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Middle East History started from the earliest human settlements and continues through several major pre- and post-Islamic Empires to today's nation-states of the Middle East. The Sumerians became the first people to develop complex systems that were to be called "civilization" as far back as the 5th millennium BC.

Middle East History
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1. Following the Iraqi surrender in Kuwait, what did the Iraqi forces do as they fled?

2. Which of these events MOST impacted the way Americans viewed the Middle East region?

3. a group of people who share a common culture and ancestry

4. Biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.

5. This is
Image: Afghanistan

6. President at the time of the Iran Hostage Crisis
Image: Carter

7. Divided Palestine into two Countries, one Jewish and one Arabic.

8. After supporting the independence of Israel, the United States was MOST concerned with what issue in that region?

9. President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991). Defeated by US led invasion in 2003.

10. Followers of Islam

11. A political group that claims to represent all Palestinians and to be working toward gaining an independent Palestinian nation.

12. A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior.

13. the idea to split Israel and Palestine into two independent nation - states, each separated by religion and ethnicity - Palestine mainly populated by Arabs(Muslims) and Israel by Jewish people

14. The largest ethnic group in the Middle East

15. President of Syria who refuses to step aside despite a civil war and international pressure.

16. The sacred Scripture of the Jewish people.

17. The scattering of a particular group of people over a vast geographic area. Originally, the rem referred to the migration of Jews out of their homeland, but now it has been generalized to refer to any ethnic dispersion.

18. This is
Image: Gaza Strip

19. This is
Image: Israel

20. Believe that the leader of the Islamic faith should be a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad.

21. a movement by conservative Muslim forces to remove Western aspects of society and replace them with strict forms of religious belief and behavior.

22. Arab nomads

23. the monotheistic religion of the Jews.

24. Terrorist group responsible for the September 11th attack in the United States

25. Ethnic group who live in the modern country of Iran.

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