Across
- 4. Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, and Turkey belong to this region
- 5. Nationalist movement for Jews to establish a Jewish state in their ancient homeland
- 7. Scattering of the people from their homeland
- 11. A valuable resource due to the region being so dry.
- 12. The climate in the region is mostly?
- 13. Israel was given this name by the Romans in AD 135
- 16. Believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world
- 17. Turkey's capital city
- 18. Divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab states and later the state of Israel was created
- 21. What landform covers much of Syria, Jordan, and southern Israel?
- 22. City in Israel
- 23. The larger part of Turkey located in Asia
- 25. A country created after World War 1
Down
- 1. Fought against the Crusaders and won Palestine
- 2. The world's saltiest body of water
- 3. Series of invasions by Christians from Europe
- 6. Formerly known as Constantinople and is Turkey's largest city.
- 8. Largest minority group in Turkey
- 9. Arabspeaking nomads who live mainly in the deserts of Southwest Asia
- 10. A country divided by religion - Christians and Muslims - and continues to have religious conflicts
- 14. means Father of Turks; he was a war hero who made Turkey a democratic nation
- 15. How many seas separate Europe from Asia
- 19. Turks invaded in 1453 capturing the city of Constantinople and made it the capital of their Islamic Empire
- 20. Religion is kept separate from government
- 24. Referred to as the Holy Land