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
Leader of the Chinese Communists
Mao Tse-tung
Only woman pharaoh of ancient Egypt
Hatshepsut
The father of faith missions
Hudson Taylor
Righteous Batswana chief
Khama
The first known African Christian
The Ethiopian eunuch
The queen of cannibals
Mary Slessor
First black president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela
First Egyptian leader to make peace with Israel
Anwar Sadat
Greatest missionary explorer to Africa
David Livingstone
The father of American missions
Adoniram Judson
This was the key to understanding hieroglyphics
The Rosetta stone
An Egyptian device for irrigating crops
A shadoof
The country once called the spice Islands
Indonesia
The country that is called the Land of the Rising Sun
Japan
This city was a famous center of learning in Africa
Timbuktu
Africa’s highest mountain
Mount Kilimanjaro
The fourth largest island in the world
Madagascar
Where is the Barbary Coast located?
The Mediterranean Sea
The following is not a need in Africa today
Natural resources
Name three needs of Africa today
The Gospel, a stable government, and education
The capital of Egypt
Cairo
The capital of Sudan
Khartoum
The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kinshasa
The capital of Ethiopia
Addis Absba
The capital of Kenya
Nairobi
Capitals of South Africa
Cape Town and
The capital of Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
The capital of China
Beijing
Capital of India
New Delhi
The capital of Iraq
Baghdad
The capital of Israel
Jerusalem
Capital of Japan
Tokyo
The capital of South Korea
Seoul
The capital of Syria
Damascus
The capital of Taiwan
Taipei
The capital of Thailand
Bangkok
The capital of Turkey
Ankara
Find these countries on a map
China, India, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
Find these locations on a map
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Horn of Africa, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Strait of Gibraltar, Drakensburg mountains
Locate these mountains on a map
The Alps, the Andes, the Appallachians, Mount Ararat, the Atlas Mountains, Mount Elbrus, Mount Everest, Mount Fuji, the great dividing Range, the Himalayas, Mount Kilimanjaro, the Matterhorn, Mount McKinley, Monte Blanc, the Rockies, the Urals
