Middle East

first civilization

Sumerians

ziggurates

giant temples that connect heaven and earth

persian empire was where?

modern day iran

Founder of Islam

Muhammed

Muslim holy book

quran

The hegira

Muslims were forced to flee Mecca

Holiest places of Islam

Mecca, Medina, Jeruslam

House of wisdom

religions joined together to create a ¨library¨ for everyone

famous poets

Rumi

Crusades

pope calls for christian knights to take back Jerusalem and holy sites in the 1090s

Zionists

people who favored a Jewish national homeland in Palestine

Six day war

Israel defeated the Arab states

West bank

Israel gained control as a result of the six day war

Balfour Decaration

Declared by Great Britain giving Jewish a national home in Palestine

Settlements

exist in previously Palestinian territory

Pahlavi Dynasty

nationalized Irans oil

Gulf War

Between Iraq and Kuwait over oil reserves

Iraq War

Us invades Iraq to remove Hussein

1800s

origns of Judaism

1948

Israeli state founded

600s

Islam established and spreads

Hummurabis Code

a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice.

troah

The first 5 books of the Jewish Bible

Yahweh

Jewish god

Moses

freed the Israelites from Eqypt

Abraham

The father of Judaism

disapora

the spread of people for their original homeland

two state solution

conflict envisions an independent State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel, west of the Jordan River.

5 pillars of Islam

Proession of faith

prayer 5 times a day

charity

romadon

haju

golden age of islam

everything and everyone is cexisting as one

Yom kipper war

arab-israel attck that was set out on yom kipper

un partition plan

Jersual was to become a international city woned by neather side

fertile crescent

a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia

cuneiform

the oldest form of writing in the world

hebrew

Irasli laugage

Exodus

the second book of the Bible

passover

the seven-day holiday for Jews and Isreals

Dome of the rock

Islamic shrine

Mecca

a city in Saudi Arabia that was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city of Islam.

Synagogue

Jewish church