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| show | a hilly plateau overlooking the Fordan River and the Sea of Galilee; a sraategic lovation that has been the site of conflict in Southwest Asia for decades
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| show | a river of Soutwest Asia which supported several ancient civilizations and flows through parts of Turkey Syria and Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf
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| show | a landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan that is so salty that almost nothing can live in its waters; it is 1,349 feet below sea level making it the lowest place on the exposed crust of the earth
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| show | flat land made of chemical salts that remain afer winds evaporate the mositure in the soil
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| show | the practice of using small pipes that slowly drip water just above ground to conserve water to use for crops
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| show | water pumped from underground aquifers
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| show | petroleum that has not been processed
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| show | a place where curde oil is converted into useful products
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| show | a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Muhannad and the biggest cultural and religious influence in North Africa
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| show | place of worship
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| show | a form of government in which religious leaders control the government relying on religious law and consultation with religious scholars
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| show | for Jews the hliest site in Jerusalem the only rmaining portion of the Second Temple built in 538B.C. and destroyed in A.D. 70 by the Romans
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| show | a movement that began in the 19th century to create and support a Juwish homeland in Plaestine
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| show | a group formed in the 1960's to regain the Arab land in Israel for Plaestinian Arabs
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| show | an ethnic group in Southwestern Asia that has occupied Kurdistan located in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran for about a thousand years and who have been involved in clashes with these three countries over land claims for most of the 20th century
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| show | a region in Southwest Asia between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers which was the location of some of the earliest civlizations in the world part of the cultural hearth known as the Fertile Crescent
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| show | a largely unskelled laborer often an immigran from South and East Asia brought in to the oil-booming countries to fill job openings that the region's native peoples find culturally or economically unacceptable
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| show | a nation of people that does not have a territory to leaglly occupy lik the Plestinians Kurds and Basques
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| show | a displaced group of Arabs who lived or still live in the area formerly called Palestine and now called Israel
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| show | in Israel a strip of land on the wst side of the Jordan River originally controlled by Jordan which is part of the land set aside for Arab Palestinians
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| show | a territory alon the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula part of the land set aside for Palestinians which was occupied by Isral in 1967
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| show | a resource so inportant that nations will go to war to ensure its steady supply
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