Chapter 17 Vocabulary - Israel and Its Neighbors

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Across
  1. 3. 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
  2. 5. The raising of plants and animals
  3. 7. Places in the West Bank and Gaza Strip where Israelis have settled
  4. 9. A ruler from a traditional ruling family who is the son, daughter, or younger relative of the last ruler
  5. 11. A dry area that forms behind a highland that captures rainfall and snow
  6. 12. A region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf.
  7. 14. A messenger of God
Down
  1. 1. Discrimination against Jews
  2. 2. A movement to create a Jewish state in Jews' historic homeland in Palestine.
  3. 4. A democracy in which parliament chooses the government
  4. 6. A government controlled by one person who has not won a free election
  5. 8. A Palestinian campaign of violent resistance against Israeli control
  6. 10. An underground layer where water collects
  7. 13. Beliefs about what is right and wrong