Chapter 16 SQ and Chapter Review

Question 1

choke point

Answer 1

Controlling movement of goods

Question 2

partition

Answer 2

Divide

Question 3

mandate

Answer 3

Territories gained by war

Question 4

Maronites

Answer 4

Descendants of a Syrian hermit named St. Maron

Question 5

Druze

Answer 5

Broke from the Shiites and followed an Egyptian ruler

Question 6

Holy Land

Answer 6

Where most of the events recorded in the Bible took place

Question 7

Shephelah

Answer 7

A area of low hills

Question 8

Negev

Answer 8

South

Question 9

wadi

Answer 9

Dry steam beds that fill with water after rainstorms

Question 10

tell

Answer 10

Huge mounds created by cities being built on top of old ones

Question 11

Knesset

Answer 11

The Hebrew parliament

Question 12

kibbutz

Answer 12

A Jewish community in which the people share everything in common

Question 13

Promised Land

Answer 13

The place God gave to Israel

Question 14

Zionist Movement

Answer 14

Jew going back to their homeland

Question 15

Judaism

Answer 15

The religion of Jews

Question 16

Orthodox Jew

Answer 16

Believe that the Torah is God’s word

Question 17

Reform Jew

Answer 17

Formed as a result of enlightenment thinking

Question 18

Conservative jew

Answer 18

Believe In keeping the old traditions

Question 19

Reconstructionist

Answer 19

See Judaism not as a religion but as a social identity

Question 20

Palestinian

Answer 20

The philistines that converted to Islam

Question 21

preemptive strike

Answer 21

Attacking before an enemy attacks you

Question 22

Six day war

Answer 22

A war between Israel and Egypt Syria and Jordan

Question 23

Yom Kippur War

Answer 23

Egypt and Syria attacked Israel but Israel won

Question 24

PLO

Answer 24

Palestine liberation organization

Question 25

Oslo Accord

Answer 25

Gave guidelines for a series of compromises

Question 26

Hamas

Answer 26

A terrorist group

Question 27

Hezbollah

Answer 27

A terrorist group

Question 28

Islamic Jihad

Answer 28

A terrorist group

Question 29

Byzantine Empire

Answer 29

Form after the collapse of the western Roman Empire

Question 30

Anatolia

Answer 30

Asia Minor

Question 31

Ottoman Empire

Answer 31

Turks

Question 32

Tel Aviv

Answer 32

Israels largest port

Question 33

Gaza Strip

Answer 33

The plain of Philistia

Question 34

Megiddo

Answer 34

A fortress

Question 35

West Bank

Answer 35

A mountain range west of the Jordan river

Question 36

Yasir Arafat

Answer 36

Not mentioned in the book

Question 37

Mahmoud Abbas

Answer 37

Not in the book

Question 38

Dead Sea

Answer 38

A lake below sea level

Question 39

Amman

Answer 39

The capital of the ammonites

Question 40

The Middle East lies at the cross roads of what 3 continents?

Answer 40

Europe Africa and a Asia

Question 41

What are the 2 factions that divide Cyprus?

Answer 41

Two different peoples

Question 42

What language is spoken in Syria?

Answer 42

Arabic

Question 43

What plain contains the Gaza Strip? Who lives there?

Answer 43

The plain of Philistia. The Palestines.

Question 44

Name the 2 cities that once guarded the entrance to the Plain of Esdraelon.

Answer 44

Megiddo and Damascus

Question 45

Name 2 lakes and a river in the Great Rift Valley

Answer 45

The Jordan river the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee

Question 46

What ethnic group makes up 20% of the population of turkey?

Answer 46

The Kurds.

Question 47

Why are the Dardenelles and the Bosporus so important?

Answer 47

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Question 48

What two rival groups live on Cyprus?

Answer 48

The Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots.

Question 49

What is the only non European nation in NATO?

Answer 49

Turkey

Question 50

Terms and places/people of significance

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Question 50

Chapter Review Questions

Answer 50

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Question 50

What strait separates Europe and Asia?

Answer 50

The Bosporus strait.

Question 51

What is the Fertile Crescent?

Answer 51

The levant and the river valleys of Mesopotamia.

Question 52

What is Syria's main resource?

Answer 52

Oil

Question 53

What are mandates?

Answer 53

Land taken after war.

Question 54

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Answer 54

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Question 55

What three territories consist mostly of Palestinians?

Answer 55

Egypt Syria and Jordan

Question 56

What geographic feature is common in Palestine?

Answer 56

Dead Sea