Distinct Middle Eastern Personalities
Muslims believe that he was the last prophet.
Who is Muhammad?
A triangular shaped land area at the mouth of a river. This geographic feature is home to the cities of Cairo, Egypt, Karachi, Pakistan and Dhaka, Bangladesh.
What is a delta?
The political party in India dominated by Hindus in the drive for independence.
What is the Indian National Congress?
This man said, “English factories make the cloth that makes our poverty.”
Who is Gandhi?
It was main goal of the British East India Company.
What is profit?
This exiled leader took over Iran when the Shah was removed from power in 1979
Who is the Ayatollah Khomeini?
The seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
What is a monsoon?
It was the political party in India most responsible for the creation of the nation of Pakistan.
What was the Muslim League?
After Gandhi's death, this man's goal was to modernize, secularize, and democratize India
Who was Nehru?
It is an agricultural crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. In India, under British rule, the local farmers were forced to grow jute, cotton, tobacco and indigo.
What are cash crops?
He was the leader of Iran before the Islamic Revolution. Under his rule there was secular (non-religious) education and western influences.
Who is Shah Pahlavi?
An extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side.
What is a plateau?
The original name given to Bangladesh in 1947. It is a low lying floodplain at the mouth of the Bay of Bengal.
What is East Pakistan?
It is conduct, writing or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state. Gandhi and others were arrested and charged for this in their push towards independence.
What is sedition?
It is the second largest religion in India?
What is Islam?
He is best known as the controversial sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, serving from 2005 to 2013. An anti-Western president who won the disputed election of 2009.
Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
A group of islands closely scattered in a body of water. An example is the tropical island nation of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, which composed of more than 1,000 coral islands, known for its beaches, blue lagoons and extensive reefs.
What is an archipelago?
These two countries were created out of British India.
What are India and Pakistan?
They were employed by the British, but in 1857, both Muslims and Hindus were insulted when pig and cow fat was used in preparing their weapons.
Who were the Sepoys?
They are considered the lowest part of India's society.
Who are the untouchables(Dalits)?
He was the leader of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
A narrow strip of land having water on both sides and connecting two larger land masses. The Sinai Peninsula connecting Africa to Southwest Asia is an example.
What is an isthmus?
It was the name of the disputed region between India and Pakistan?
What is Kashmir?
It took place on 13 April 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer
What is Amritsar Massacre?
They split over who should lead the Muslim community following Muhammad’s death.
Who are the Shiites and Sunni?