Arabia and Iraq
The name of the large body of water near Arabia and Iraq that is rich in oil.
What is the Persian Gulf?
To divide up into pieces, specifically land.
What is to partition?
The war between Israel and Palestine which took place from 2023-2025.
What is the Gaza War?
The title of the king or ruler of the Safavids and Iran.
What is Shah?
The three countries primarily involved in the Iran War.
What is the US, Israel, and Iran?
The two most valuable resources in Arabia and Iraq.
What is water and oil?
The systematic killing of an entire group of people.
What is genocide?
The mass killing of Jewish people by the Nazis in World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
The "father of the Turks."
What is Ataturk?
The primary reason for the conflict in Iran.
What is oil?
The "land between the rivers" in which civilization began.
What is the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia?
The idea that Jewish people should create a homeland within Palestine.
What is Zionism?
The year that the state of Israel and officially established.
What is 1948?
A high ranking Shia Muslim leader in Iran.
What is Ayatollah?
The year in which the Iranian Revolution took place.
What is 1978-79?
The first written language.
What is cuneiform?
The empire that last from the 1300s until World War I and spanned Southeast Europe, Southwest Asia, and Northern Africa.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The 2 Palestinian uprisings that were protesting their treatment by Israel in 1987 and 2000.
What are the First and Second Intifadas?
The killing of Armenians by Turkish leaders from 1915-1918.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
The narrow strip of water that Iran is blockading.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
The first written set of laws, from Babylon.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Underground layers of rock where water collects.
What are aquifers?
The 1917 declaration by the British that allowed Jewish people to create their own state in Palestine.
What is The Balfour Declaration?
The Shah of Iran after the Iranian Revolution.
Who is Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
The year that the US government overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran.
What is 1953?