Middle East Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. Arabia, Middle Eastern country with the most oil reserves
  2. 4. Empire, A Muslim empire based in Türkiye that lasted from 1299 AD to 1922.
  3. 5. Ethnic group located in Eastern Anatolia that is often the subject of persecution, currently under UN protection.
  4. 6. The majority Muslim sect in Iran
  5. 8. Plan of 1947, Proposal to divide Palestine into two countries, one with a Jewish majority and one with an Arab majority.
  6. 10. Declaration, British document that promised lands in Palestine as a homeland for Jewish people for their help in WW1
  7. 12. A region governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations
  8. 14. A heavily contested region on the Eastern Mediterranean, Disputed with Israel
  9. 15. A religion that believes in one god and originates with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Their history is preserved in the Old Testament
  10. 19. A policy of establishing and developing a Jewish homeland in Palestine
  11. 21. A religion that builds off of the Old Testament and also incorporates the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament.
  12. 23. Original language of the Jewish people and what their sacred books are written in.
  13. 24. Ethnic group that dominates the Middle East and North Africa.
  14. 25. Gained independence from the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain after WW1.
Down
  1. 1. Agreement, Deal between the Entente (specifically Britain and France) to divide the Ottoman Empire after WW1
  2. 2. of Nations, International organisation formed after WW1, similar to the UN
  3. 3. North African ethnic group that live and have settled from Egypt to Morocco, primarily Muslim.
  4. 6. The majority Muslim sect across the Middle East
  5. 7. A religion that follows the teachings of the prophet Mohammad, they believe in one god, Allah, and follow the laws of the Quran. Followers are known as Muslims.
  6. 9. “The Uprising” against Israel by some Palestinians
  7. 11. Predominantly Jewish group who lives in the Holy Land
  8. 12. Arab prophet founder of the religion of Islam
  9. 13. A militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that uses terrorism as a weapon
  10. 16. Canal, A shipping canal in Northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
  11. 17. Settlements, In the 1980s the Israeli government encouraged Jewish movements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Golan Heights.
  12. 18. Organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree to a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum
  13. 20. & Iraq, Territories Britain occupied after WW1
  14. 22. & Türkiye, countries that have experienced western modernisation