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15 Cards in this Set
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Near East vs Middle East
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A.T. Mahan First recorded to use Middle East term
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Orient
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Europeans: Near East
Americans: East Asia (Far East) |
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Assyriology
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Study of ancient Orient (Middle East) Mainly Mesopotamia
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4 cultures of Assyriology (known as Cuneiform cultures)
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Mesopotamia
Anatolia Syria-Palestine Persia(Modern Iraq) |
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Mesopotamia
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Land between two rivers
People of various origins including the Sumerians and those of the Semitic group of langiages (Babylonians and Assyrians) |
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Anatolia
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The Asiatic (main) part of Turkey
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Syria-Palestine
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Predominantly Semitic people; the middleman of the Middle East. Along Mediteranian Sea (New Testament lands)
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Persia (Modern Iraq)
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Various groups including the Elamites and the Indo-Europeans such as the Medes and Persians
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Middle eastern mounds often hide
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Tell
Huyuk Tepe |
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Seas
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Aegean
Marmara Black Caspain Bediterranean Red Dead Persian Gulf |
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Rivers
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Halys River
Euphrates Tigris Jordan Orontes Litani Nile |
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Lakes
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Tuz Golu (Salt Lake)
L. Van L. Urmia L. Tiberius |
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Mountains
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Pontus
Taurus Amanus Lebanon Anti-Lebanon Elburz Zagros |
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Plateaus
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Anatolian
Iranian |
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Deserts
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Syrian
Arabian Libyan |
