Chapter 10 Key Term Quiz

Middle East and North Africa
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A group of people living outside of their homeland.

A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.

A veil typically worn by Muslim women.

A high density area found in the city center in the Muslim world.

An austere form of Sunni fundamentalism in the Islam religion that is heavily promoted by Saudi Arabia.

A more formalized written standard form of Arabic that is commonly used across the Arab-speaking world, in contrast to the multiple forms of spoken Arabic.

Originally refers to manuscript in which the original script was overlain by subsequent scripts but some still remain visible.

A nomadic people living in the desert regions of the Middle East and North Africa.

A sect of Islam distinct from Sunni whose adherents believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.

A belief and adherence to the idea that Jewish people should be allowed to establish and maintain their own state in Israel.

The process by which water is transferred from land to the atmosphere by evaporation from soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants.

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