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WorksheetsCh. 22: North Africa and the Middle East
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of the following was true of the O oman Empire?
Its citizens all had to obey Muslim laws.
Its people practiced many religions
It was founded in the 18th century.
It was governed by a caliph
The nationalist party called the Young Turks sought to
create an independent Arab state.
expand Ottoman territory
modernize the Ottoman Empire.
reduce western influence in the Ottoman Empire
The Majles was the national legislature established in 1906 in
the Ottoman Empire.
Persia.
Transjordan.
Turkey.
What happened to the territory in Asia Minor that the Turks viewed as their homeland a>er the Ottoman Empire was divided at the end of World War I?
It became a French mandate.
It became part of the Soviet Union
It became the Austro-Hungarian Empire
It became the republic of Turkey.
How did Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, change Iran?
He built close trading ties with Great Britain.
He developed Iran's infrastructure.
He promoted freedom of the press.
He turned Iran into an Islamic theocracy.
The mandate system was created by the
Balfour Declaration.
League of Nations.
Ottoman Empire
United Nations.
Before 1926, the French ruled their mandates in Syria and Lebanon by
controlling Arab leaders they placed in power.
instituting limited self-government.
governing directly with French officials.
giving Arab leaders the support of the French army.
The movement that called for Europe's Jews to move to their ancient homeland in Pales ne was known as
Anti-Semitism.
Israelism.
Judaism.
Zionism.
In the Balfour Declaration, Britain pledged to
protect the rights of non-Jews in Palestine.
drive all Arabs out of Palestine.
halt Jewish immigration from Europe to Palestine.
support the creation of an independent Arab state in Palestine.
The founder of Saudi Arabia, ibn Saud, built his state around the teachings of
Shiite Islam.
Sufism.
Sunni Islam.
Wahhabi Islam.
The Persian Gulf states of Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Kuwait were all
British protectorates.
French colonies
independent republics.
subject states of Saudi Arabia.
