Council Rock High School SouthWorld HistoryUnit #4 – MIDDLE EAST

FINAL EXAM REVIEW

1. What is the largest religious group in the Middle East?

ISLAM

2. What does Saudi Arabia have more of than any other nation in the world?

OIL

3. What are Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics?

ANCIENT WRITINGS FOR MESOPOTMIA AND EGYPT

4. What is a definition for a Pillar of Islam?

IT’S A RESPONSIBILTY ALL MUSLIMS MUST DO

5. Name the five Pillars of Islam.

DECLARATION OF FAITH (ONE GOD, CALLE ALLAH)PRAY 5X A DAY, FACING TOWARD MECCAGIVE MONEY TO THE POORMAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA ONCE IN YOUR LIFETIMEFAST DURING MONTH OF RAMADAN DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS

6. What does the word “Islam” mean?

TO SUBMIT TO GOD

7. When praying, to what do you face?

TOWARD MECCA

8. What is the holy book for Islam?

KORAN

9. What is a Mosque?

HOLY BUILDING (LIKE A CHURCH, OR TEMPLE)

1

10. What is the Koran (can be spelled in other ways)?

HOLY BOOK FOR MUSLIMS

11. What is a Mecca?

HOLIEST CITY FOR MUSLIMS

12. Describe several nuances (ways) about the way Middle Easterners eat.

WITH HANDS (RIGHT HAND ONLY!)ON GROUNDCOMMON PLATEMEN AND WOMEN NOT TOGETHER

13. How many times are you expected to go to Mecca (for your Hajj) as a Muslim?

ONCE

Use the map below to answer the question that follows

14. I were to ask you a question like “which is the most important country in the Middle East?” – why would it be difficult to know if you were correct?

BECAUSE THE ANSWER IS AN OPINION

15. What is it about Israel that makes it attractive to Muslims, Jews and Christians alike?

THEY ALL BELIEVE THAT ISRAEL IS… HOLY TO THEIR OWN RELIGION

16. What is the name of the messenger and prophet of God, who is recognized for the founding of Islam?MUHAMMED

2

17. What religion has contributed to the social and cultural identity of the Middle East the most?

ISLAM

18. What is the religion that Israel was founded for?

JUDAISM

Use the map below to answer the question 25

19. What three continents encompass the Middle East, making it a rather strategic location?

EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA (NOT PENNSYVANIA, NOT RUSSIA, NOT LATIN AMERICA…)

3

20. What is the term for that pilgrimage (trip) you have to take to Mecca?

HAJJ

21. What nation invaded Afghanistan in the 1979?

SOVIET UNION (USSR, or RUSSIA)

22. What nation invaded Kuwait in 1990?

IRAQ (UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN)

23. How are women expected to dress in the Middle East. Why?

4