Unit 3: Vocab
Across
- 3. Muslim place of worship
- 5. An organization of independent states formed in 1995 to promote international peace and security.
- 6. Ethnic group that lives in parts of Iraq & Turkey. "Kurdistan"
- 9. Sea Another name for the sea of Japan. (Ocean between Japan and China)
- 10. Ethnicity Countries with only 1 dominant ethnic group. (Japan & Korea)
- 11. Country that contains more than one dominant ethnicities.
- 15. Grande A river that forms a barrier between Texas & Mexico.
- 16. African nation that experienced genocide against its Tutsi population, carried out by Hutus.
Down
- 1. A city in the holy land, regarded as sacred by Christians, Muslims, & Jews.
- 2. Asia Previously known as the "Middle east" It includes Iraq, Iran, the eastern mediterranean, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, & the Arabian peninsula.)
- 4. This country was created after WW1, uniting ethnicities that spoke similar slavic languages.
- 7. Atlantic Treaty Organization) An alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country. (US, England, France, Canada, Westerns EU countries.)
- 8. An area in Southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan & India.
- 12. An international organization of European countries formed after WW2 to reduce trade barrier and increase cooperation among its members.
- 13. World A cultural region that is unified by the Arabic language found in North Africa and the middle east.
- 14. Shadow A dry area on the downward side of a mountain.