Question | Answer |
2nd largest city in Egypt. Sea port | Alexandria |
marketplace | souks |
North African country on the Mediterranean Sea | Egypt |
2nd President of Egypt | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
the ninth month of the Islamic calendar | Ramadan |
Jewish Holiday - the day of atonement | Yom Kippur |
leader of Libya since a military coup on 1 September 1969, when he overthrew King Idris and established the Libyan Arab Republic | Muammar el-Qaddafi |
fertile or green area in a desert | Oasis |
mountain range in southern Turkey, a great chain running parallel to the Mediterranean coast. The system extends along a curve from Lake Egridir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates River in the east. | Taurus Mountains |
North African country just east of Morocco | Algeria |
Capital of Saudi Arabia | Riyadh |
Capital of Egypt | Cairo |
channel connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, lying between southernmost Spain and northwesternmost Africa | Strait of Gibraltar |
name applied to a group of dialects of the Central Semitic languages, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. | Arabic |
monotheistic religion articulated by the Qur’an, a text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God. | Islam |
an immense stone sculpture of a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human...Carved from limestone | Great Sphinx |
a member of a people who move seasonally from place to place to search for food and water or pasture for their livestock | Nomads |
A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription. | Tablet |
one of the most saline bodies of water in the world, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia | Red Sea |
a civilization centered around the Phoenician city-state of Carthage, located in North Africa on the Gulf of Tunis, outside what is now Tunis, Tunisia | carthage |