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Isfahan

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capital of ancient iran

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kurds

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iran

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3
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axeris

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turkic speaking people in azerbaijan

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4
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zorastrians

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iran

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5
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shah

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king

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mohammed reza shah

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iran overthrown by iranian revolution too secular

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mohamed mossadagh

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Iranian PM overthrown by CIA

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8
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operation ajax

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UK and US overthrow mossadagh

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9
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savak

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iranian secret police

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10
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ayatollah Khomeni

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led islamic revolution died in 1989

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11
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bahai

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iran

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12
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Iran-Iraq war

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war over nothing, no real reason to start

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Ayatollah Khamenei

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Current ruler of Iran

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14
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Hasan rouhani

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current president of Iran

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15
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Mullah

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muslim educated in theology

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16
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Asia Minor/Anatolia

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refers to Turkey

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17
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Bosporus

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Turkey - strait boundary of Asia and Europe

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18
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Istanbul

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NW Turkey

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19
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Constantinople

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capital for Roman and Byzantine Latin and Ottoman empires

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20
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Turkish

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Altaic language

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21
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Kemal Ataturk

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Turkey - first prime minister lots of reform

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22
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young turks

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a coalition starting in the late 1870s to get a new constitution

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23
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Kemalism

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six arrows - reforms designed to separate the new state of Turkey from its Ottoman tradition and embrace a Westernized way of living

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24
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Kabul

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Afghanistan - bottom right near pakistan

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25
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herat

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top left afghanistan

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26
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pushtum

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indo-european people from ancient eas tpersia

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pashto

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language of pashtum Afghanistan

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tajiks

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Afghanistan - wide group of persian speaking people

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Uzbeks

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Afg - largest turkic ethnic group, sunni muslim background

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taliban

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afgh - religious fundamentalist group

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bamyan

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northern central afghanistan - buddhas

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osama

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afgh leader of al queada

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mujahiddin

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rebels in afghanistan

34
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hamid karzai

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politician that came into power after Taliban removed in 2001

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menes

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united egypt

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memphis

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capital of old egyptian kingdom near head of nile delta

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khufu

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built largesty pryamid

38
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Jean Francis Champillion

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translated roseta stone

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nefretiti

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Wife of Akhenaten known for a religious revolution for which they only worshiped one god, Aten

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avesta

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zoroastrian teachings

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avestan

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language of avesta

42
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gathas

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songs by zoraster

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ahura mazda, ahriman

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good god, bad guy

44
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henotheism

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one main god lots of others

45
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ur

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where abraham was born

46
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patriarchs of judaism

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abraham isaac jacob

47
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canaan

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lebanon israel/palestine

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saul/paul

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convert to christianity prosthelytized

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hebrew scriptures

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torah, prophets, and writings

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bethlehem

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west bank - where jesus was born

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nazareth

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israel where jesus grew up

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holy trinity

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god the father jesus the son and the hol spirirt

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constantine

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first roman emperor to convert to christianitty

54
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edict of milan

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constantine - rome stop harassing christians

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sassanids and ctesiphon

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arabia felix

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area in southern arabia now known as yemen to be very fertile

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jahillyya

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preislamic ignorant age

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yathrib

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khadija

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muhammeds first wife

60
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minaret and muezzin

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where prayer is called and who calls it

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husayn

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son of Ali murdered by ummayads and a martyr for shi

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druze

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alawis

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Caliphs

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abu bakr, umar, uthman, ali

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jizya

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tax paid by non muslims

66
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tours/poitiers

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where the conquests stopped

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