Chapter 10 Key Term Quiz

Middle East and North Africa
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The pilgrimage to Mecca required of all devout Muslims at east once in their lives.

A trade cartel of oil producing states, mostly Middle Eastern that uses its power to influence global oil markets.

Injecting liquids at high pressure into underground rock formations to extract oil and gas.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

The recreation of a transnational authority guided by Islamic principles and is a long held belief of many Sunni fundamentalists.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

A nomadic people living in the desert regions of the Middle East and North Africa.

The process by which water is transferred from land to the atmosphere by evaporation from soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants.

A series of protests in countries in Middle East and North Africa that began in 2010 and called for the removal of authoritarian regimes.

Originally refers to manuscript in which the original script was overlain by subsequent scripts but some still remain visible.

A sect of Islam distinct from Sunni whose adherents believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

A tall tower in a mosque initially used to call worshippers to prayer.

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