Creating the Modern Middle East I can describe how the diverse people of the Middle East unified. I can explain why European nations took control after WWI. I can distinguish how the creation of Israel caused tension.

Page 469 What do these ideas tell us about the history of the Middle East? ▫3,000 years ago ▫Center of trading routes ▫Power ▫Conquered repeatedly ▫Diverse ethnic and religious groups

Silk Road – Trade Routes

Diverse People Adoption of the Islamic religion and Arabic Language ▫Christianity and Judaism exception 150 years Islam controlled Seljuk Turks – 400 years Ottoman Turks ▫“the sick man of Europe”

World War I Attention of European Countries ▫Great Britain, France, Russia – Trade and Power Allies and Central Powers ▫Fighting with Germany and Austria-Hungary Secret Negotiations ▫Britain and Arabs – promising an independent Arab nation for support against Ottoman Turks ▫Sykes-Picot Agreement Broken Promise ▫Britain and France ▫Mandates and the United Nations

Arabs and Jews By mid-1940’s all middle eastern countries were independent except Palestine Two Peoples, One Homeland ▫Arabs and Jews  Arabs were there for centuries, tracing their roots to the first settlers  Jews were the ancestors of the Hebrews  Defeat and exile by the Babylonians, 586 B.C. ▫Zionists (still the minority even up to 1948) ▫Self-Determination and Britain ▫Conflict – Restrictions on Immigration

Balfour Declaration “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

Creation of Israel ▫Holocaust and WWII (World Support) ▫Jewish Agency ▫Arab League ▫1948 two nations  United Nations was handed the problem after the British couldn’t figure it out.  Jewish state would include more than half the total land, with less than 1/3 rd the population of Palestine  Largely upland and desert areas were given to the Arabs  Conflict Erupts – 1948 war ▫Palestinians – people without a home

On a separate sheet of paper analyze the video according to… Note the relationship between the two cultures. Arab Jewish How has this relationship changed from ? What conflicts does this video explain? How did the results of these conflicts hurt the situation?