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what does Mesopotamia mean

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the land between rivers

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what are Muslims

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followers of Islam

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Saudi Arabia

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country rich in oil

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Tigris and Euphrates are what type of rivers?

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exotic rivers

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where are the Hindu Kusch mountains located

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Afghanistan

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Country in civil war since 2011

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Syria

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Mecca

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the holy city of Islam

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mosque

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an Islamic house of worship

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Koran

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sacred book of Islam

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Oasis

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a place where springs bubble to the surface in desert areas and plants grow

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Allah

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the one and only God of Islam

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fertile crescent

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an area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations flourished.

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Akkadians

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a group of people who conquered the Sumerians

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Muhammad

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The creator of the Islam religion, a said to be prophet of God

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bilingualism

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being able to speak two languages

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Safavid

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a member of a dynasty that ruled Persia 1502–1736 and installed Shi’a rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion

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Sunni

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one of the two main branches of Islam

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Shi’ism

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one of the two main branches of Islam

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Zionism

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the movement that called for Jews to set up their own country or homeland in Palestine

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Kurds

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a minority group in Turkey and neighboring countries

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sultan

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ottoman rulers

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holocaust

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the murder of 6 million Jews during WW2

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west bank

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the name given to the territory that was captured by Jordan in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and subsequently annexed in 1950 until 1967 when it was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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byzantine empire

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was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Makinley world geography study stuff (4 decks)

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