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Chapter 1-9 Review Flashcards

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This nation contributed the Hanging Gardens

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The Babylonians

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This country contributed writing and the wheel to society

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Sumerians

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This country used coins

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The Lydians

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This nation was responsible for early empire building

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The Hittites

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This nation developed the alphabet

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The Phoenicians

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This country had no great accomplishments

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The Canaanites

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The false idea that man began as an animal

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Evolution

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What event divides time into BC and A.D.

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Christ’s coming to ; his birth

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The man God called out of Ur and promised the land of Canaan to

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Abraham

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Sumerian wedge-shaped writing

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Cuneiform

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A religion that did not begin in the Middle East

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Hinduism

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Language spoken by most people in the Middle East today

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Arabic

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The Middle East’s most important natural resource today

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Oil

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13
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The river valley where the Indian civilization began

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The Indus River Valley

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The belief that one person dies his soul is reborn in some other newborn man or animal

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Reincarnation

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The country that was once called Persia

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Iran

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The largest country in Africa

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Sudan

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17
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World’s largest swamp

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The Sudd

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18
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The structure built to control flooding of the Nile

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The Aswan High Dam

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Body of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean

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Straits of Gibraltar

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The waterway separating Africa and Asia

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The Suez Canal

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The second largest freshwater lake in the world

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Lake Victoria

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Largest city in Africa

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Cairo

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Two African countries that were never colonies of Europe

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Liberia and Ethiopia

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The short descendants of the original inhabitants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Pygmies

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Serengeti national Park is located in this country

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Tanzania

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Leader of the Chinese Communists

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Mao Tse-tung

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Only woman pharaoh of ancient Egypt

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Hatshepsut

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The father of faith missions

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Hudson Taylor

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Righteous Batswana chief

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Khama

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The first known African Christian

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The Ethiopian eunuch

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The queen of cannibals

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Mary Slessor

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First black president of South Africa

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Nelson Mandela

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First Egyptian leader to make peace with Israel

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Anwar Sadat

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Greatest missionary explorer to Africa

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David Livingstone

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The father of American missions

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Adoniram Judson

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This was the key to understanding hieroglyphics

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The Rosetta stone

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An Egyptian device for irrigating crops

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A shadoof

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The country once called the spice Islands

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Indonesia

39
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The country that is called the Land of the Rising Sun

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Japan

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This city was a famous center of learning in Africa

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Timbuktu

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Africa’s highest mountain

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Mount Kilimanjaro

42
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The fourth largest island in the world

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Madagascar

43
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Where is the Barbary Coast located?

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The Mediterranean Sea

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The following is not a need in Africa today

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Natural resources

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Name three needs of Africa today

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The Gospel, a stable government, and education

46
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The capital of Egypt

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Cairo

47
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The capital of Sudan

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Khartoum

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The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Kinshasa

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The capital of Ethiopia

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Addis Absba

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The capital of Kenya

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Nairobi

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Capitals of South Africa

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Cape Town and

52
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The capital of Tanzania

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Dar es Salaam

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The capital of China

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Beijing

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Capital of India

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New Delhi

55
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The capital of Iraq

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Baghdad

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The capital of Israel

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Jerusalem

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Capital of Japan

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Tokyo

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The capital of South Korea

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Seoul

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The capital of Syria

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Damascus

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The capital of Taiwan

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Taipei

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The capital of Thailand

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Bangkok

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The capital of Turkey

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Ankara

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Find these countries on a map

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China, India, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

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Find these locations on a map

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Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Horn of Africa, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Strait of Gibraltar, Drakensburg mountains

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Locate these mountains on a map

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The Alps, the Andes, the Appallachians, Mount Ararat, the Atlas Mountains, Mount Elbrus, Mount Everest, Mount Fuji, the great dividing Range, the Himalayas, Mount Kilimanjaro, the Matterhorn, Mount McKinley, Monte Blanc, the Rockies, the Urals

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