Middle East Vocab Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. The majority muslim sect throughout the Middle East
- 3. A ship canal in northeastern egypt
- 4. A policy for establishing and developing a national home-land for Jews
- 5. A nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations
- 8. A religion originating with Abraham
- 17. A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed
- 19. countries that experienced Western moderization
- 20. Britain controlled after WWI
- 21. A muslim empire based in Turkey
- 22. A member of a North Afrian, Primarily Muslim people
- 23. Mostly Jewish people who live in the Holy Land and named their country Israel
- 24. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of patroleum
Down
- 1. an international organization formed after WWI
- 3. the majority Muslim sect in Iran
- 6. A secret deal to divide the Ottoman Empire after WWI between Britain and France
- 7. Country with most oil reserves
- 9. British document that promised land in Palestine as home for Jews
- 10. Original language of the Jewish people
- 11. The primary country in conflict with Israel
- 12. This proposition was that where ever there is a majority of Palestine that will be palestinian and where ever there is a majority of Jews that will be Israel
- 13. Ethnic group that lives in parts of Iraq and Turkey
- 14. A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus
- 15. "The Uprising" against Israel by some Palestinians
- 16. Arab prophet; founder of a religion
- 18. Ethnic group that dominates the Middle East
- 25. allowed to become independent after WWI