1. Southwest Asia The Middle East
FSMS
7th Grade Social Studies; Units 2
Ottoman Empire & Establishment of Modern State of Israel)
Georgia Standard SS7H2(a.b)

2. The Middle East Historical Understandings
Standard-1
SS7H2 The student will analyze continuity and change in Southwest Asia (Middle East) leading to the 21st century.
(a) Explain how European partitioning in the Middle East after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to regional conflict.

3. FIRST FIVE
Agenda Message: Ethnic & Religious Groups Vocabulary Quiz II is TODAY! CDA 1 is October 4th.
Standard: Explain how European partitioning in the Middle East after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire led to regional conflict.
E.Q. Wednesday September 21, 2016: How did the break-up of the Ottoman Empire lead to regional conflict?
Warm Up: What caused the split between Sunni & Shia Muslims?
Today We Will:
SWA Ethnic & Religious Groups Vocabulary Quiz II
The break up of the Ottoman Empire

4. ANSWERS
E.Q. Answer for Tuesday 9/21/16: After the brake up of the Ottoman Empire new political boundaries were drawn without consideration of potential ethnic and religious group conflicts. Warm-Up Answer: After the death of Muhammad there was a disagreement about who should lead the Muslim community. Sunni’s believed it should be whomever would be the best leader. Shia’s wanted someone who was a direct descendent of Muhammad to lead.

5. The Middle East Historical Understandings
The Ottoman Empire in 1914 The Ottoman Empire controlled much of the area known as Turkey, Southwest Asia, North Africa and Southeast Europe from the 1300’s until the end of World War I (1924). At its most powerful in the 1500’s, the Ottoman Empire’s capital was the city of Istanbul.

6. The Middle East Historical Understandings
The Ottoman Empire in 1914 cont. By the start of World War I in 1914 the Ottoman Empire had been weakened by suffering seven straight loses in several costly wars. When World War I began, the Ottoman Empire decided to join forces with ultimately the losing side. As a result of losing World War I the Ottoman Empire was overthrown and dismantled.

7. The Middle East Historical Understandings
The Ottoman Empire in 1914 cont. The Peace Treaty Conference after World War I was held in San Remo, Italy and the treaty that was announced in 1920, was called the San Remo Agreement. The former Ottoman Empire was partitioned (divided) into several new countries by the existing European nations.

8. The Middle East Historical Understandings
The Ottoman Empire in 1914 cont. The countries that were created by this agreement are part of what is known today as the modern Middle East or Southwest Asia. These countries included Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Afghanistan among others.

9. The Middle East Historical Understandings
The Ottoman Empire in 1914 cont. When the European politicians created the San Remo Agreement, they decided where boundaries of these new countries would be located. In doing so they often paid little attention to the ethnic and religious groups who were already living in the areas. Some of these groups had been enemies for generations.

10. The Middle East Historical Understandings
The Ottoman Empire in 1914 cont. The new boundaries that were drawn did not take into consideration the concept of nationalism . (Nationalism: The idea that countries are most successful if the people who live there share some common cultural, historic, or religious beliefs).

11. The Middle East Historical Understandings
The Ottoman Empire in 1914 cont. As a result, many different groups who had no cultural ties, or in the worse case, groups who were life-long enemies were forced to live together in one country. This has led to ongoing conflicts or wars.

12. The Middle East Historical Understandings
Standard-2 SS7H2 The student will analyze continuity and change in Southwest Asia (Middle East) leading to the 21st century. (b) Explain the historical reasons for the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948; include the Jewish religious connections to the land, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and Zionism in Europe.

13. The Middle East Historical Understandings
Establishment of the Modern State of Israel cont. There are many religious sites in Palestine sacred to all three religions. Most of these important sites are in Jerusalem , (i.e. the Dome of the Rock, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the Wailing Wall).

14. FIRST FIVE
Agenda Message: CDA I is October 4th. Social Studies Monthly Progress Reports go home September 30th.
Standard: Explain historical reasons for the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948 including Jewish religious connections to the land, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism & Zionism in Europe.
E.Q. Thursday, September 22, 2016: What did the group called Zionist want to achieve?
Warm Up: Much of modern day SWA was previously part of what empire?
Today We Will:
Complete Chapter 21”What were they thinking” &
Chapter 22 “Israel-Brand New Old County” as classwork
Vocabulary Quiz II make-ups

15. ANSWERS
E.Q. Answer for Thursday 9/22/16: Zionist wanted all of the Jews of the world to be able to return to their original home as it existed in the Bible. Warm-Up Answer: Most of SWA was previously part of the Ottoman Empire.

16. The Middle East Historical Understandings
Establishment of the Modern State of Israel One of the areas created from the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I was Palestine. Palestine was important to Jews, Christians, and Muslims because this is where much of what is written in the Old and New Testaments, and the Quran took place.

17. The Middle East Historical Understandings
Establishment of the Modern State of Israel cont. The British were given the responsibility for ruling in Palestine until a decision could be made about how to establish a permanent government there. Most of the people living in Palestine before World War II were Palestinian Arabs. However, since the late 1800’s large numbers of Jewish settlers had been immigrating to the area from both Western and Eastern Europe.

18. FIRST FIVE
Agenda Message: CDA I is Tuesday Oct. 4th. Study Guides go home with all students on September 27th.
Standard: Explain historical reasons for the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948 including Jewish religious connections to the land, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism & Zionism in Europe.
E.Q. for Friday, September 23, 2016: What is anti-Semitism?
Warm Up: What “ethnic group” lived in Palestine before it became Israel?
Today We Will:
Complete Chapters 21 & 22

19. ANSWERS
E.Q. Answer for Friday 9/23/16: Hatred of Jews simply because they are Jewish. Warm-Up Answer: Palestinian “Arabs”

20. The Middle East Historical Understanding
Establishment of the Modern State of Israel cont. Since the Diaspora many of the early Jewish settlers wanted to create a homeland for the world’s Jews in Palestine. They believed the land in this area had been promised to them by God many thousand of years ago through the patriarch Abraham, as told in the stories of the Old Testament.

21. The Middle East Historical Understandings
Establishment of the Modern State of Israel cont.
These groups were known as Zionists people who felt the world’s Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion (or those parts of Palestine where the Jewish people had lived in Biblical times).
Conflicts began to break out between the Jewish settlers and the Palestinian Arabs, as each group tried to hold on to the land.

22. The Middle East Historical Understandings
Establishment of the Modern State of Israel cont. Each religious group felt a special affinity (love) towards the land based upon their belief that it had been given to them by God through the patriarch Abraham

23. The Middle East Historical Understanding
Establishment of the Modern State of Israel cont. During World War II, the Jewish people in Europe suffered terribly at the hand of the Nazi government of Germany. There was widespread anti-Semitism (which is hatred of the Jews simply because they practiced the Jewish faith) in Europe.