Chapter 10 Key Term Quiz

Middle East and North Africa
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An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

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

A grassy plain that contains few trees.

An organized killing of a particular ethnic group.

The war resulting from the attack in 1973 of Israel by Egypt, Iraq and Syria.

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.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

Injecting liquids at high pressure into underground rock formations to extract oil and gas.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

The recreation of a transnational authority guided by Islamic principles and is a long held belief of many Sunni fundamentalists.

A series of protests in countries in Middle East and North Africa that began in 2010 and called for the removal of authoritarian regimes.

A group of people living outside of their homeland.

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