| A | B |
|---|
| prophet | a person whose teachings are believed to be revealed by G=d |
| Hajj | Mecc |
| MONOTHEISM | belief in one G-D |
| Muslim | followers of Islam |
| mosque | Islamic places of worship |
| muezzin | a crier, who climbs the minaret to call people to prayer |
| minaret | tall thin tower, attachedto the mosque, that the muezzin climbs to call people to prayer five times a day |
| oases | in a few places, deep underground springs force their way up to the surface creating these, or places where a supply of fresh water makes it possible to support life in a dry region |
| arable | land that can be farmed |
| Islam | the predominate religion in SW Asia |
| Southwest Asia | another name for the Middle East |
| Cyprus | island country south of turkey |
| mandate | land to be governed on behalf of the League of Nations until it was ready for independence |
| self determination | right to decide their own political future |
| Zionists | Jews who believed that the only way to solve the problem of oppression was by returning to the place they consideredtheir homeland - Palestine- and create their own country |
| Balfour declaration | issued in 1917 by the British, stated British support for hte creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine without violating the rights of Arabs living there. Arabs shocked and didn't support this because they thought they were going to have self determination. |
| drip irrigation | preserves water by letting precise amount of water dip onto plants from pipes. |
| knesset | Israel's democratically elected parliment |
| name three ways the ISraelis use technology in the desert | National Water carrier (Sea of Galliee water is pumped southward to irrigate parts of the Negev), mining the dead sea (processing plants to extract minerals potash,salt, bromine and exports them, drip irrigation |
| militia | citizen army |
| anarchy | lawlessness |
| embargo | severe restriction on trade with other countries |
| what were the causes of lebanon's civil war | when l became independant,they had a government where its many religious groups shared responsibility for governing the country. power was divided based on the size of their population.as the muslim population grew they began to demand a greater share oif the power. growing economic inequallity between groups in different parts of the country created problems. |
| describe the roll that oil plays in iraq's economy | read in the book |
| desalination | expensive process where salt is removed from water so it can be used for drinking and irrigation |
| dhows | arab sailing shhips |
| Rub' al-Khali | empty quarter the desert the size of texas in the arabian penninsula. world's largest sand desert |
| infrastructure | comprises a country's basic support facilities including its roads, schools, airports, seaports and communication systems |
| falaj system | ancient system of underground and surface canals that carry water from the mountains to villages miles away. |
| how are yemen and oman different from the other countries on the arabian penninsula | Y-life has changed little since ancient times.has not undergone the large scale modernization countries like saudi arabia and kuwait have. y- poorest country on the arabian penninsula.o- under pressure to diversify reliance on oil before it runs out |
| secular | run without religious influence |
| shah | Iran's ruler |
| ayatollahs | conservative religious leaders who felt that Iran should be governed in strict obedience to islamic lae. |
| Who is the father of the turks | Ataturk ( kemal) |
