vocabulary 042011
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| 2nd largest city in Egypt. Sea port | Alexandria
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| marketplace | souks
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| North African country on the Mediterranean Sea | Egypt
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| 2nd President of Egypt | Gamal Abdel Nasser
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| the ninth month of the Islamic calendar | Ramadan
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| Jewish Holiday - the day of atonement | Yom Kippur
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| leader of Libya since a military coup on 1 September 1969, when he overthrew King Idris and established the Libyan Arab Republic | Muammar el-Qaddafi
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| fertile or green area in a desert | Oasis
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| mountain range in southern Turkey, a great chain running parallel to the Mediterranean coast. The system extends along a curve from Lake Egridir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates River in the east. | Taurus Mountains
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| North African country just east of Morocco | Algeria
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| Capital of Saudi Arabia | Riyadh
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| Capital of Egypt | Cairo
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| channel connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, lying between southernmost Spain and northwesternmost Africa | Strait of Gibraltar
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| name applied to a group of dialects of the Central Semitic languages, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. | Arabic
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| monotheistic religion articulated by the Qur’an, a text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God. | Islam
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| an immense stone sculpture of a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human...Carved from limestone | Great Sphinx
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| a member of a people who move seasonally from place to place to search for food and water or pasture for their livestock | Nomads
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| A slab or plaque, as of stone or ivory, with a surface that is intended for or bears an inscription. | Tablet
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| one of the most saline bodies of water in the world, is an inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia | Red Sea
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| a civilization centered around the Phoenician city-state of Carthage, located in North Africa on the Gulf of Tunis, outside what is now Tunis, Tunisia | carthage
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