Religion
Abrhamic Religions include...
Islam, Judiasm, Christianity
Encouraging owners to sell their properties because minorities are moving into a neighborhood is known as...
Blockbusting
An area of land surrounded by water on three of it's sides is known as a...
Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
The Arab word for the territory that is present day Israel. Palestine was a British Mandate and divided between Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Great Britain left in 1947, which paved the way for the United Nations to create the new nation of Israel in 1948.
Palestine
An Autonomous Religion is...
A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.
a practice in which banks refuse to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations is known as...
Redlining
The movement of ideas and goods from one place to another is known as..
Diffusion
India
New Delhi
Also known as Operation Desert Storm, after Iraq invaded Kuwait due to claims on land and oil, a US led military coalition, approved by the United Nations, forced Iraq to leave Kuwait.
Persian Gulf War
The founder of Islam was...
Muhammad
An attempt to completely exterminate a group of people by killing
Genocide
When ideas or culture move from place to place as people move place to place, this kind of diffusion happens...
Relocation diffusion
Egypt
Cairo
This conflict continues today because both groups have an historic claim to the same land, Palestine / Israel
Arab-Israeli conflict
The prominant religion in the middle east and northern Africa is..
Islam
Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region
Ethnic cleansing
A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea is known as..
Landlocked State
Turkey
Ankara
1948 war where the Arab neighboring countries attacked Israel the day after the new nation was created because they did not want the new Jewish nation to exist.
Arab-Israeli War
The prominant religion in India is..
Hinduism
A practice, primarily during the 18th century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.
Triangular slave trade
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
Gerrymandering
Iran
Tehran
Modern state created in 1948 as a homeland for the Jews after World War II and the Holocaust.
Israel