Chapter 17

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Across
  1. 4. Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, and Turkey belong to this region
  2. 5. Nationalist movement for Jews to establish a Jewish state in their ancient homeland
  3. 7. Scattering of the people from their homeland
  4. 11. A valuable resource due to the region being so dry.
  5. 12. The climate in the region is mostly?
  6. 13. Israel was given this name by the Romans in AD 135
  7. 16. Believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world
  8. 17. Turkey's capital city
  9. 18. Divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab states and later the state of Israel was created
  10. 21. What landform covers much of Syria, Jordan, and southern Israel?
  11. 22. City in Israel
  12. 23. The larger part of Turkey located in Asia
  13. 25. A country created after World War 1
Down
  1. 1. Fought against the Crusaders and won Palestine
  2. 2. The world's saltiest body of water
  3. 3. Series of invasions by Christians from Europe
  4. 6. Formerly known as Constantinople and is Turkey's largest city.
  5. 8. Largest minority group in Turkey
  6. 9. Arabspeaking nomads who live mainly in the deserts of Southwest Asia
  7. 10. A country divided by religion - Christians and Muslims - and continues to have religious conflicts
  8. 14. means Father of Turks; he was a war hero who made Turkey a democratic nation
  9. 15. How many seas separate Europe from Asia
  10. 19. Turks invaded in 1453 capturing the city of Constantinople and made it the capital of their Islamic Empire
  11. 20. Religion is kept separate from government
  12. 24. Referred to as the Holy Land