This document outlines homework assignments for a World History class unit on the Middle East and terrorism. It includes reading assignments on topics like Judaism, Islam, the creation of Israel, and several Arab-Israeli wars. Students are tasked with identifying key people, places, events and concepts. Maps of the Middle East, world, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and North America must be labeled with various political and geographical features from different time periods.
This document outlines homework assignments for a World History class unit on the Middle East and terrorism. It includes reading assignments on topics like Judaism, Islam, the creation of Israel, and several Arab-Israeli wars. Students are tasked with identifying key people, places, events and concepts. Maps of the Middle East, world, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and North America must be labeled with various political and geographical features from different time periods.
This document outlines homework assignments for a World History class unit on the Middle East and terrorism. It includes reading assignments on topics like Judaism, Islam, the creation of Israel, and several Arab-Israeli wars. Students are tasked with identifying key people, places, events and concepts. Maps of the Middle East, world, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and North America must be labeled with various political and geographical features from different time periods.
This document outlines homework assignments for a World History class unit on the Middle East and terrorism. It includes reading assignments on topics like Judaism, Islam, the creation of Israel, and several Arab-Israeli wars. Students are tasked with identifying key people, places, events and concepts. Maps of the Middle East, world, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and North America must be labeled with various political and geographical features from different time periods.
2. ***DOUBLE ID*** on Islam, include: Mohammed, Qur’an, hejira, jihad, Five Pillars of Islam, Shiites and Sunnis (these Arabic words could be spelled differently in different sources)
HW 25 C: Research and Read p. 689
Identifications: 3. Creation of Israel (UN resolution, Kibbutz, Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews) 4. 1948 Arab invasion of Israel and the Palestinian Arabs
HW 25 D: Research and Read pp. 689-691
Identifications: 5. 1956 Arab-Israeli War – Gamal Abdel Nassar and Pan-Arabism 6. 1967 Arab-Israeli War – Six Day War 7. 1973 Arab-Israeli War – Yom Kippur War, OPEC and the Arab Oil Embargo
HW 25 E: Research and Read pp. 690-691
Identifications: 8. Camp David Accords (Egypt, Israel and the U.S.), 1978 9. PLO, Yasir Arafat and TWO Intifadas
HW 25 F: Research and Read pp. 691-692
Identifications: 10. Shah Mohammad Reza Khomeini and opposition 11. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shah, the Iranian Revolution and American Hostages 12. Iraq and Saddam Hussein, Iran v. Iraq War 1980 - 1988
HW 25 G: Read New Book pp. 696-697
Identifications: 13. Osama ben Laden, al-Queda and Taliban 14. 1998, 1999 and 2000 al-Queda attacks on Americans 15. Attacks of 9/11 in 2001
HW 25 H: Read New Book pp. 698-699
Identifications: 27. Iraq’s Invasion of Kuwait and the US/UN Intervention, 1990-1991 28. War on Iraq, 2002 diplomatic maneuvers (UN Security Council and President Bush) 29. U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 2003 HW 25 M: Map of the Middle East 1. LABEL at least 50 nations, Capitals or bodies of water in the Middle East. 2. Use RED for water, BLACK for nations and BLUE for Capitals. 3. Do not label continents, oceans or other items from the other maps. 4. Use a HI-LITER to SHADE in the Israeli occupied lands from 1967 War 5. LABEL the Four Israeli occupied lands: Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula
HW 25 N: Map of the World
1. *** LABEL NEW ZEALAND in BLACK, and its capital in BLUE *** 2. *** LABEL the capital of Australia in BLUE *** 3. Use RED INK to LABEL the Oceans 4. Use a HI-LITER to LABEL the Continents 5. Use a HI-LITER to carefully CIRCLE Asia 6. Use a HI-LITER to carefully CIRCLE North America 7. Use a HI-LITER to carefully CIRCLE Latin America 8. Use a DIFFERENT COLOR to SHADE in the three major jungle regions 9. Use a DIFFERENT COLOR to LABEL the three largest deserts 10. Use a HI-LITER to DRAW and LABEL the Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Prime Meridian and the International Date Line 11. Use BLUE INK to MARK the following letters where these civilizations or cities began: M for Mesopotamia E for Egypt I where India began C where China began R for Rome G for Greece B for Byzantium (changed to Constantinople, but now Istanbul) P for Persia W for the Golden Age Kingdoms of Africa A for Aztecs Y for Mayans N for Incas X where Carthage was S for Salinas for Jerusalem
for Mecca
For Each Map below:
1. Use RED INK to LABEL water (Do not repeat items from the World Map – No Oceans) 2. Use Black INK to LABEL Nations 3. Use Blue INK to LABEL Capitals of Nations 4. Use a HI-LITER to SHADE IN ALL the Communist Nations as of the 1980’s
HW 25 P: Map of Europe, 2000 - 60 items
HW 25 Q: Map of Asia, 1980’s - 60 items HW 25 R: Map of Africa - 60 items HW 25 S: Map of South America - 30 items HW 25 T: Map of North America - 30 items