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39 Cards in this Set
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Amman
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Jordon |
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Ankara |
Turkey |
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Bagdad |
Iraq |
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Beirut |
Lebanon |
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Damascus |
Syria |
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Jerusalem |
Israel |
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Riyadh |
Saudi Arabia |
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Tehran |
Iran |
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oil |
most important natural resource in the Middle East |
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fertile |
land that is able to grow |
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Turkey
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Asia Minor |
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Sinai Peninsula |
triangular peninsula between Egypt and Israel |
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Istanbul
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largest city in Turkey |
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David Ben-Gurion |
first prime minister of Israel |
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Zionism |
movement to regather the Jews to their land |
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Muhammad |
founder of Islam |
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plateaus |
high, level lands |
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Henry Martyn |
missionary to the Middle East |
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Artic Circle |
line of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere |
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Antarctic Circle
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line of latitude between the South Pole and the equator |
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Tropic of Capricorn |
line of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere |
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Tropic of Cancer |
line of latitude in between the North Pole and the equator |
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equator |
important line of latitude which divides the Northern and Southern Hemisphere |
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prime meridian |
important line of longitude measuring east or west |
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Asia |
largest continent |
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Caspian Sea
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largest lake |
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Himalayas |
highest mountain system |
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Mt Everest altitude |
29,035 ft. |
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China |
country with the most people |
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Mt Everest
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highest mountain |
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Arabian Peninsula |
largest peninsula |
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Mt Ararat |
Noah's ark landed here |
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hot and dry |
Middle East climate |
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Arabic |
language of the Middle East |
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1948 |
Israel became a nation |
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Lebanon |
cedar trees |
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Saudi Arabia |
largest country in the Middle East |
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Koran |
holy book of Islam |
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Persia |
Iran |
