An official order or commission to do something

A Muslim empire based in Turkey that lasted from the 1300's to 1922.

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

A small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.

Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.

A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Military and political leader with absolute authority over a Muslim country

To divide into parts is called partitioning.

A subgroup of a major religious group is called a sect.

Despite their large population, this group did not get their own territory when Europeans partitioned the Middle East

The hostility between these two groups, and among different Islamic factions, form the basis of the region's modern history.

In 1948, the United Nations partitioned what country into the Jewish nation of Israel and an Arab Muslim state.

The systematic, state-sponsored killing of 11 million innocent people (6 million of whom were Jewish) by the Nazis was called the ________________.

At midnight on May 14, 1948, the United Nations members voted to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish states which created the state of ______________.