ARISTOTELES LEVALLOIS´MIDDLE EAST AND EASTERN EUROPE DRILL

GENERAL REVIEW FOR MIDDLE EAST AND EUROPE     DR. LEVALLOIS HERNANDEZ

NAME:_____________________________________DATE:_____________________

1.       CIRCLE THE COUNTRIES THAT BELONG TO THE MIDDLE EAST, UNDERLINE THE ONES THAT BELONG TO EUROPE

FRANCE         ITALY       TURKEY     ISRAEL      CYPRUS      SPAIN       ANDORRA    LATVIA     LITHUANIA

LEBANON    YEMEN      OMAN      BAHRAIN    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES    BELGIUM       SYRIA      IRAN    

RUSSIA    FINLAND    IRELAND       WALES     NETHERLANDS     IRAQ     JORDAN     KUWAIT     QATAR

POLAND   GERMANY   LUXEMBOURG    SWITZERLAND    SWEDEN      NORWAY    SCOTLAND   

ENGLAND     HUNGARY       BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA     CROATIA    KOSOVO    GREECE  

ROMANIA    CROATIA       MONACO      SAN MARINO     PORTUGAL      MALTA         BULGARIA

 UKRAINE         BELARUS        CZECH REPUBLIC   ESTONIA       SLOVAKIA      AUSTRIA     DENMARK      

ICELAND        MACEDONIA      LITCHENSTEIN     SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

2.       Match the following words to their definitions.

____1.sultan                                        a. ruler of Islamic country

____2. Voivode                                    b. ruler of a Balkan country

____3. Shah                                          c. ruler of Persia

____4. Ayatollah                                  d. high Islamic authority

____5. Tsar                                            e. also written czar, ruler of Russia

____6. Fergana Valley                         f. highly fertile farmland area in Central Asia

____7.Aral Sea                                     g. inland salty lake, with dwindling waters,in Central Asia

____8.Kuwait                                     h. tiny yet very oil rich country next to Saudi Arabia

____9.King Ibn Saud                        i. enlightened man who founded Saudi Arabia

_____10. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk    j. wise blond dictator who is the father of modern Turkey

_____11. Yasser Arafat                     k. first president of Palestine

_____11. Ruhollah Khomeini       k. bearded religious leader who ruled Iran after 1979

_____12. Yasser Arafat                 l. first president of Palestine

_____13. David Ben GUrion         m. first president of Israel

_____14. Mehmet the Conqueror   n. wise and redheaded sultan who conquered Constantinople

_____15. Leonidas                           o. brave bearded Spartan king who fought the Persians

_____16. General Pericles            p. beloved and fair Greek dictator who died of plague

_____17. Ablai Khan                     q. brave warrior,father of Kazhakstan

_____18. Caspian Sea                  r. huge inland salty lake bordering Iran

_____19. She wolf                       s. gentle wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus

_____20. Julius Caesar                t. first dictator of Rome, historian,conqueror of Gallias

_____21. Vercingetorix        u. gorgeous teenaged general who almost defeated the Roman legions     

_____22.Boadicea                v. brave and beautiful Iceni queen who almost defeated the Romans

_____23. War elephants      w. gallant animals used by Hannibal Barca during the Punic Wars    

____24. Cleopatra              x. beautiful and wise Egyptian queen

_____25.Socrates               y. Greek philosopher forced to commit suicide

_____26. Bucephalus         z. idolized steed belonging to Alexander the Great

3.       Answer the following questions:

1.       Which religions are practiced in the Middle East?

2.        What does the termination “stan” means?

3.       Mention three European rivers.

4.       Give the capitals of each countries here mentioned:

Saudi Arabia                                         Latvia                                     Turkey

Afghanistan                                          Uzbekistan                             Kosovo

Greece                                                   Ireland                                   Netherlands