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Physical Geography & Arabian Peninsula
Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile River
Mesopotamia Civilization
Ancient Egypt

Religions of the Middle East
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1. What is the best word to describe the climate of the Middle East?
Arid
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6. How many major rivers are there in the Middle East?
Three
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11. How long ago did this civilization begin?
10,000 years ago
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16. What was the type of paper the ancient Egyptians used called?
Papyrus
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21. What three religions originated in SW Asia?
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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2. What is a synonym for arid?
Dry
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7. What are the name of the three major rivers?
Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile Rivers.
200
12. What resulted from the agricultural revolution?
Advanced civilizations spread
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17. What is a synonym for Pharaoh?
King
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22. What do all 3 religions have in common?
The belief in one god.
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3. What is the name of the largest desert in the world?
The Sahara Desert
300
8. Why is the land around these three rivers so fertile?
Silt is deposited by flooding.
300
13. Why were animals domesticated?
for food and labor resources
300
18. Where are the great pyramids located?
Giza
300
23. How was Judaism spread?
Migration
400
4. Where do most people live on the Arabian Peninsula?
On the fertile coasts that are good for farming.
400
9. What is the longest river in the world?
Nile River
400
14. What were the political units called that developed from the growth of cities?
City-states
400
19. What was the name of the Egyptian writing?
hieroglyphics
400
24. How was Christianity spread?
Missionaries and Colonization
500
5. Why is the arabian Peninsula important to the rest of the world?
petrolium reserves (oil)
500
10. Why is it called the Fertile Crescent?
Shape of the fertile land between the rivers.
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15. What was the major city of the Mesopotamia civilization called?
Ur
500
20. For what were the pyramids used?
Tombs for the dead
500
How was Islam spread?
Trade