midterm

Question 1

Isfahan

Answer 1

capital of ancient iran

Question 2

kurds

Answer 2

iran

Question 3

axeris

Answer 3

turkic speaking people in azerbaijan

Question 4

zorastrians

Answer 4

iran

Question 5

shah

Answer 5

king

Question 6

mohammed reza shah

Answer 6

iran overthrown by iranian revolution too secular

Question 7

mohamed mossadagh

Answer 7

Iranian PM overthrown by CIA

Question 8

operation ajax

Answer 8

UK and US overthrow mossadagh

Question 9

savak

Answer 9

iranian secret police

Question 10

ayatollah Khomeni

Answer 10

led islamic revolution died in 1989

Question 11

bahai

Answer 11

iran

Question 12

Iran-Iraq war

Answer 12

war over nothing, no real reason to start

Question 13

Ayatollah Khamenei

Answer 13

Current ruler of Iran

Question 14

Hasan rouhani

Answer 14

current president of Iran

Question 15

Mullah

Answer 15

muslim educated in theology

Question 16

Asia Minor/Anatolia

Answer 16

refers to Turkey

Question 17

Bosporus

Answer 17

Turkey - strait boundary of Asia and Europe

Question 18

Istanbul

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NW Turkey

Question 19

Constantinople

Answer 19

capital for Roman and Byzantine Latin and Ottoman empires

Question 20

Turkish

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Altaic language

Question 21

Kemal Ataturk

Answer 21

Turkey - first prime minister lots of reform

Question 22

young turks

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a coalition starting in the late 1870s to get a new constitution

Question 23

Kemalism

Answer 23

six arrows - reforms designed to separate the new state of Turkey from its Ottoman tradition and embrace a Westernized way of living

Question 24

Kabul

Answer 24

Afghanistan - bottom right near pakistan

Question 25

herat

Answer 25

top left afghanistan

Question 26

pushtum

Answer 26

indo-european people from ancient eas tpersia

Question 27

pashto

Answer 27

language of pashtum Afghanistan

Question 28

tajiks

Answer 28

Afghanistan - wide group of persian speaking people

Question 29

Uzbeks

Answer 29

Afg - largest turkic ethnic group, sunni muslim background

Question 30

taliban

Answer 30

afgh - religious fundamentalist group

Question 31

bamyan

Answer 31

northern central afghanistan - buddhas

Question 32

osama

Answer 32

afgh leader of al queada

Question 33

mujahiddin

Answer 33

rebels in afghanistan

Question 34

hamid karzai

Answer 34

politician that came into power after Taliban removed in 2001

Question 35

menes

Answer 35

united egypt

Question 36

memphis

Answer 36

capital of old egyptian kingdom near head of nile delta

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khufu

Answer 37

built largesty pryamid

Question 38

Jean Francis Champillion

Answer 38

translated roseta stone

Question 39

nefretiti

Answer 39

Wife of Akhenaten known for a religious revolution for which they only worshiped one god, Aten

Question 40

avesta

Answer 40

zoroastrian teachings

Question 41

avestan

Answer 41

language of avesta

Question 42

gathas

Answer 42

songs by zoraster

Question 43

ahura mazda, ahriman

Answer 43

good god, bad guy

Question 44

henotheism

Answer 44

one main god lots of others

Question 45

ur

Answer 45

where abraham was born

Question 46

patriarchs of judaism

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abraham isaac jacob

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canaan

Answer 47

lebanon israel/palestine

Question 48

saul/paul

Answer 48

convert to christianity prosthelytized

Question 49

hebrew scriptures

Answer 49

torah, prophets, and writings

Question 50

bethlehem

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west bank - where jesus was born

Question 51

nazareth

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israel where jesus grew up

Question 52

holy trinity

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god the father jesus the son and the hol spirirt

Question 53

constantine

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first roman emperor to convert to christianitty

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edict of milan

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constantine - rome stop harassing christians

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sassanids and ctesiphon

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iraq

Question 56

arabia felix

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area in southern arabia now known as yemen to be very fertile

Question 57

jahillyya

Answer 57

preislamic ignorant age

Question 58

yathrib

Answer 58

medina

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khadija

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muhammeds first wife

Question 60

minaret and muezzin

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where prayer is called and who calls it

Question 61

husayn

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son of Ali murdered by ummayads and a martyr for shi

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druze

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syria

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alawis

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syria

Question 64

Caliphs

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abu bakr, umar, uthman, ali

Question 65

jizya

Answer 65

tax paid by non muslims

Question 66

tours/poitiers

Answer 66

where the conquests stopped