1. CHAPTER 18 REVIEW (your test is tomorrow!)

2. VOCABULARY

3. order that restricts or prohibits trade with another country

4. embargo

5. murder of more than 6 million European Jews during WWII

6. Holocaust

7. area that is built up by rich, fertile soil left by river floods

8. alluvial plain

9. settlement in Israel where people share property but also own some private property

10. moshav

11. process used to make seawater drinkable

12. desalinization

13. title given to kings that ruled Iran

14. shahs

15. government run by Muslim religious leaders

16. Islamic republic

17. dry riverbed filled by rainwater from rare downpours

18. wadi

19. successor to Muhammad

20. caliph

21. settlement in Israel where the people share property and produce goods

22. kibbutz

23. to move from one place to another

24. migrate

25. nomadic desert people of Southwest Asia

26. bedouins

27. 1. What is the name of the desert in southern Israel?

28. Negev

29. 2. What is the capital of Iraq?

30. Baghdad

31. 3. What are the names of the two (2) mountain ranges in Iran?

32. Zagros Mountains Elburz Mountains

33. 4. What is the name of the largest desert on the Arabian Peninsula?

34. Rub’al Khali

35. 5. What are the “Persian Gulf” states?

36. Kuwait Qatar United Arab Emirates (Bahrain is also one of them, but make sure you have these three listed)

37. 6. What is Israel’s largest manufacturing city?

38. Tel Aviv-Yafo

39. 7. What are the two (2) major rivers in Iraq?

40. Tigris River Euphrates River

41. 8. What is the name of the ‘cut” through the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan?

42. Khyber Pass

43. 9. What is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula?

44. Saudi Arabia

45. 10. What is the Iraq economy based on?

46. OIL

47. 11. What was the previous name of the city of Istanbul in Turkey?

48. Constantinople

49. 12. What is the second largest group of people in Iraq called?

50. Kurds

51. 13. What Arab country had a civil war from 1975- 1991?

52. Lebanon

53. 14. What country in Southwest Asia has land on both Asia and Europe?

54. Turkey

55. 15. What is the most industrialized country in Southwest Asia?

56. Israel

57. 16. In what country is the Hindu Kush?

58. Afghanistan

59. 17. What increased because of the Law of Return in Israel?

60. the Jewish population in Israel