Middle East

5.0(1)
studied byStudied by 9 people
learnLearn
examPractice Test
spaced repetitionSpaced Repetition
heart puzzleMatch
flashcardsFlashcards
Card Sorting

1/39

encourage image

There's no tags or description

Looks like no tags are added yet.

Study Analytics
Name
Mastery
Learn
Test
Matching
Spaced

No study sessions yet.

40 Terms

1
New cards
first civilization
Sumerians
2
New cards
ziggurates
giant temples that connect heaven and earth
3
New cards
persian empire was where?
modern day iran
4
New cards
Founder of Islam
Muhammed
5
New cards
Muslim holy book
quran
6
New cards
The hegira
Muslims were forced to flee Mecca
7
New cards
Holiest places of Islam
Mecca, Medina, Jeruslam
8
New cards
House of wisdom
religions joined together to create a ¨library¨ for everyone
9
New cards
famous poets
Rumi
10
New cards
Crusades
pope calls for christian knights to take back Jerusalem and holy sites in the 1090s
11
New cards
Zionists
people who favored a Jewish national homeland in Palestine
12
New cards
Six day war
Israel defeated the Arab states
13
New cards
West bank
Israel gained control as a result of the six day war
14
New cards
Balfour Decaration
Declared by Great Britain giving Jewish a national home in Palestine
15
New cards
Settlements
exist in previously Palestinian territory
16
New cards
Pahlavi Dynasty
nationalized Irans oil
17
New cards
Gulf War
Between Iraq and Kuwait over oil reserves
18
New cards
Iraq War
Us invades Iraq to remove Hussein
19
New cards
1800s
origns of Judaism
20
New cards
1948
Israeli state founded
21
New cards
600s
Islam established and spreads
22
New cards
Hummurabis Code
a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice.
23
New cards
troah
The first 5 books of the Jewish Bible
24
New cards
Yahweh
Jewish god
25
New cards
Moses
freed the Israelites from Eqypt
26
New cards
Abraham
The father of Judaism
27
New cards
disapora
the spread of people for their original homeland
28
New cards
two state solution
conflict envisions an independent State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel, west of the Jordan River.
29
New cards
5 pillars of Islam
Proession of faith

prayer 5 times a day

charity

romadon

haju
30
New cards
golden age of islam
everything and everyone is cexisting as one
31
New cards
Yom kipper war
arab-israel attck that was set out on yom kipper
32
New cards
un partition plan
Jersual was to become a international city woned by neather side
33
New cards
fertile crescent
a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia
34
New cards
cuneiform
the oldest form of writing in the world
35
New cards
hebrew
Irasli laugage
36
New cards
Exodus
the second book of the Bible
37
New cards
passover
the seven-day holiday for Jews and Isreals
38
New cards
Dome of the rock
Islamic shrine 
39
New cards
Mecca
a city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city of Islam.
40
New cards
Synagogue
Jewish church