Conflicts in Southwest Asia
A region controlled by a caliph, or an Islamic religious and political leader.
What is caliphate?
A government run by religious power.
What is theocracy?
removal of salt from seawater
What is desalination?
group of people who share a distinct culture, language and identity.
What is ethnic group?
the deliberate extermination of an ethnic, racial, or religious group.
What is genocide?
A Palestinian campaign of violent resistance against Israeli control
What is Intifada?
A government in which all power is held by a single person or a small group.
What is authoritarian government?
place in the desert where water can be found.
What is oasis?
belief that holy books should be taken literal, word for word.
What is funda mentalism?
The mass murder of six million Jews by Nazis during World War II.
What is a Holocaust?
A place in the West Bank or Gaza where Israelis have settled.
What is Israeli settlement?
Agreement in which each side gives up some of its demands in order to achieve others peacefully.
What is compromise?
money or goods that are used to make products.
What is capital?
Veil that covers the head and chest.
What is hijab?
A weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapon intended to kill or harm on a large scale.
What is WMD?
Civil war broke out between different ethnic and religious group.
What happened in Iraq most immediately after Saddam Hussein was removed from power?
It reserves of fires and seals in parliament for certain groups, while Israel does not.
How is Lebanon's democratic system different from Israel's?
government taking ownership of a company or industry.
What is nationalize?
belief that government and society should reflect Islamic law.
What is Islamism?
A movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in the Jews' ancient homeland of Palestine.
What is Zionism?
The Islamic State, or ISIS
Which terrorist group has been a major force in the conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen?
Country with a government that cannot control its territory or provide effective governments services to its citizens.
What is a failed state?
farming mainly to feed the farmer's family with little left over to send to market.
What is subsistence farming?
It reduced terrorist attacks against Israelis and blocked some Palestinians from accessing their farmland.
How has Israel's security barrier on the West Bank affected Israelis and Palestinians?
A statement issued by the British government in 1917 supporting the idea of a homeland for Jews in the Palestine Mandate
What is Balfour Declaration?