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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 |