North Africa 18.2 East Mediterranean 18.3 Northwest 18.4 Arabian Peninsula 18.5 Central Asia

Most people in Egypt live in this region.

Nile Delta Region

Arabs brought these two things with them when they moved to North Africa.

Language and religion

This is Egypt’s most populated city, known as a primate city.

Cairo

Egypt controlled this trade route which made them very powerful.

Suez Canal

These people were indigenous to North Africa before the Arabs arrived.

Berbers

As a result of conflict in Palestine, Palestinians fled to other countries where they established this.

Refugee camps

This group wants a country where the Gaza Strip and West Bank currently sit.

Palestinians

These three religions are native to the Mediterranean.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

The three religions from the Mediterranean have this belief in common.

Monotheism

Which group expelled the Jews from their homeland?

The Romans

The Kurds have lived on the boundaries between these three countries for more than 2000 years

Turkey, Iran, Iraq

The Ottoman empire existed in this modern day country.

Turkey

These two countries have the highest population in the Northeast.

Turkey Iran

Mountains, rivers, and oceans, like the Zagros Mountains, create this type of boundary.

Natural

This group, credited with inventing the alphabet, has been trading in the Mediterranean since 3000 B.C.

Phoenicians

These are the two main sects of Islam found in the Arabian Peninsula.

Sunni and Shia

Islamic religious art prohibits displays of living people. What designs do they focus on instead?

Floral and Geometric designs

These two countries are ruled by emirs.

Kuwait Qatar

Which person rules over sheikdoms?

Islamic religious leaders

This law is based on the Qaran.

Shari’ah Law

Turkish people who live outside of Turkey probably live here.

Central Asia

Armenia, being distinct from other cultures surrounding it, is defined as this.

Enclave

Azerbaijan, a country with an unique culture that is mostly isolated from the main culture, is classified as this.

Exclave

After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, what happened to the other countries under Soviet control?

They declared independence.

The Caucasus region is made up mostly of these two ethnic groups.

Armenians and Georgians