SW Asia History plus

What is ‘anti-Semitism’?

• discrimination against Arabs

• discrimination against Kurds

• discrimination against Jews

• discrimination against Nazis

In what year was the new state of Israel created?

• 1930

• 1948

• 1991

• 1897

Which country did Saddam Hussein rule?

• Iraq

• Iran

• Israel

• Kuwait

What adjectives best describe the climate of much of Southwest Asia?

• Cold and Windy

• Warm and Dry

• Warm and Humid

• Hot and Arid

What large empire broke up after World War I?

• Germany

• Europe

• Ottoman Empire

• Persian Empire

The international movement for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland is known as what?

• Nationalism

• Zionism

• Buddhism

• Judaism

The scattering of Jewish people throughout the world was called?

• Diaspora

• Replacement

• Scattering

• Displacement

The process of removing salt from salt water in order to make it suitable for farming and drinking is known as?

• resalination

• deposits

• disposition

• desalination

The Strait of Hormuz connects which bodies of water?

• Red Sea & Persian Gulf

• Persian Gulf & Arabian Sea

• Red Sea & Mediterranean Sea

• Jordan River & Dead Sea

Which rivers flow through Turkey and Iraq?

• Tigris & Jordan

• Euphrates and Jordan

• Tigris & Euphrates

• Euphrates and Tigris