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| belief that there is only one god. |
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| a country placed under the control of another power by international agreement. |
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| a Southwest Asian region often called the holy land. |
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| "people who share a common and distinctive culture, heritage, and language." |
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| respected religious leader. |
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| a government order forbidding trade with other countries. |
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| a 1991 war between the United States and Iraq. |
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| "the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which decides the price and amount of oil produced each year in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Venezuela, and other countries." |
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| a raw material used to manufacture other products. |
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| a product manufactured from raw materials. |
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| a product made from petroleum or natural gas. |
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| a pilgrimage to Mecca that most Muslims try to make at least once in a lifetime. |
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| the ninth month of the Islamic year. |
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| "people with no fixed home who move about in search of food, water, and grazing land." |
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| floor-length cloaks women in some Islamic countries wear that cover everything but the woman’s eyes. |
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| an exchange of one benefit for another. |
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| a fundamentalist Muslim group that believes that Egypt should be governed solely by Islamic law in order to be true to the principles of Islam. |
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| peasant farmers in Egypt. |
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| "a movement that encouraged Jews to return to Palestine, the Jewish homeland, which many Jews call Zion." |
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| "a Jewish farming village in Palestine whose members own everything in common, sharing labor, income, and expenses." |
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| "a law enacted in 1950 in Israel, granting Jews anywhere in the world permission to move to Israel and become citizens." |
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| a Jew who strictly follows Jewish law. |
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| "in Judaism, the Day of Atonement." |
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| not specifically relating to religion. |
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| "a member of a group of mountain people who live in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. They have been fighting for their own state since 1984." |
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| "the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defense alliance formed in 1949, with the countries of Western Europe, Canada, and the United States agreeing to defend one another if attacked." |
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| European Union; an economic and political grouping of countries in Western Europe |
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