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🧆History of the Middle East – 1800 to Present
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301 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your History of the Middle East – 1800 to Present exam

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1929 Palestine Riots
1951 Refugee Convention
1953 coup against Mossadegh

A

Abbasid Translation Movement
Abd al-Qadir
Abdul Hamid II
Abdulaziz Ibn Saud
Abdullah Azzam
Abrahamic Religions
Al Jazeera
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Al-Azhar University
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ali Khamenei
Anglo-Iraqi War
Anglo-Persian Agreement
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Anglo-Soviet Invasion
Anti-Americanism
Anwar Sadat
Arab Higher Committee
Arab League
Arab Legion
Arab Nations
Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
Arab Socialism
Arab Spring and Women's Participation
Arab Unity
Arabian Peninsula
Arabic language reforms
Armistice Agreements
Arthur Balfour
Asylum seeking

B

Ba'ath Party
Ba'athism
Baha'i Faith
Baha'is
Bahrain Protests
Balkan Crises
Ballistic missile program
Basel Program
Bashar al-Assad
Basij Militia
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Golan Heights
Battle of Jerusalem
Battle of Megiddo
British control of Palestine
British Imperialism
British Mandate for Palestine
British Mandate in Palestine

C

Cairo
Caliphate
Cave of the Patriarchs
Cemal Pasha
Coalition Provisional Authority
Committee of Union and Progress
Communalism
Conditional aid packages
Constitutional Revolution of 1906
Coptic Christianity
Cultural Hybridity
Cultural hybridization

D

Dardanelles Strait
David Ben-Gurion
Der Judenstaat
Diaspora communities
Drone strikes
Druze
Dubai's Economic Model

E

Egyptian Revolution
Energy crisis
Energy security
Ennahda Party
Enver Pasha