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30 Cards in this Set
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Exceptional zones
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sparsely populated areas that use oases and waddis as their main water sources
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"REG" Desert
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rocky deserts (fairly common)
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"ERG" Desert
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sandy deserts (rare)
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Hejaz
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the mountain range on the west coast of the Arabian peninsula
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Waddis
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underground river beds or streams that have dried up over time
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Denuded
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stripped of trees and large-scale vegetation
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Tigris-Euphrates Basin
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the area between these two rivers with soil enriched by the floods depositing silt over the years
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Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent
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the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; the "land between two rivers"
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Levant
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the region including Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon
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Mediterranean Climate
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moderate year-round climate with mild temperatures and lots of rain
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Fellahin
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peasants (in ancient civs)
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Steppe
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an elevated desert
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Bedouin
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people of tribal origin who travel in nomadic cycles
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Nile River Basin
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an area several miles wide on the banks of the Nile where annual flooding has enriched the soil
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Maghreb
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the region of present-day North Africa
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Alluvial soils
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very fertile areas enriched by silt deposited on river banks
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"Double-cropping"
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growing two like/unlike crops on the same land within the same year
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Sumerians
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the creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization
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Ziggurats
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tierred buildings that functioned as temples to the Sumerian gods
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Cuneiform
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wedge-shaped symbols created by pressing a stylus into wet mud; the first written language
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Babylonians/Chaldeans
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the leading state in Western Asia at one point; led by King Nebuchadnezzar; fell to the Persians
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Code of Hammurabi
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the first written law code, consisting of almost 300 strict laws using a system of exact retribution
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God-king
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leader of Egypt (aka pharoah) who was thought to be a divine messenger of the gods
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Menes
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the king of the first Egyptian royal dynasy who united Upper and Lower Egypt
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Pictograms
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pictures that stand for words
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Ideograms
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pictures that stand for ideas
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Monotheistic
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worshipping a single deity
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Polytheistic
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worshipping more than one deity
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Persians
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Indo-European people living in SW IRan; primarily nomadic, captured Babylon under Cyrus, practiced zoroastrianism
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Satraps
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governors of smaller divisions of the Persian empire
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