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Geo Exam Part I
Geography Exam 8
Term | Definition |
---|---|
responsible for writing & the wheel | Sumerians |
created the Hanging Gardens | Babylonians |
first to mint coins | Lydians |
early empire builders | Hittites |
alphabet | Phoenicians |
had no great accomplishments | Canaanites |
the false idea that man began as an animal | evolution |
who was the man God called out of Ur and to whom he promised Canaan? | Abraham |
Sumerian wedge-shaped writing | cuneiform |
A religion which did NOT begin in the Middle East | Hinduism |
Language spoken by most people in the Middle East today | Arabic |
the Middle East's most important natural resource | oil |
in which river valley did Indian civilization begin? | Indus |
the false belief that when a person dies, his soul is reborn as another person or animal | reincarnation |
this country was once called Persia | Iran |