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Mandate

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Referred to land being governed by an outside power on behalf of the League of Nations

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Zionist

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A name some Jews called themselves

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Drip irrigation

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Preserves precious water resources by letting precise amounts of water drip on plants from pipes

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Potash

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Used in fertilizer and explosives

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Anarchy

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Lawlessness

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Embargo

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Severe restriction on trade

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Desalination

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Process of removing salt from seawater

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Infrastructure

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A countries basic support facilities - roads, schools, airports, seaports, communication systems

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Ayatollah

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Conservative religious leader in Iran who believed in strict Islamic law

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Which Turks did not impose Islamic law on non-Muslims?

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Ottoman Turks

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Who was called the sick man of Europe by mid-1800s?

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Ottoman Empire

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Allied powers of ww1:

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Great Britain, France, Russia

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Central powers of ww1

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German, Austria-Hungary

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Which side did Ottoman Empire join?

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Central powers

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What part of Ottoman Empire would be given independence after the war?

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Arab peninsula

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Two people involved in Great Britain/Arab secret dealings

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McMahon and Husayn

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What did British promise Arabs if they revolted against Ottoman Empire?

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British support for one Arab homeland

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Sykes picot agreement

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Limited independent Arab state to area that is now Saudi Arabia and Yemen. French control of Syria and Iraq now to great to Britain.

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Who was Sykes picot agreement between

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France and Great Britain

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Fin results of peace conference after ww1

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Ottoman Empire reduced to single independent country- Turkey
Arab state limited to what is now Saudi Arabia and Yemen
France and Great Britain divided the m rest

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By mid 1940s which country’s fate remained undecided?

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Palestine

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Which two groups claim Palestine as their homeland?

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The Arabs and the Jews

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Why were countries sympathetic to Jews after ww2?

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Six million Jews died in holocaust

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Why did the Jews claim Palestine?

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Ancient historical ties to region

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Why did the Arabs claim Palestine

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Arabs had lived there for centuries

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Arab League

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Created in response to worldwide support of Jewish homeland in Palestine

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What did the UN decide to do with Palestine after Britain pulled out?

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You and decided to partition Palestine into two states one Arab and one Jewish

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May 1948

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Creation of the new independent state of Israel

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Creation of the state of Israel led to

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1948 war. Arabs were furious because they had been given less than half of the land and it was mostly desert

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What was the result of the 1948 war

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Israel controlled more than three quarters of the land and Palestine was left with no country at all

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What has been Israel’s environmental goal?

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To turn desert into productive land

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Israel’s driest region

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Negev desert

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National water carrier

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A series of pipelines canals and tunnels that irrigates the Negev desert

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Where is the Dead Sea?

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Tween Israel and Jordan

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Where is potash extracted from?

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The Dead Sea

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How was Israel getting people to move to the desert?

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By offering hi pay an extra time off

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This is real world leader in producing?

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Medical laser technology, weaponry, aerospace equipment, and electronics

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Two groups of Jews in Palestine

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European Jews – wealthier, mostly from Europe, and immigrated before 1948
Sephardic Jews - mostly from Southwest Asia, north Africa, and Asia; lower standard of living in earned less money

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Knesset

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Israel’s democratically elected parliament

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Major political challenge facing Israel

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To build lasting peace with Palestinians and other Arab neighbors

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Where do you Palestinians first take refuge after the 1948 war?

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Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon

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When did Israel take the Gaza Strip and West Bank?

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During the second war in 1967

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PLO

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Palestinian liberation organization – Palestinians government in exile

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What have PLO extremist been known to do

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Extreme is hijacked planes kidnapping in killing Israeli civilians. Mostly viewed as terrorists

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Where has most PLO activity been conducted from

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Lebanon

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When did Israel invade Lebanon

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1982

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When did Israel and the PLO officially recognize each other?

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1993

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What for modern countries make up the Middle East?

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Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq

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Richland useful for farming in the ancient middle east

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Fertile Crescent.

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Farming and first civilizations first developed in

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The Fertile Crescent

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What land did Jordan gain after the 1948 war

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The West Bank

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Why was the West Bank important to Jordan

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Supplied Jordan with fertile land for growing crops. One third of GDP came from West Bank

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Who attacked Israel in 1967

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Jordan, Syria, and Egypt

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What was the result of the 1967 war for Jordan

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They lost the West Bank and second largest city, East Jerusalem. Their economy was devastated

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Half of Jordanian population is made up of

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Palestinian refugees

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Lebanon before the Civil War

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Mild climate, beaches, and open social and political platform

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Other name for Beirut

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Paris of the middle east

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Before the Civil War what religious group in Lebanon had the most power

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Maronite Christians

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Set up base in Lebanon

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PLO

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Why did US soldiers pulled out of Lebanon in 1984

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Americans were being targeted

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What groups were fighting in Lebanon during the Civil War?

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Christians and Muslims

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Militia

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Citizen army

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Mid-1980s Lebanon was in a state of

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Anarchy

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When did Lebanon reach peace and start rebuilding infrastructure

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1990s

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When did Israel withdraw its troops

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2000

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Who threatens peace with Israel,

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Hezbollah guerrillas

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Who is the leader of Syria now

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Bashar al-Assad

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The Syrian people rebel against the leader because because

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Little freedom

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Two main groups of stepped in to try to stop the fighting in Syria

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Russia and the Islamic state

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How many Syrian refugees are there

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4.5 million

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Where does most of Iraq lie

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On watered plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

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What replaced farming is the most important economic activity in Iraq in the 1920s

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Oil

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Rack find an eight year were with leaving both countries in debt,

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Iran

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Who did Iraq invaded 1990

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Kuwait

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Was the leader of Iraq for a long period of time

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Saddam Hussein

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The US and you and intervene doing what war that was started in 1990

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The Persian golf war

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Worlds largest stateless minority

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Kurds

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Where are the Kurds now

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And Curtis Stan which is located in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Armenia

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Capital of Oman

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Muscat

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Capital ofYemen

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Sanaa

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Capital of Saudi Arabia

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Riyadh

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Capital of united Arab emirates

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Abu Dhabi

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Capital of Kuwait

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Kuwait

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Capital of Iran

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Tehran

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Capital of Iraq

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Baghdad

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Capital of Lebanon

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Beirut

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Apple of Israel

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Jerusalem

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Capital of Turkey

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Ankara

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Capital of Bahrain

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Manama

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Capital of Qatar

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Doha

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Capital of Jordan

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Amman

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capital of Syria

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Damascus

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