Conflicts
What is the name of the Christian holy book?
The bible
What is Anti-Semitism?
Hatred or discrimination toward Jewish people
Pogroms, propaganda, and political cartoons are examples of...
Anti-Semitism
The land that, according to the Hebrew Bible, God promised to Abraham’s descendants?
What is the Promised Land
What was a goal of Zionism?
To create a Jewish homeland
Who created Israel in 1948?
United Nations
Which two countries were responsible for partitioning SW Asia?
Britain and France
When was the country of Israel created?
1948
A city in the Levant that was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Israel and the location of the Jewish Temple?
Jerusalem
Who is a key figure in all 3 religions, often called the "father" of these faiths?
Abraham
What did the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire cause?
It caused conflicts between religious and ethnic groups
Which conflict led to the loss of the Ottoman Empire's land?
WWI
A deadly anti-Jewish riot to murder Jews?
What is a Pogrom
The scattering of Jewish people away from their homeland?
What is the Diaspora
What ethnic group besides the Jews wanted a country of their own?
The Kurds
What is the origin of many conflicts in the Middle East?
The Europeans partitioned SW Asia after WWI
Which two ethnic groups have had major conflics with each other after the Sykes-Picot agreement?
Arabs and Jews
a movement that wanted to create a safe homeland for Jewish people in their ancient land, called Israel?
Zionism
The remaining part of the ancient Jewish Temple complex after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE?
Western Wall
Who founded Islam?
Muhammad
How did the Sykes-Picot Agreement cause conflict?
European powers did not pay attention to ethnic or religious groups when creating boundaries forcing groups together or dividing groups
Most people in SW Asia belong to which ethnic group?
Arabs
What does partition mean?
To break apart
A serious agreement or promise. In Judaism, God made a covenant with Abraham almost 4,000 years ago, promising land to his descendants?
Covenant
Two sects of Islam?
Sunni and Shia