Unit 3: Vocab

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