Guiding Questions
1. What various names have historians and archaeologists given to the area in Southwest Asia and Northeast Africa? Why?
2. Identify at least five key geographic features of the Middle East and explain how these features would be important to life in the region.
3. In what ways does geography have an impact on the Middle East?
The Geography of the Middle East
Guiding Questions
1. Name two environmental changes that have had an effect on the Middle East. Describe those changes.
2. Do environmental changes cause social or cultural changes? Why? Why not? Give some examples of these changes in the Middle East.
Guiding Questions
1. What natural resources were available to the civilization? Why did Middle Eastern civilization choose to focus on agricultural areas rather than other resources?
2. What challenges have emerged for Middle Eastern governments in modern times, given the vast natural resources that the region possesses?
Second Section
Guiding Questions
1. What is the Middle East Religious Paradigm?
2. What is prophecy? How do Christians embrace the idea of prophecy?
4. What common belief do all Middle Eastern religions hold in terms of the afterlife?
Guiding Questions
1. How are all of the religious texts of different Middle Eastern Religions related?
2. What is reductionism?
3. Why do some people claim that human reason must be used when reading and understanding scriptures?
