Chapter 22 Vocab

2. an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion.
5. a covered building, but can be any place where Islamic prayers are performed, such as an outdoor courtyard.
6. a movement of religious students (talib) from the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan who were educated in Pakistani traditional Islamic schools.
9. a place of prayer and pilgrimage in the Old City of Jerusalem that is sacred to the Jewish people.
10. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960
12. A city in a hollow of mountain valley
14. an organization founded in 1964 with the aim of creating a state for Palestinians.
15. Jewish nationalist movement that has had as its goal the creation and support of a Jewish national state in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jews

1. an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
3. Located in the mountains of western Saudi Arabia, the city of Mecca began as an early trade center for the region and a hub for camel.
4. the largest sect of Islam, making up roughly 85% of all Muslims.
7. a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system.
8. government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided or a state governed by a theocracy
11. Oldest existing Islamic monument. It is located on Temple Mount, previously the site of the Temple of Jerusalem.
13. geopolitics is the combination of the geographical capacities of the Shiite areas with the ideals and teachings of Shi'ite political culture
16. exploration and navigation, physical geography, and cartography and mathematical geography.