practice test unit 2 Flashcards
The great falls on the Zambezi River is ____.
Victoria Falls
Moses received the ____ while the nation of Israel was in Saudi Arabia.
Ten Commandments
who freed the Hebrews and allowed them to return to Canaan
Cyrus the great
who took the Hebrews to Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar the second
Solomon
who expanded the kingdom of Israel’s influence to its greatest extent
The word _____ means “without cold.”
Africa
The greatest king of Israel was ____.
David
Upper Egypt is in the ____ of Egypt.
south
The lifeline of Egypt is the _____ River.
Nile
Egyptian society was _____.
patriarchal
The Middle East is also called the ____.
Crossroads of the World
The ____ served as monuments and tombs for those who built them.
pyramids
What name is given to the early period of Central America?
Mesoamerica
The area that comprises the former kingdom of Kush is called ____.
Nubia
disprese
to scatter or to travel away from a center point
basalt
a dark rock formed from lava
The area at the end of the Mediterranean Sea, made up of parts of three continents, is called the ____.
Middle East
The term ______ means south of the Sahara.
sub-Sahara
Hyksos
The ____ were a Semitic people who brought bronze tools and weapons to Egypt.
Abraham came to _____ from Ur in Mesopotamia.
Canaan
Incas
built the largest empire in South America
The Nile Delta flows into the _____.
Mediterranean Sea
The pharaoh who tried to bring monotheism to Egypt was ____.
Akhenaten
The Old Kingdom is also called ____.
the Age of the Pharaohs
The Anasazi lived ____.
in cliffs in the American West
Upper Egypt is in the ____ of Egypt.
south
A great grassland of southern Africa is called the ____.
Great Karoo
The nation of Ethiopia covers the area that once was the kingdom of ____.
Axum
The Hebrews were led out of slavery in Egypt by ____.
Moses
The word Sahel indicates ____.
the division between the Sahara and the grasslands to the south
