WorksheetsSW Asia Continuing Conflicts
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 32mins
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
How did Arabs living in Palestine feel about the new state of Israel?
They were unaffected by the new state
They supported it fully
They rejected it and thought it was unfair to them
They were unhappy, but agreed to work it out
Today, a major cause of conflict in SW Asia is fighting between which two groups over land?
Bedouins and Armenians
Persians and Iranians
Jews and Palestinians
Arabs and Egyptians
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
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
