Southwest Asia

opening in the Hindu Kush range that has served as a trade route

• Khyber Pass

• Empty Quarter

• Bedouin

• Mesopotamia

nomadic people who keep herds of camels, horses and sheep

• Khyber Pass

• Mesopotamia

• Bedouin

• Hindu Kush

world’s largest sand sea

• Khyber Pass

• Empty Quarter

• Bedouin

• Mesopotamia

means “land between two rivers

• Khyber Pass

• Bedouin

• Empty Quarter

• Mesopotamia

landlocked body of water between Israel and Jordan

• Mesopotamia

• Dead Sea

• Red Sea

• wadis

highest mountains in the region

• Hindu Kush

• Khyber Pass

• wadis

• Mesopotamia

world’s busiest waterway

• Dead Sea

• Red Sea

• Khyber Pass

• Empty Quarter

streambeds that are dry most of the year

• arid

• cuneiform

• wadis

• Empty Quarter

areas that are somewhat dry

• wadis

• cuneiform

• Bedouin

• semiarid

Islamist organization that carried out 2001 attacks on US soil

• Hindu Kush

• Bedouin

• Al-Qaeda

• wadis