| A | B |
| dictatorship | A form of government in which a leader rules by force and limits freedoms |
| casbah | an older section of Algerian cities |
| fault | crack in the Earth’s crust where two tectonic plates meet |
| embargo | A ban on trade with a particular county |
| moshav | a settlement in Israel in which people share in farming, production, and selling, but each person is allowed to own some private property as well |
| secular | non-religious |
| bedouin | A nomadic desert people of Southwest Asia who follow a traditional way of life |
| civil war | Fighting between opposing groups for control of a country’s government |
| enclave | A smaller territory entirely surrounded by larger territory |
| kibbutz | A settlement in Israel where settlers share all their property and make goods as well as carry out farming |
| trade sanction | a step taken to cut off trade with a country to show opposition to its government’s action |
| fellahin | a peasant farmer of Egypt who rent small plots of land |
| clan | A large group of people who have a common ancestor in the far past |
| genocide | The mass murder of people from a particular ethnic group |
| cash crop | A farm product grown for export |