1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 18.1 North Africa 18.2 East Mediterranean 18.3 Northwest 18.4 Arabian Peninsula 18.5 Central Asia

2. Most people in Egypt live in this region.

3. Nile Delta Region

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

5. Language and religion

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

7. Cairo

8. Egypt controlled this trade route which made them very powerful.

9. Suez Canal

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

11. Berbers

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

13. Refugee camps

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

15. Palestinians

16. These three religions are native to the Mediterranean.

17. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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

19. Monotheism

20. Which group expelled the Jews from their homeland?

21. The Romans

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

23. Turkey, Iran, Iraq

24. The Ottoman empire existed in this modern day country.

25. Turkey

26. These two countries have the highest population in the Northeast.

27. Turkey Iran

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

29. Natural

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

31. Phoenicians

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

33. Sunni and Shia

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

35. Floral and Geometric designs

36. These two countries are ruled by emirs.

37. Kuwait Qatar

38. Which person rules over sheikdoms?

39. Islamic religious leaders

40. This law is based on the Qaran.

41. Shari’ah Law

42. Turkish people who live outside of Turkey probably live here.

43. Central Asia

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

45. Enclave

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

47. Exclave

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

49. They declared independence.

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

51. Armenians and Georgians