WorksheetsPartitioning SW Asia & previous standards Review
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 13mins
What large empire broke up after WWI?
Roman Empire
Aztec Empire
Ottoman Empire
Persian Empire
What lies at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East?
Religion & Land
Religion & Trade Routes
Land & Freedom of Speech
Religion & Freedom of Speech
What is a synonym for the word "partition"?
Unite
Divide
Respect
Fight
Someone whose primary language is Arabic.
Arab
Muslim
Sunni
Shia
Dictator of Iraq (aka the Butcher of Baghdad)
Osama Bin Laden
Taliban
Ayatollah
Saddam Hussein
The terrorist group that planned 9/11
Al Qaeda
Hamas
ISIS
Taliban
Who is Muhammed?
Founder of Theology
Founder of the new world
Founder of Europe
Founder of Islam
What 2 important rivers run through Iraq?
Jordan & Indus
Mississippi & Minnesota
Nile & Suez
Tigris & Euphrates
What would be the BEST title for the image?
Kurdish Dream for Homeland
Country of the Kurds
Partial Control of Kurdish territories
Mesopotamia
Europeans created artificial borders in the Middle East causing conflict between ethnic and religious groups. How were Europeans able to partition the land?
Europeans persecuted Jews through the Holocaust
Europeans won land from the Ottoman Empire concluding WWI
Jews were forced to leave by the Romans in the Diaspora
Immigrants moved to Palestine after WWII
Why did the European Partitioning under the Sykes-Picot agreement cause conflict?
Other European nations were upset they did not acquire more territory.
The French disagreed with the British on which land to mandate.
Countries were allowed to maintain wealth of natural resources.
Europeans ignored historical and religious/ethnic borders.
Sunni & Shia conflict in Iraq and Syria
Kurdish nationalism
Israeli Jew & Palestinian Arab Conflict
Which THEME unites the items above?
US Involvement in the Middle East
Land & Religion conflicts in the Middle East
Conflicts prior to WWI
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
