Northern Africa
Israel/Palestine Conflict
Arab Spring
Vocabulary
Mapping
100

The animal that was highly regarded and worshipped in ancient Egyptian culture.

What is a cat?

100

The side of the conflict that claims ownership due to biblical story. 

What is Israel?

100

The type of government wanted during the Arab Spring. 

What is Democracy?

100

Another word for dry.

What is Arid?

100

The longest river in the world; crucial for the Egyptian society. 

What is the Nile River?

200

The tablet used to decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

200

Under the UN division plan of Israel, Jerusalem would be given to.

What is shared.
200

One consequence of the Arab Spring.

What is terrorist groups?

OR

What is refugees?

OR

What is Civil War?

200

underground water-bearing layers of porous rock, sand, or gravel

What is a aquifer?

200

A peninsula found in Southwest Asia.

What is the Anatolian Peninsula?

OR

What is the Arabian Peninsula?

300

The term that describes the land, and countries, west of Egypt.

What is the Maghreb?

300

The side of the conflict that the U.S. supports.

What is Israel?

300

The country that started the Arab Spring.

What is Tunisia?

300

A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides. 

What is a peninsula?

300

The desert that separates northern Africa from the rest.

What is the Sahara Desert?

400

The dominant religion of northern Africa.

What is Islam?
400

A large fighting group for the Muslim side.

What is Hamas?
400

Fueled the spread of Arab Spring. 

What is Social Media?

400

a strategic, narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water

What is a Chokepoint?

400

The holiest city in Israel that is highly contested for ownership.

What is Jerusalem?

500

Three languages found on the Rosetta Stone.

What is Greek, Demotic-a, and Hieroglyphics?

500

The movement that pushed Jews to reclaim Israel as their own. 

What is Zionism?

500
The type of government not wanted during the Arab Spring.

What is Authoritarianism?

OR

What is Dictatorship? 

500

to adapt plants and animals from the wild for human use

What is Domestication?

500

One of the main rivers in Israel. Is a border between another country. 

What is the Jordan River?