Middle East People/Groups
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potterdude7 on March 12, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Muhammad | the man who Muslims believe was the last prophet |
| Sunni | a branch of the Islam religion, most popular |
| Shiah or Shiite | a branch of the Islam religion, least popular |
| Allah | the Muslim name of God |
| Muslims | the people who practice Islam |
| Jews | the people who practice Judaism |
| Christians | the people who practice Christianity |
| Zionist | A Jew who moved away because of the anti-Semitism |
| Arabs | traveling people who lived throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia/Middle East, first followers of Islam |
| Persians | Indo-European who lived in now what is called Iran, one of the largest empires of the world |
| Palestinians | An inhabitant of the ancient land of palestine |
| Allies | The enemy of the Central Powers in World War I. Included Great Britain, France, and Russia |
| Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies |
| Ottoman Empire | Empire created when the Ottoman Turks conquered the Byzantine Empire |
| United Nations | a peacekeeping body that all Nations signed, or the UN |
| "Sick Man of Europe" | A nickname for the Ottoman Empire |
| Saddam Hussein | - Was a dictator in Iraq who tried to take over Iran and Kuwait violently in order to gain the land and the resources. He also refused to let the UN into Iraq in order to check if the country was secretly holding weapons of mass destruction. |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | current president of iran |
| Ayatollah | a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well |
| Osama bin Laden | mastermind between 9/11 attacks. Leader of Al Qaida(in Afghanistan) |
| Hamas | terrorist group, current government in the West Bank |
| Hezbollah | A Shia Lebanese extremist organization started by Ayatollah Khomeini. |
| Taliban | a group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996 |
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