Flashcards in Chapter 1-9 Review Deck (66)
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This country contributed writing and the wheel to society
Sumerians
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This nation contributed the Hanging Gardens
The Babylonians
2
This country used coins
The Lydians
3
This nation was responsible for early empire building
The Hittites
4
This nation developed the alphabet
The Phoenicians
5
This country had no great accomplishments
The Canaanites
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The false idea that man began as an animal
Evolution
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What event divides time into BC and A.D.
Christ's coming to ; his birth
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The man God called out of Ur and promised the land of Canaan to
Abraham
9
Sumerian wedge-shaped writing
Cuneiform
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A religion that did not begin in the Middle East
Hinduism
11
Language spoken by most people in the Middle East today
Arabic
12
The Middle East's most important natural resource today
Oil
13
The river valley where the Indian civilization began
The Indus River Valley
14
The belief that one person dies his soul is reborn in some other newborn man or animal
Reincarnation
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The country that was once called Persia
Iran
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The largest country in Africa
Sudan
17
World's largest swamp
The Sudd
18
The structure built to control flooding of the Nile
The Aswan High Dam
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Body of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
Straits of Gibraltar
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The waterway separating Africa and Asia
The Suez Canal
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The second largest freshwater lake in the world
Lake Victoria
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Largest city in Africa
Cairo
23
Two African countries that were never colonies of Europe
Liberia and Ethiopia
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The short descendants of the original inhabitants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pygmies
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Serengeti national Park is located in this country
Tanzania
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Leader of the Chinese Communists
Mao Tse-tung
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Only woman pharaoh of ancient Egypt
Hatshepsut
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The father of faith missions
Hudson Taylor
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