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The Middle East Flashcards

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First Mesopotamian civilazation

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Sumer

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Sumerian economy was based on

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Barter System

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Mesopotamia means

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Land between two rivers

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First written language

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Cuneiform

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Period before written records

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Prehistory

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Mesopotamia is located in modern day

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Iraq

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Sumerian economy was based on

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A barter system

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Mesopotamia means

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Land between to rivers

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First written language

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Cuneiform

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Period before written records

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Pre-history

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11
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Pyramid of Giza contained whose tomb

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King Khufu

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The Great Pyramids are guarded by the

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Sphinx

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The process of drying out and preserving the body

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Mummification

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The Egyptian period of expansion when the Pharaoh built public works and provided public welfare

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Middle Kingdom

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Egyptian kings were called

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Pharaohs

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Only tomb found intact

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King Tut

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Ideograms used for formal writings

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Hieroglyphics

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Main source of water for people of Egypt

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The Nile River

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Pastoral nomads that later developed into Greeks, Persians, Sanskrit, and German

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Indo-Europeans

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This group of people lived all the coast of the Mediterranean, had large trading empire and developed an alphabet that is still used.

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Phonecians

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This King posted the first law code on 7’2 in stone tablet for all to see

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Hammurabi

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Persian Empire was conquered by

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Alexander the Great

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Which empire used horse drawn chariots w/ bows and arrows during attack but fell to the Chaldeans

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Assyrians

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Hittite Empire was located in

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Turkey

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Under Darius’ rule this empire would be divided into 20 provinces known as satrapies

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Persian Empire

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A governor like official associated with the Persian Empire

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Satrap

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Chief of Arab tribe

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Sheik

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They instilled fear in all they conquered

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Assyrians

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The patron of embalming

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Osiris

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First women to become pharaoh; would represent herself as a man

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Hatshepsut

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Invaded Egypt to end the Middle Kingdom

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Hyksos

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Wanted Egypt to worship one god

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Akhenaton

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An official in charge of a bureaucracy for Pharaoh

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Vizier

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United Upper and Lower Egypt

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Menes

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Last Pharaoh of Egypt

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Cleopatra

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His tomb and artifacts were untouched

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King Tut

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Expanded the empire and was possibly the pharaoh of the Hebrew Exodus

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Ramses II

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Chief Egyptian god

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Ra

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Capital of Umayyed Dynasty

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Damascus

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Successor of Muhammad

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Caliph

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Battle stopped Muslim expansion into Gual

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Battle of tours

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Islam means

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Submission to the will of God

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Muslim leader during the crusades who retook the city of Jerusalem

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Selim I

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Safavid Empire is located in modern day

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Iran

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Founder of the Ottoman Empire

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Osman

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Britain used this as a military strategy to defeat the Ottomans during WWI

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Nationalism

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Mustafa Kemels success in Turkey help him gain the nick name

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Ataturk

48
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Movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine

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Zionism

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After WWI, the Ottoman Empire would only consist of

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Turkey

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After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire its territories were divided between

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British and French

51
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The goal of the PLO

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Destroy Israel,and reclaim Palestine

52
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After WWII, what place became a British Mandate

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Palestine

53
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Ayatolla means

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Sign of Allah

54
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Which U.S President assisted with the Camp David Accords

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Jimmy Carter

55
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Persian Gulf War was caused by

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Iraq invading Kuwait

56
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This conflict ended in a United Nations ceasefire

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Yom Kippur War

57
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What is a reason the Arab League would fail

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Lack of geographic unity

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Persia became what country in 1935

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Iran

59
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Who was the 1st president of the Arab League

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Nasser

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