SOCIAL STUDIES GRADE SEVEN

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SOCIAL STUDIESGRADE SEVEN THE MIDDLE EAST
What are the main physical features of the Middle
East?
Judaism
The Middle East
Geography
Religion
Similarities and differences
Christianity
How do natural resources cause conflict and
cooperation?
Solutions to problems?
Islam
Current Issues in the Middle East/Poster Presenta
tion Project
Importance of water and oil
Response of US and/or UN
Religion as a cause of conflict
Major conflicts in Middle East today
Factors contributing to the events on 9/11/2001

• Essential Understandings/Concepts
• CT.CK.1.1.1. Evaluate the impact of interactions
  between the United States and other
  countries/areas worldwide.
• CT.CK.1.3.6. Analyze how specific individuals and
  their ideas and beliefs influenced world history.
• CT.CK.1.3.7. Evaluate the cultural contributions
  of a variety of past and present civilizations.
• CT.CK.1.3.8. Analyze how cultural differences
  sometimes contributed to conflict among
  civilizations or nations.
• CT.CK.1.4.9. Identify selected countries and
  determine the advantages and challenges created
  by their geography.
• CT.CK.1.4.10. Examine geographic factors that
  help explain historical events and contemporary
  issues.
• CT.CK.1.6.14. Assess how ideas/religions affected
  migration in different regions (e.g. Crusades,
  South African trek, founding of Israel).
• CT.CK.1.10.21. Analyze how resources or lack of
  resources influenced a nation/regions
  development (e.g. diversification vs. one-crop
  economies).
• CT.CK.1.12.24. Identify economic resources in the
  world and analyze their relationship to
  international trade.
• CT.CK.1.13.26. Compare similarities and
  differences of cultural groups in different world
  regions (e.g. beliefs, values, traditions,
  institutions).
• CT.CK.1.13.27. Analyze the relationship among
  culture, government and social systems in various
  countries.
• CT.CK.1.13.28. Recognize how values, beliefs and
  attitudes develop in different cultures.

Vocabulary Arab Islam Muslim Jewish Christianity
Temple Mosque Sunni Shiite Koran Torah Bible Arabi
c Sect Fundamentalist Shabbat Hebrew Pope Old
Testament Monotheism New Testament Mohammad Jesus
Christ Abraham Jerusalem Holy Trinity Pilgrimage M
ecca Jerusalem Theocracy Petroleum Desalination Po
table OPEC Al-Qaeda Hydrologic
cycle Westernized Taliban Terrorism 9/11 Iraq
War Homeland Diaspora West Bank Gaza
Strip Shah Ayatollah Secular Human
rights Judaism Irrigation Drought Refugee Arabian
Peninsula Renewal resource natural
resources Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Non-renewab
le resources