SW Asia Vocab

Question 1

Monotheism

Answer 1

The belief in one God

Question 2

Mosque

Answer 2

Islamic place of religious worship

Question 3

Muezzin

Answer 3

An Islamic crier who calls the faithful to five prayers a day from minaret

Question 4

Minaret

Answer 4

A tall, slender tower attached to a mosque

Question 5

Nomad

Answer 5

A person who travels from place to place

Question 6

Desalination

Answer 6

The process of removing salts from seawater so that it can be used
Drinking and irrigation

Question 7

Drip irrigation

Answer 7

A process : precisely controlled amounts of water drip on plants from pipes

Question 8

Fertile Crescent

Answer 8

The region in the middle east where farming and the first civilizations developed

Question 9

Militia

Answer 9

A citizen army

Question 10

Anarchy

Answer 10

Political disorder and violence; lawlessness

Question 11

Embargo

Answer 11

Severe restriction of trade with other countries

Question 12

Infrastructure

Answer 12

The basic support facilities of a community or country; roads, bridges, schools, power plants

Question 13

Falaj system

Answer 13

Arabian Peninsula: Ancient system of underground and surface Canals

Question 14

Secular

Answer 14

Worldly, not relating to religion

Question 15

Shah

Answer 15

The title of the former ruler of Iran

Question 16

Ayatollah

Answer 16

A religious leader among Shiite Muslims

Question 17

Zionist

Answer 17

Member of the movement founded to promote the establishment of an independent Jewish state

Question 18

Self-determination

Answer 18

The right of a people to decide their own political future

Question 19

Mandate

Answer 19

A commission from the league of Nations authorizing a nation to govern a territory