Physical Geo
Very dry (usually a dessert)
What is Arid?
Find particles of soil that go along the riverbanks. It makes soil fertile.
What is silt?
It covers 250,000 square miles of southern Saudi Arabia. It can also mean empty quarter.
What is Rub al Khali?
One of the most important Sumerian city-states also a center of trade. and became a major port.
What is Ur?
Is a religious journey.
What is pilgrimage?
The gradual transition from fertile to less productive land.
What is desertification?
The process redirecting water to crops using channels in ditches.
What is irrigation?
Center of civilization from which ideas & and technology spread to other cultures.
What is Cultural Hearth?
The king of Babylonia during the 1700s BCE developed a Law Code.
Who is Hammurabi?
The monotheistic religion of the Jewish people.
What is Judaism?
Something that you can depend on
What is reliable?
The area surrounding and extending from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Fertile Crescent?
A shift from gathering food to growing your food.
What is agricultural revolution?
Emerged as king of Babylonia from 605-562 BCE after the death of Hammurabi. He was very ambitious in rebuilding the port at Ur.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus Christ, or its beliefs and practices.
What is Christianity?
The largest hot desert in the world, covering most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Unrefined oil. Develops from tiny animals and plants that have died millions of years ago. Can be refined into gasoline or diesel fuel and other products.
What is Petroleum?
Independent political states
What are City-states?
Workship one god.
What is Monotheistic?
The religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
What is Islam?
Flat area of land located next to a stream or a river that floads.
What is Alluvial Plain?
It is a resource that cannot be reproduced quickly enough to keep pace with its use.
What is Non-renewable?
First known form of writing
What is Cuneiform?
A leader or savior in terms of religion?
What is a Messiah?
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?