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