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World Cultures North Africa Southwest Asia And Central Asia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Large - mud-brick temples shaped like pyramids
Ziggurats
Oasis
Exclave
Hajj
2. Africa's longest mountain range
Enclave
Atlas Mountains
Natural Boundary
Persian Empire
3. Streambeds that remain dry until a heavy rain
Shari'ah
Wadis
Alluvial Soil
Mujahideen
4. A belief in the right of an ethnic group to have its own independent country
Hieroglyphics
Nationalism
Landlocked
Alluvial Soil
5. A form of picture writing invented by the Egyptians
Crude Oil
Hieroglyphics
Monotheism
Aquifers
6. The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mesopotamia
Bedouin
Geometric Boundaries
Monotheism
7. Adapting plants and animals from the wild for such uses as food - clothing - and transportation
Cereals
Domesticate
Suez Canal
Crude Oil
8. A place in the desert where underground water surfaces
Nationalism
Infrastructure
Pastoralism
Oasis
9. Petroleum that has not yet been refined
Arable
Embargo
Mosque
Crude Oil
10. A process by which salt is removed from seawater
Cuneiform
Enclave
Desalination
Petrochemicals
11. During 500 B.C. - this empire extended across the region
Petrochemicals
Desalination
Persian Empire
Mesopotamia
12. A fixed limit or extent defined along physical geographic features such as mountains and rivers
Geometric Boundaries
Natural Boundary
Hieroglyphics
Commodities
13. Often follow straight lines and do no account for natural and cultural features (exist between Libya - Egypt - and Algeria)
Commodities
Infrastructure
Geometric Boundaries
Atlas Mountains
14. A house of worship where Muslims pray
Mosque
Ziggurats
Enclave
Monotheism
15. A form of Islam practiced in Oman
Ibadhism
Aquifers
Bedouin
Atlas Mountains
16. Messengers
Exclave
Prophets
Hieroglyphics
Oasis
17. Groups of people who move from place to place depending on the season and availability of grass for grazing and water
Shari'ah
Wadis
Commodities
Nomads
18. Africa's longest mountain range
Atlas Mountains
Domesticate
Infrastructure
Desalination
19. A territory that is culturally or ethnically different from surrounding larger cultures
Enclave
Cereals
Infrastructure
Nationalism
20. The primary gateway for Arabs migrating to North Africa
Landlocked
Ziggurats
Emirs
Egypt
21. Often follow straight lines and do no account for natural and cultural features (exist between Libya - Egypt - and Algeria)
Geometric Boundaries
Prophets
Hajj
Culture Hearths
22. Deserts
Qanats
Fertile Crescent
kums
Domesticate
23. Suitable for farming
Arable
kums
Enclave
Shari'ah
24. A fixed limit or extent defined along physical geographic features such as mountains and rivers
Mosque
Hajj
Wadis
Natural Boundary
25. The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Nationalism
Enclave
Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
26. Deserts
Nomads
Mosque
Hajj
kums
27. A house of worship where Muslims pray
Egypt
Cereals
kums
Mosque
28. Afghan freedom fighters
Bedouin
Sahara
Mujahideen
Desalination
29. The largest desert in the world which covers most of North Africa
Emirs
Sahara
Phosphate
Sheikhdoms
30. Being almost or entirely surrounded by land
Natural Boundary
Crude Oil
Nationalism
Landlocked
31. Products derived from petroleum or natural gas
Exclave
Petrochemicals
Mujahideen
Infrastructure
32. A belief in the right of an ethnic group to have its own independent country
Persian Empire
Natural Boundary
Nationalism
Ziggurats
33. Food grains such as barley - oats - and wheat
Cuneiform
Alluvial Soil
Fertile Crescent
Cereals
34. An important shipping lane that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea across Egypt
Domesticate
Mujahideen
Suez Canal
Wadis
35. Being almost or entirely surrounded by land
Ziggurats
Landlocked
Cuneiform
Mosque
36. A form of picture writing invented by the Egyptians
Mujahideen
Hieroglyphics
Embargo
Atlas Mountains
37. Territories ruled by an Islamic religious leader
Sheikhdoms
Enclave
Ibadhism
Fertile Crescent
38. Economic goods
Ziggurats
Commodities
Ziggurats
Landlocked
39. Rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water
Persian Empire
Atlas Mountains
Cuneiform
Alluvial Soil
40. Princes
Phosphate
Hieroglyphics
Emirs
Cereals
41. A form of Islam practiced in Oman
Monotheism
Ziggurats
Commodities
Ibadhism
42. Pilgrimage
Landlocked
Hieroglyphics
Hajj
Suez Canal
43. Products derived from petroleum or natural gas
Shari'ah
Natural Boundary
Petrochemicals
Mosque
44. The primary gateway for Arabs migrating to North Africa
Sahara
Egypt
Phosphate
Desalination
45. Large - mud-brick temples shaped like pyramids
kums
Ziggurats
Oasis
Infrastructure
46. Pilgrimage
Hajj
Bedouin
Mesopotamia
Suez Canal
47. Islamic law
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48. Underground canals
Emirs
Petrochemicals
Cuneiform
Qanats
49. The raising and grazing of livestock
kums
Oasis
Pastoralism
Persian Empire
50. A place in the desert where underground water surfaces
Exclave
Cereals
Oasis
Egypt