Middle East 1500-20th Century Part 1

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Across
  1. 2. Formed in the 1960’s and led by Yasir Arafat, this group led the Palestinian struggle against Israel. (use abbreviation on crossword)
  2. 4. Which Middle Eastern nation, which also includes Islam's holiest city, has the world's largest reserves of oil?
  3. 6. Displaced group of Arabs who lived or still live in the area formerly called Palestine
  4. 9. ____________ nations took advantage of stresses in the Muslim world through diplomacy, the threat of force, and economic investment.
  5. 10. One ____________ between the nations in the Middle East is the contrast between a mostly Muslim region and Jewish Israel.
  6. 11. Which term describes the Turkish peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
  7. 12. Jewish state established in 1948 by the United Nations.
  8. 13. Some Middle Eastern nations have adopted Western forms of __________, or nonreligious, government and law, keeping religion and government separate.
Down
  1. 1. The “Father of the Turks”, he passed many reforms to modernize, Westernize, and secularize Turkey.
  2. 2. The movement in the Middle East to unite all Arabs into one state.
  3. 3. This ruler of the Ottoman Empire ruled from 1520 to 1526, revised many law codes and continued the expansion of the Ottoman Empire throughout Asia and Europe; known by his people as “the Lawgiver”.
  4. 4. Ottoman law was based on
  5. 5. People around the world supported a Jewish homeland because of Jewish suffering and loss in the ___________; the systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
  6. 7. In the Middle East, this led to Egypt’s independence, modernizing in Turkey and Persia, and conflict in Palestine.
  7. 8. Government ruled by religious leaders