Final Vocab People
9th grade
Hammurabi
created the code of law “eye for an eye”
Muhammad
Islamic savior
King David
General; united Israel
King Solomon
Wise, peace; temples for God; Taxes for his people
Suleiman I
“law giver”
Woodrow Wilson
made the 14-point peace plane
Kemal Ataturk
“Father of the Turks”
Theodore Herzl
founder and leader of Zionism
Anwar Sadat
Egyptian President (Wanted peace)
Yasser Arafat
Former PLO leader
Menacham Begin
Former Israeli Prime Minister (Peace talks)
Benjamin Netanyahn
Current Prime Minister of Israel
Mahmoud Abbas
Current president of the Palestinian authority
Reza Pahlavi
the ‘shah’ of Iran
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Spiritual leader of Iran’s Islamic movement
Bashar Al-Assad
President of Syria
Hosni Mubarak
First Egyptian president been there for 30 years(overthrown in the Arab Spring)
Mohammed Morsi
Ruler in the Middle East (he was to Muslim)