Benchmark Vocabulary Review - Middle East

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  1. 3. An Iranian religion that dates back to ancient times
  2. 4. Name taken by Mustafa Kemal, the founder of modern Turkey, meaning “Father of the Turks”
  3. 6. Discrimination against Jews
  4. 8. Situation when large numbers of educated people migrate out of a country
  5. 9. Self-governing religious community in the Ottoman Empire
  6. 11. A ruler from a traditional ruling family who is the son, daughter, or younger relative of the last ruler
  7. 12. Place were most people live in cities
  8. 13. Concealing, baggy garments worn by many Arab women
  9. 14. A government controlled by one person who has not won a free election
  10. 15. Belief that policies and society should follow Islamic law
  11. 20. Holy book of Islam
  12. 21. Starting a business
  13. 27. Beliefs about what is right and wrong
  14. 28. Persian governor
  15. 29. The raising of plants and animals
  16. 31. Muslims’ political and religious leader
  17. 32. Belief that holy books should be taken literally, word for word
  18. 35. Arabic word meaning “struggle”
  19. 36. Block of rock and soil that makes up Earth’s crust
Down
  1. 1. The killing of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1918
  2. 2. Narrow body of water that cuts through land, connecting two larger bodies of water
  3. 4. Title for high-ranking Shia Muslim leaders in Iran
  4. 5. A democracy in which parliament chooses the government
  5. 7. The belief in a single God
  6. 10. Tunnel that provides water to Persian villages by bringing water from an aquifer
  7. 16. Persian word for king
  8. 17. Islamic house of worship
  9. 18. A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf.
  10. 19. Culture with a written language in which people have many different kinds of jobs
  11. 22. A dry area that forms behind a highland that captures rainfall and snow
  12. 23. Hot, dry winds that blow across Iran from west to east
  13. 24. A messenger of God
  14. 25. Religious leader
  15. 26. Removal of salt from seawater
  16. 30. Religious wars in which Christian soldiers from Europe aimed to stop the spread of Islam and to retake control of Palestine, also called the Holy Land
  17. 33. An underground layer where water collects
  18. 34. Iranian legislature