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105 Cards in this Set
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Sir Henry Rawlinson |
Deciphered cuneiform |
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Jean Francois Champollion |
Deciphered hieroglyphics |
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Hamurabis code |
The 1st set of written laws |
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Fertile Crescent |
One of the regions; rich farm area and birthplace of Mesopotamia |
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Northern tier |
One of the regions; runs from turkey to north iran |
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Arabian peninsula |
One of the regions; birthplace of islam |
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Nile valley |
One of the regions; home to Egyptian civilization |
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Maghreb |
One of the regions; covers north africa |
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Resources exported from the Middle East |
Petroleum, phosphates, coal, oil |
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3 major religions |
1) Islam 2) Christianity 3) Judaism |
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3 main languages |
1) Arabic 2) Turkish 3) Hebrew |
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The number of countries |
19 |
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70 days |
How many days the mummification process took |
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A stylus was used in this writing system |
Cuneiform |
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Kurds |
Major ethnic group with no state/country |
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Population of Middle East |
400 million people |
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Organs the Egyptians put in the canopic jars |
Lungs, liver, stomach and intestines |
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Book of the dead |
"Cheat sheet" for the afterlife-Egyptians |
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Sumerian moon god |
Nanna |
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Bazaar |
Sumerian market place |
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Worlds largest peninsula |
Arabian peninsula |
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Holy city of Islam |
Mecca |
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Mohammed |
Last and greatest prophet of islam |
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Holy book of islam |
Koran |
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Shahadah |
5 pillars; faith |
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Salah |
5 pillars; prayer |
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Zakah |
5 pillars; alms |
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Sawm |
5 pillars; fasting |
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Hajj |
5 pillars; pilgrimage |
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Nickname for the Middle East |
Near east |
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Anubis |
Egyptian God of embalming |
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Sargon the great |
Conquered all 12 Sumerian states |
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Angel Gabriel |
The angel Mohammed saw |
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Sura |
Chapter in Koran |
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The amount of Palestine given to israel |
55% of Palestine |
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Kabaa |
Islam holy shrine |
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The year most middle eastern countries got independence mosque |
1950s |
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Mosque |
Where Muslims worship |
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Instanbul |
2nd largest city |
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Jordan's type of government |
Limited monarchy |
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Jehad |
Holy war |
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Ala |
Egyptian name for god |
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Pan arab |
United arab |
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Sumerian accomplishment |
Sail, wheel, cuneiform, chariot |
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Egyptian accomplishment |
Pyramids, paper and mummies |
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Hittites accomplishment |
Turkey; iron weapons, 2 man chariot and archers |
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Phoenicians accomplishment |
East Mediterranean; alphabet, purple and glass |
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Babylonians accomplishment |
Iraq; laws and hanging gardens |
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Lydians accomplishment |
Turkey; 1st coin |
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Assyrians accomplishment |
Northern Mesopotamia; Calvary and library |
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Persians accomplishment |
Almost all Middle East; postal system, Zoroastrianism |
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Mazda |
Zoroastrianism wise lord |
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Ahriman |
Zoroastrianism evil spirit |
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Atum |
Egyptian creator god |
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Geb |
Egyptian God of earth |
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Amin re |
Egyptian sun god |
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Nut |
Egyptian goddess of sky/heavens |
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Mut |
Egyptian mother of all living things |
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Khonsu |
Egyptian moon God |
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Osiris |
Was Egyptian God of vegetation, now God of the afterlife |
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Isis |
Egyptian goddess of agriculture |
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Horus |
Egyptian God of sky |
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Set (Seth) |
Egyptian God of wasteland |
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Ma'at |
Egyptian goddess of truth and justice |
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Bes |
Egyptian God of women and children |
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Hathor |
Egyptian goddess of love and joy |
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Shariah |
Sacred law of Islam -unites all Muslims -Saudi Arabia and Iran use it |
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Turkeys government |
Parliamentary republic |
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Israels government |
Parliamentary democracy |
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Syria and irans government |
Dominating republic |
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Saudi Arabias government |
Absolute monarchy |
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Jordan's government |
Constitutional monarchy (limited) |
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Israels independence date |
May 14, 1948 |
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1948 |
The date of the Arab Israel war -should Israel or Palestine control the gaza strip? |
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Start of the Persian gulf wat |
Iraq said Kuwait was their lost 19th province - jan 17, 1991- feb 28, 1991 - land war lasted 100 hours |
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Cairo |
1st largest |
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Tehran |
3rd largest city |
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City of the dead |
Cities in Cairo that are in cemeteries |
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Percent of the world that is islam |
23% -1.6 billion peole |
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Black stone |
A rock that the Arabs believed was a gift sent from heaven |
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Bedouin |
Arab nomad, leading trade caravans across the desert |
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Khadijah (khadya) |
Mohammed's wife |
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Abu Bakr |
Ordered the Koran to be written |
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Allah |
Arabian word for god |
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Hanifs |
People who worshipped one god |
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Yathrib |
The city Mohammed took his followers to after khadyas death -later changed to medina |
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Hegira |
Migration of Mohammed's followers -Mecca to medina -year one on calendar |
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Battle of Badr |
Mohammed's holy war to capture mecca |
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632 AD |
Year Mohammed dies |
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Mohammed's caliphs |
-Abu Bakr -Omar -Umayyad -Ali |
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661 AD |
Ali was assassinated and omayyad family took control |
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Shias |
Believed Ali was Mohammad's successor -Iran and Bahrain |
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Sunis |
Followers of omayyad family -85% of all Muslims |
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King tut |
1332 BC Egypt -18th dynasty |
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Cleopatra |
30 BC Egypt -30th dynasty (last) |
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Nile river |
4,132 miles -lower and upper Egypt |
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Ka |
Egyptian spirit that stays with body |
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Ba |
Egyptian wandering spirit |
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Serdab |
Small statue of deceased person |
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3500 BC |
Worlds first civilization in Mesopotamia |
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Behiston rock |
Rock found with cuneiform |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
Oldest known literary work |
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The percent of worlds exported oil |
49% |
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Scribe |
Someone who can write |
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Major ethnic groups |
1) Arabs - Turks - Hebrews - Kurds |
