Physical Features
The Middle East is also known as the “____________” because of its location in the center of three continents –Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Crossroads of the World
This ethnic group makes up the majority of the people who live throughout the Middle East.
Arabs
After the fall of the ______ Empire in WWI, Britain and France carved up and reorganized the Middle East.
Ottoman
The Balfour Declaration expressed British support for the establishment of a national home for who?
Jews
The belief in only ONE god.
Monotheism
__________ are the most common physical feature here and make up 66% of the area.
Deserts
This religion is practiced the most by each of the three major ethnic groups in the Middle East.
Islam
The creation of this country displaced many Palestinians who were living in the area.
Israel
What are the names of the two Palestinian territories in Israel?
The Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which trace their origins to the covenant God made with Abraham in the Hebrew Bible.
Abrahamic religions
The Euphrates River runs through Syria before joining with the _______ River in southern Iraq.
Tigris
Most Persians live in Iran, which was known as ________ before 1935.
Persia
This movement wanted to reunite the world’s Jews and give them a homeland in Palestine.
The Zionist Movement
Jerusalem is a holy site for these three religions.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
In Islam, the concept of the global community of Muslims bound together by faith, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or social status.
Ummah
The __________ connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and is an important shortcut because it allows trade between all three continents.
Suez Canal
Kurdish Is an ___________ language related to Farsi (Persian) and other Iranian languages.
Indo-European
A system put in place by the League of Nations where a European country(mostly Britain and France) would be in charge of one of the former ottoman territories until it was ready to govern itself.
the Mandate System
How did conflicts, such as the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, impact the territorial boundaries of Israel?
they expanded
In the Old Testament, Abraham was told by God to sacrifice his son ______. The lineage of the ______ are traced back to him.
Isaac, Jews
The area that covers Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank was once known as ________.
Palestine
There is a strong _________ movement among the Kurds for their own nation. This has caused conflict with the countries in which Kurdish people live, and Iraq and Turkey have both suppressed the Kurds and their traditions.
nationalist
This secret agreement between Britain and France divided the Middle East up between the two into what would eventually become it's modern borders.
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced when Israel was created. What do the Palestinians refer to this as?
The Nakba
Since the majority of Muslims live in the middle east, they refer to the region as the ______________.
Abode of Islam