SW Asia Continuing Conflicts

How are Kurds and Palestinian Arabs similar?

What do Israelis and Palestinians fight over?

Which sect of Islam believes that the successor to the Prophet Muhammad must be from his bloodline?

What group are the governments of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran still in conflict with today?

What is the conflict between the Sunni and Shia Muslims?

Religious book of Muslims

Religious book of Jews

Which group disagreed with the United Nations partitioning of Israel?

Which sect of Islam believes that the successor to the Prophet Muhammad does not have to be from his bloodline?

What problems did the new boundaries in the Middle East cause as people found themselves living in newly created countries?

• All of the new countries had a low standard of living

• The new countries included people who did not have much in common

• Most of the new countries were formed in the desert, so it was hard to find work

• People in the new countries could no longer practice their religion