Middle East Vocab

This is in the desert, a streambed that is dry except during a heavy rain

• Wadi

• Kibbutz

• Moshav

• Mosque

Hieroglyphics is an ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures and symbols represent words or sounds

• Ture

• False

A member of the nomadic desert peoples of North Africa and Southwest Asia are called__________.

• Bedouin

• Nomad

• Moshav

• Qunat

A __________ is a large temple built by the Sumerians

• Mosque

• Marsh

• Ziggurat

• Simoom

A branch of Islam that regards Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali and the imams as his rightful successors.

• Shia

• Sunni

• Shi'ite

A branch of Islam that regards the first four successors of Muhammad as his rightful successors

• Shia

• Sunni

• Shi'ite

Sheikhdom is a territory ruled by an Arab tribal leader

• True

• False

Islamic law derived from the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad

• Koran

• Mecca

• Haaj

• Shari'ah

In Islam, the yearly pilgrimage to Makkah that Muslims must make at least once in a lifetime is called _______.

• Mujahideen

• Cuneiform

• Haaj

• Qunat

An ethnic group without a formal state

• Ziggurat

• Stateless Nation

• Nomad

• Bedouin