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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mesopotamia | area between the tigris and euphrates river |
| wadi | a dry streambed that fills up with water after rainstorms and then dries up again |
| khat | shrub grown in Yemen whose leaves are harvested and chewed as a narcotic |
| sharia | law based on the Qur'an and the Hadith |
| medical tourism | the practice of traveling to another country to purchase health care not available in one's own country |
| kurds | ethnic groups originally from Iran that has spread to parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria |
| moshav | community settlement of farmers in Israel established by the labor Zionist party |
| kibbutz | collective community in Israel where labor, housing, andresources are shared |
| mosque | Islamic worship building |
| monotheism | the belief that there is only one God |
| synagogue | jewish building for worship |
| desalination | process of removing salt from seawater to provide drinking water |