Middle East Knowledge Check

Most countries in the Middle East are influenced and follow the religion of

• Judaism

• Islam

• Christianity

• Buddhism

Britain's support of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine in 1917 is known as the ​ (a)  

• Balfour Declaration
• Oslo Accords
• Camp David Accords

Label the territories of Israel and Palestine

b

a

c

Gaza Strip - Palestine

Israel

West Bank - Palestine

Organize these options into traditional and westernized developments in the Middle East

Groups:

(a) Traditional

,

(b) Western

• malls

• hijab

• face and hand coverings

• Skyscrapers

• open air markets

• Jeans

the first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country was called

• Balfour Declaration

• The Camp David Accords

• The Oslo Accords

• Geneva Conference

Which religions all began in the Middle East and consider Israel a holy place?

• Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism
• Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism
• Judaism, Islam, and Sikhism

A place of worship for Muslims is called a ______.

• church

• mosque

• synagogue

• temple

What event occurred when Egypt and a number of other countries threatened Israel?

• Yom Kippur War

• The first Intifada

• The Seven Years war

• The Six-Day War

How did Arabs feel about the creation of Israel? 

• they supported it because of the horrors of the Holocaust
• they thought it was unfair to the Palestinians to punish them for what the Nazis did
• they believed splitting up the land was a fair compromise
• they were unhappy about it, but tried to work it out anyway

Modern Middle Eastern conflicts arose from the creation of what nation?

• Israel
• Kuwait
• Iraq
• Saudi Arabia