused by

Answer 55

Iraq invading Kuwait

Question 56

This conflict ended in a United Nations ceasefire

Answer 56

Yom Kippur War

Question 57

What is a reason the Arab League would fail

Answer 57

Lack of geographic unity

Question 58

Persia became what country in 1935

Answer 58

Iran

Question 59

Who was the 1st president of the Arab League

Answer 59

Nasser