CHAPTER 18 REVIEW (your test is tomorrow!)
VOCABULARY
order that restricts or prohibits trade with another country
embargo
murder of more than 6 million European Jews during WWII
Holocaust
area that is built up by rich, fertile soil left by river floods
alluvial plain
settlement in Israel where people share property but also own some private property
moshav
process used to make seawater drinkable
desalinization
title given to kings that ruled Iran
shahs
government run by Muslim religious leaders
Islamic republic
dry riverbed filled by rainwater from rare downpours
wadi
successor to Muhammad
caliph
settlement in Israel where the people share property and produce goods
kibbutz
to move from one place to another
migrate
nomadic desert people of Southwest Asia
bedouins
1. What is the name of the desert in southern Israel?
Negev
2. What is the capital of Iraq?
Baghdad
3. What are the names of the two (2) mountain ranges in Iran?
Zagros Mountains Elburz Mountains
4. What is the name of the largest desert on the Arabian Peninsula?
Rub’al Khali
5. What are the “Persian Gulf” states?
Kuwait Qatar United Arab Emirates (Bahrain is also one of them, but make sure you have these three listed)
6. What is Israel’s largest manufacturing city?
Tel Aviv-Yafo
7. What are the two (2) major rivers in Iraq?
Tigris River Euphrates River
8. What is the name of the ‘cut” through the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan?
Khyber Pass
9. What is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula?
Saudi Arabia
10. What is the Iraq economy based on?
OIL
11. What was the previous name of the city of Istanbul in Turkey?
Constantinople
12. What is the second largest group of people in Iraq called?
Kurds
13. What Arab country had a civil war from ?
Lebanon
14. What country in Southwest Asia has land on both Asia and Europe?
Turkey
15. What is the most industrialized country in Southwest Asia?
Israel
16. In what country is the Hindu Kush?
Afghanistan
17. What increased because of the Law of Return in Israel?
the Jewish population in Israel