Middle East
These are the three religions of the Middle East
What are Islam, Judaism, and Christianity?
The majority of the modern borders of the Middle East were drawn after this war.
What is World War I?
Most of the present-day Jews in Israel moved to the area after this war.
What is World War II?
This group of people live in Southeast Turkey, Northeastern Syria, Northern Iraq and Northwestern Iran
Who were the Pharisees?
This controversial term refers to the region that extends roughly from the Black and Caspian Seas in the north to the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula in the south.
What is the Middle East?
This British man was a soldier who fought alongside the Arabs in WWI
Who was Lawrence of Arabia?
This is the movement based around a desire for a Jewish state
What is Zionism?
This is the name of the unrecognized territory where Kurds live
What is Kurdistan?
This is a word for non-jews
What is a goy or goyim?
An arc of land that extends from the two rivers of Mesopoetamia, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Levant, and ends with the Nile in Egypt.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This was a secret agreement that divided up the Middle East between Britain, France, and Russia.
What was the Sykes-Picot agreement?
This event in WW2 intensified the desire for a Jewish homeland
What was the Holocaust?
Kurds claim to be descended from this ancient people
Who are the Medes?
This is the Day of Atonement
What is Yom Kippur?
This country has a cedar tree on its flag because, in Biblical times, the area was filled with cedar trees.
What is Lebanon?
This secret letter was written by the British government expressing a support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
This was the year Israel became a country
This is the name of a market in Kurdistan
What is a Bazaar?
This is the name of God which cannot be spoken or written
What is "YHWH"
This is a term for part of Arabia that is severely underpopulated with nothing but desert.
What is "The Empty Quarter"?
These were a list of the people who the British and French betrayed after the First World War
Who were the Kurds, the Arabs, and the Jews (along with others)?
This area is recognized as an independent country, but does not have a vote in the United Nations
What is Palestine?
This phrase means that The Kurdish people exist but they are not recognized
We have Jam but we have no Jam
What extra book do the Jews use outside of the Bible
The Talmud