Middle East/Central Asia Vocab

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  1. 3. A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.
  2. 5. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum.
  3. 6. A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed. Followers are called Muslims.
  4. 7. Original language of the Jewish people and that of their sacred books.
  5. 10. A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Yahweh.
  6. 11. the majority Muslim sect in Iran
  7. 15. Secret deal to divide the Ottoman Empire after WWI between Britain and France
  8. 16. A nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations.
  9. 19. Ethnic group that lives in parts of Iraq and Turkey. They of ten suffer persecution in both countries, and are currently under the protection of the United Nations in Iraq.
  10. 20. A territory in the Middle East on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
  11. 21. 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.
  12. 22. country with most oil reserves
  13. 24. and Turkey countries that experienced western modernization Egypt allowed to become independent after WWI
  14. 25. A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old and New Testament.Jesus is savior.
  15. 26. A Muslim empire based in Turkey that lasted from the 1300's to 1922.
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  1. 1. In the 1980s, the Israeli government encouraged Jewish movement in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights.
  2. 2. British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI
  3. 4. of Nations an international organization formed after World War I
  4. 8. A member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt
  5. 9. Britain controlled after WWI
  6. 12. "The Uprising" against Israel by some Palestinians
  7. 13. a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon.
  8. 14. the majority Muslim sect throughout the Middle East
  9. 17. Canal A ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea
  10. 18. founder of religion of Islam.
  11. 23. ethnic group that dominates the Middle East and Northern Africa.
  12. 24. Mostly Jewish people who live in the Holy Land and named their country Israel.