People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Israel

  

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• The Best of Israel Rick Steves

Explore:

• A Crossroads fo the World
• Judaism

Explain:

• What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
• How did Judaism begin?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. fertile
2. Gaza Strip
3. Nile River
4. Dead Sea
5. Golan Heights

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Israel

 

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• The Best of Israel Rick Steves

Explore:

• A Crossroads fo the World
• Judaism

Explain:

• What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
• How did Judaism begin?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. fertile
2. Gaza Strip
3. Nile River
4. Dead Sea
5. Golan Heights

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia Day 2

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• The Best of Israel Rick Steves

Explore:

• A Crossroads fo the World
• Judaism

Explain:

• What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
• How did Judaism begin?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. fertile
2. Gaza Strip
3. Nile River
4. Dead Sea
5. Golan Heights

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia

 

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• Central Turkey Rick Steves (25:03)
• The Best of Israel Rick Steves
• Palestine Rick Steves
• Iran: Tehran and Side-Trips Rick Steves
• Egypt's Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor Rick Steves
• Egypt's Cairo Rick Steves

Explore:

• A Crossroads fo the World
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam
• Regional Conflict
• Tensions within Islam
• Uniting Trends
• Many Ethnicities and Languages
• Kurdistand: A Nation without a Country

Explain:

• What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
• How did Judaism begin?
• How did Christianity become the world's largest religion?
• How did Islam become the dominant religion in the region?
• What are the roots of the conflict in Israel?
• What conflicts exist within Islamic communities?
• What are the cultural elements that unite North Africa and Southwest Asia?
• How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?
• How have ethnic differences led to conflict in the Kurdish regions of Southwest Asia?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. fertile
2. Gaza Strip
3. Nile River
4. Dead Sea
5. Golan Heights
6. Sahara
7. Giza
8. Black Sea
9. Fertile Crescent
10. Sumer
11. Mecca
12. Tigris and Euphrates River
13. Aswan Dam
14. West Bank
15. Mesopotamia
16. Sinai Peninsula
17. Silk Road
18. Mansa Musa
19. Nubia
20. Babylon