ME Unit Review

Question 1

Majority of people in middle east speak Arabic and practice Islam

Answer 1

Arabs

Question 2

Believed anywhere the Muslim could become caliph are also majority of Muslims

Answer 2

Sunnis

Question 3

Branch it is lawn minority mostly in Iran and Iraq believe that only descendants of Muhamed can be caliph

Answer 3

Shiites/Shias

Question 4

Islamic holy law rules for daily life

Answer 4

Sharia

Question 5

Person having more than one spouse allowed by the Koran

Answer 5

Polygamy

Question 6

Adopted from sharia law made outside the church not religious

Answer 6

Secular law

Question 7

Land fought over by the Arabs and Jews and Palestinians Jewish ended up getting most of it and the fighting continues even today

Answer 7

Palestine

Question 8

Jerusalem mecca Medina arguing over who gets it

Answer 8

Holy land

Question 9

Found in Iraq Iran and Afghanistan historic enemy of Sunni Arabs

Answer 9

Persians

Question 10

Shia holiday that mourn the death of imam Hussein Ali, they cut themselves out of sympathy for the Martyr

Answer 10

Ashura

Question 11

Large empire ruled by turks from 13th century till 1919 and was the center of Islam controlled Mecca and Medina causing the Arabs to revolt in 1916 was ended after World War One

Answer 11

Ottoman empire

Question 12

British Lord declared his support for a Jewish state in Palestine contradicting earlier British agreements

Answer 12

Balfour declaration

Question 13

Founded by the Jews and created in 1948 upsetting arabs and lead to Arab Israeli wars caused by Zionism

Answer 13

Israel

Question 14

Israel is created and then Israelis win the first Arab-Israeli war

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

US invades and liberates Kuwait and February 91 during the Gulf War US-led defense against Iraqi hostility

Answer 15

Desert Storm

Question 16

Islamic terror organization in Middle East also Southwest Asia

Answer 16

Al Qaeda

Question 17

Profit of Islam who is believed to have smashed idols and spread Islam

Answer 17

Muhamed

Question 18

Successor to the profit dispute over who should be Caliph led to the division of Islam into Sunni and Shia

Answer 18

caliph

Question 19

System of government based around god priests rule

Answer 19

Theocracy

Question 20

Iraq invaded Kuwait for money and then turned army toward Saudi Arabia US sent troops to defend Saudi Arabia and later invaded and liberated Kuwait Cease fire ended war and Saddam Hussein was then watched by UN

Answer 20

Golf war I

Question 21

Eric language made of 28 letters written right to left approximately 150 million people throughout the Middle East and North Africa speak it

Answer 21

Arabic

Question 22

US invade Iraq and Saddam is killed

Answer 22

Golf war II

Question 23

Organization of petroleum exporting countries and the power of Western oil companies over oil prices decide on prices and how much to produce

Answer 23

OPEC

Question 24

Movement for the establishment of Jewish homeland grows out of European nationalism and euros being against Jews

Answer 24

Zionism

Question 25

Palestine liberation organization to bring about an independent state of Palestine

Answer 25

PLO

Question 26

Israel thought the neighboring states of Egypt and gained lots of territory

Answer 26

Six-Day War

Question 27

What led to the creation of the state of Israel?

Answer 27

Balfour declaration nationalism sign is on World War I collapse of the Ottoman Empire British mandate

Question 28

Why is the stability of the Middle East important for US national security and world economy?

Answer 28

Oil refugees would have a homeland there's terrorism guns twin pillar strategy

Question 29

Explain the clash between modern and secular nations in the Middle East and traditional religious nations in the Middle East

Answer 29

Modern nations want to make Western changes like democracy 12 traditional want to keep things as they are i.e. sharia law

Question 30

Explain the background events and result of the 2010 Arab Spring

Answer 30

A man set himself on fire in protest it was a social media revolution economy was poor with corrupt dictators protests happened across the nation's revolutions occurred Syrian Civil War happened most countries are worse than they were before