Benchmark Vocabulary Review - Middle East

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  1. 5. The raising of plants and animals
  2. 7. Belief that holy books should be taken literally, word for word
  3. 9. Discrimination against Jews
  4. 10. Block of rock and soil that makes up Earth’s crust
  5. 11. Beliefs about what is right and wrong
  6. 12. Persian governor
  7. 14. A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf.
  8. 15. A messenger of God
  9. 18. Religious wars in which Christian soldiers from Europe aimed to stop the spread of Islam and to retake control of Palestine, also called the Holy Land
  10. 19. A ruler from a traditional ruling family who is the son, daughter, or younger relative of the last ruler
  11. 22. Place were most people live in cities
  12. 23. An underground layer where water collects
  13. 24. Hot, dry winds that blow across Iran from west to east
  14. 25. Iranian legislature
  15. 26. Belief that policies and society should follow Islamic law
  16. 28. The belief in a single God
  17. 31. Tunnel that provides water to Persian villages by bringing water from an aquifer
  18. 33. Culture with a written language in which people have many different kinds of jobs
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  1. 1. Title for high-ranking Shia Muslim leaders in Iran
  2. 2. Name taken by Mustafa Kemal, the founder of modern Turkey, meaning “Father of the Turks”
  3. 3. Holy book of Islam
  4. 4. Persian word for king
  5. 5. The killing of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1918
  6. 6. Muslims’ political and religious leader
  7. 8. Arabic word meaning “struggle”
  8. 10. A democracy in which parliament chooses the government
  9. 11. Starting a business
  10. 13. An Iranian religion that dates back to ancient times
  11. 16. Narrow body of water that cuts through land, connecting two larger bodies of water
  12. 17. Situation when large numbers of educated people migrate out of a country
  13. 18. Religious leader
  14. 20. Removal of salt from seawater
  15. 21. Self-governing religious community in the Ottoman Empire
  16. 27. Islamic house of worship
  17. 29. A dry area that forms behind a highland that captures rainfall and snow
  18. 30. A government controlled by one person who has not won a free election
  19. 32. Concealing, baggy garments worn by many Arab women