Chapter 22

Question 1

What is the holiest city of Islam?

Answer 1

Mecca

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The Bedouins

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Islam

Question 4

Who was Muhammad?

Answer 4

Allah’s messenger

Question 5

What are the five pillars of Islam?

Answer 5

Faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage

Question 6

What is an Islam place of worship?

Answer 6

Mosque

Question 7

What type of government is controlled by religious leaders?

Answer 7

Theocracy

Question 8

What is the Arabian Peninsula’s principle resource?

Answer 8

Oil

Question 9

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

Answer 9

OPEC

Question 10

What percentage of Saudi Arabia’s population is urbanized?

Answer 10

83%

Question 11

How many times a day are Muslims expected to pray?

Answer 11

5

Question 12

What marks the end of Ramadan?

Answer 12

‘Id al-Fitr

Question 13

What three religions claim Jerusalem as a holy city?

Answer 13

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Question 14

What once housed Judaism’s earliest temples?

Answer 14

The Temple Mount

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Western Wall

Question 16

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

Answer 16

The Dome of the Rock

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Zionism

Question 18

What organization was formed to regain Palestine for Arabs?

Answer 18

The Palestine Liberation Organization

Question 19

What ethnic group makes up the majority of Lebanese Muslims?

Answer 19

Shi’ites

Question 20

Where do Bedouins live?

Answer 20

The Negev Desert

Question 21

Where do Christians following the Baha’i faith live?

Answer 21

Israel

Question 22

Who are the Kurds?

Answer 22

An ethnic group in Southwest Asia

Question 23

Where was Mesopotamia?

Answer 23

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Question 24

Which empire brought along the use of iron weapons?

Answer 24

The Hittites

Question 25

What are the two divisions of Muslims?

Answer 25

Sunni and Shi'ites

Question 26

What's the difference between the Sunni and Shi'ite?

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

What percentage of Muslims are Sunni?

Answer 27

83%

Question 28

What country has the largest refugee population worldwide?

Answer 28

Iran

Question 29

What discovery made Iran a center of conflict?

Answer 29

The discovery of oil

Question 30

How did Iran start the Persian Gulf War?

Answer 30

By invading Kuwait

Question 31

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

Answer 31

32

Question 32

Why did the United States topple the Taliban regime?

Answer 32

It supported terrorism.

Question 33

What was the Taliban?

Answer 33

A Muslim political group.

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Guest workers

Question 35

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

Answer 35

A stateless nation

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Palestinians

Question 37

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

Answer 37

The West Bank

Question 38

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

Answer 38

The Gaza Strip

Question 39

What is "black gold"?

Answer 39

Oil

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Strategic commodity

Question 41

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

Answer 41

64%

Question 42

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

Answer 42

34%

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Human resources