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What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
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Riyadh
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What is the capital of Israel?
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Jerusalem
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What is the capital of Iran?
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Tehran
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What is the capital of Iraq?
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Baghdad
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What is the capital of Yemen?
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Sanaa
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What is the capital of Syria?
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Damascus
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What is the capital of Lebanon?
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Beirut
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What is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
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Abu Dhabi
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What term refers to land that is governed on behalf of the League of Nations until it was ready for independence?
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Mandate
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Why were the Arabs upset at Britain after WWI?
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They did not receive their great Arab nation from Turkey through the Arabian Peninsula. Felt betrayed.
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What groups of people, are still today, fighting over the land that was once Palestine?
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Arabs and Jews
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A group of Jews referred to themselves as this after the hill in Jerusalem to which Jews had always prayed to return. (Returning to Palestine creating own nation.)
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Zionists
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What term means the right to decide their own political future?
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Self-determination
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How did the United Nations plan to solve the problem between the Arabs and Jews?
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Split Palestine into two states-one Arab, one JewThe city of Jerusalem was designated as an international city
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What country was created from the Jewish part of Palestine?
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Israel
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