Abeka 5Th Grade History Ch 1-9

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Ethiopia & Liberia

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African countries that remained independent

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Atlas

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mountain range along the northwest coast of Africa

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Barbary Coast

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known for its pirates

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Cairo

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Egypt's capital

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Cairo

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Africa's largest city

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Aswan High Dam

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controls Nile flooding

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Suez Canal

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man made water way that connects Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea

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Anwar Sadat

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Egyptian President who made peace with Israel

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Sudan

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largest country in Africa

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Khartoum

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Sudan's capital

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Desert

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too cold or dry for plants to grow

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Oasis

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a desert area made fertile by the presence of water

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Tanganyika

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longest and deepest lake in the world

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Kenyatta

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first president of Kenya

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Serengeti National Park

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located in Tanzania

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Henry Stanley

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traced the Congo River

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Emperor Haile Selassie I

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modernized Ethiopia

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Communism

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system of government that threat to Africa's struggling countries

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South Africa

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Nelson Mandela

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Egypt

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first Arab nation to make peace with Israel

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Sudd

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world's largest swamp

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Pygmies

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Democratic Republic of Congo

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Liberia

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founded for freed slaves

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South Africa

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wealthiest nation in Africa

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Everest

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world's highest mountain peak

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McKinley

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North America's highest mountain peak

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Kilimanjaro

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Africa's highest mountain

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Elbrus

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Europe's highest mountain

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Ararat

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Noah's Ark landing site

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Monte Blanc

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highest peak in the Alps

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Fuji

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held sacred by many Japanese

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Sumerians

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writing; the wheel

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Babylonians

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Hanging Gardens

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Lydians

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coins

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Hittites

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early empire builders

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Phoneicians

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alphabet

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Canaanites

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no great accomplishment

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Evolution

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false idea that man began as an animal

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B.C./A.D.

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divided by Christ's coming

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Abraham

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God promised the land of Canaan

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Cuneiform

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wedge shaped writing

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Christianity, Islam, Judaism

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religions begun in the Middle East

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Arabic

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spoken language of the Middle East

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Oil

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Middle East most important natural resource

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Indus River

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river valley of Indian civilization

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Tigris/Euphrates

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river valley of Mesopotamia

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Huang He

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river valley of China

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Reincarnation

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soul is reborn as a man or animal

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Persia

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Iran

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Straight of Gibralter

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water that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean

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Lake Victoria

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second largest freshwater lake in the world

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Mao Tse-tung

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leader of Communist China

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Hatshepsut

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only woman pharaoh of ancient Egypt

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Hudson Taylor

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"Father of Faith Missions"

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Khama

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Batswana Chief

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Ethiopian eunuch

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first known African Christian

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Mary Slessor

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"Queen of the Cannibals"

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Nelson Mandela

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first black president of South Africa

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David Livingstone

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greatest missionary explorer to Africa

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Adoniram Judson

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"Father of American Missions"

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Confucius

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Chinese philosopher

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Khufu

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for whom the Great Pyramid was built

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Rosetta Stone

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key to hieroglyphics

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Shadoof

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Egyptian device for irrigating crops

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Indonesia

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"Spice Islands"

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Japan

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"Land of the Rising Sun"

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Timbuktu

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famous center for learning in Africa

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Madagascar

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fourth largest island in the world

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Barbary Coast

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located on the Mediterranean Sea

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Kinshasa

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Ethiopia

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Addis Ababa

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Kenya

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Nairobi

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South Africa

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Cape Town

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Tanzania

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Dar es Salaam

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China

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Beijing

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India

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New Delhi

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Iraq

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Baghdad

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Israel

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Jerusalem

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Japan

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Tokyo

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South Korea

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Seoul

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Syria

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Damascus

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Taiwan

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Taipei

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Thailand

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Bangkok

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Turkey

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Ankara