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Vocab
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| religious group | millet |
| ruler | sultan |
| similar to colonies | mandates |
| arabs should unite as one goal/mindset because of their history to get rid of specifically Britain | pan-arabism |
| pride in your country, pride in yourself as a people; desire for a homeland | nationalism |
| violent attacks against jews | pogroms |
| dispersed (jews wandering without homeland) | diaspora |
| french-speaking arab christians | maronites |
| a great expanse of shifting sand; sand dune | erg |
| a valley;ravine; or channel that is dry except in the rainy season | wadi |
| a fertile spot in a desert where water is found | oasis |
| a person whose teachings are believed to be inspired by god | prophet |
| a pilgrimage or religious journey to the holy city of mecca | haj |
| birthplace of muhammad | mecca |
| belief in one god | monotheism |
| a follower of islam | muslim |
| an islamic house of worship | mosque |
| calls people to prayer | muezzin |
| a tall slender tower attached to a mosque | minaret |
| land capable of being cultivated | arable/fertile |
| when a country takes control of another and spreads its ideas and knowledge throughout the area | imperialism |
| land taken over | colony |
| the nation taking over | imperialist power/mother country |
| self-rule;independance | sovereignty |
| cultural/social | humanitarian |
| the mother country would supply/fulfill the needs of the colony | paternalism |
| the mother country believed that its culture was superior to that of the colony | ethnocentrism |
| more loyalty to your tribe than to your nation | tribalism |