Vocab
This is an area in the desert where underground water allows plants to grow
What is an oasis?
How are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam linked?
What is they are all Abrahamic faiths?
During the Arab-Israeli war Syria lost the Golan Heights to this country
Who is Israel?
What is Islam?
The 1917 declaration of British support for a Jewish nation
What is the Balfour Declaration?
The practice of worshipping many gods is known as...?
What is polytheism?
The first civilization established in SW Asia
What is Sumer?
What is the name of the extremist group currently in control of Afghanistan?
What is the Taliban?
Iraq was ruled by this dictator until 2003
Who is Saddam Hussein?
The genocide in WWII that led to the creation of Israel
What is the Holocaust?
This a period of one thousand years
What is a millenium?
What are two ways Islam spread?
What are scholars, religious pilgrims, and traders?
What is the identity people in Afghanistan identify with more than their national (Afghani) identity?
What is their tribal identity?
Many countries, like the United States, have accused Iran of developing this type of weapon
What are nuclear weapons?
The war against Israel by neighboring Arab countries after WWII
What is the Arab-Israeli War?
This is politics that is related to water usage and access
What is hydropolitics?
What empire controlled most of SW Asia prior to World War I
What is the Ottoman Empire?
What uprising led to the civil war in Syria in 2011?
What is the Arab Spring?
This minority group in Iraq dominated the country in the late 1900s
Who are the Sunni Arabs?
The first major ethnic cleansing of Palestinians directly after the creation of Israel
What is the Nakba?
Water that fell as rain water thousands of years ago is known as...
What is fossil water?
In what war did the United States liberate Kuwait and invade Iraq?
What is the Persian Gulf War?
What is the name of the Syrian dictator who was finally deposed in 2024?
Who is Bashar al-Asad?
This event started when Jimmy Carter was president and the US embassy in Tehran was seized
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
The major uprisings and protests by Palestinian groups from 2000 - 2005
What is the Second Intifada?