Chapter 1-9 Review Flashcards
This nation contributed the Hanging Gardens
The Babylonians
This country contributed writing and the wheel to society
Sumerians
This country used coins
The Lydians
This nation was responsible for early empire building
The Hittites
This nation developed the alphabet
The Phoenicians
This country had no great accomplishments
The Canaanites
The false idea that man began as an animal
Evolution
What event divides time into BC and A.D.
Christ’s coming to ; his birth
The man God called out of Ur and promised the land of Canaan to
Abraham
Sumerian wedge-shaped writing
Cuneiform
A religion that did not begin in the Middle East
Hinduism
Language spoken by most people in the Middle East today
Arabic
The Middle East’s most important natural resource today
Oil
The river valley where the Indian civilization began
The Indus River Valley
The belief that one person dies his soul is reborn in some other newborn man or animal
Reincarnation
The country that was once called Persia
Iran
The largest country in Africa
Sudan
World’s largest swamp
The Sudd
The structure built to control flooding of the Nile
The Aswan High Dam
Body of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
Straits of Gibraltar
The waterway separating Africa and Asia
The Suez Canal
The second largest freshwater lake in the world
Lake Victoria
Largest city in Africa
Cairo
Two African countries that were never colonies of Europe
Liberia and Ethiopia
The short descendants of the original inhabitants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pygmies
Serengeti national Park is located in this country
Tanzania