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7th Grade
02/21/2012

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What did the Sumerians use to record a form of writing called cuneiform?
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clay tablets
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According to whom, the Messiah is Jesus?
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Christians
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In the Jewish Faith, what is the Pay of Atonement?
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Yom Kippur
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What is the most important Christian Holy Day?
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Easter
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What kingdoms grew around the Nile Delta?
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Upper and Lower Egypt
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What obligations must Muslims fill?
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the Five Pillars of Faith
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What is the world's first known story?
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Epic of Gilgasin
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What was Egyptian civilization?
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the Gift of the Nile
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What has organized governments and religions and use technology and metals?
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civilization
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Who is most famous for building the " Hanging Gardens" of Babylon?
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the Chaldean king Nebuchandnezzar
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What is located 750 miles form Tripoli?
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Rabat
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What is another name for the Eastern Desert?
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the Arabian Desert
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Where does the Nile River begin and flow to?
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it begins in East Africa and flows north to the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean
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What is the capital of Tunisha?
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Tunis
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What is Egypt's major econimic activity?
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acriculture
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In the 1900s whose government built pipelines to carry water from desert to coastal areas?
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Libva's government
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What connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea?
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The Suez Canal
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What has been controlled by the Aswan High Dam?
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the flow of waster the Nile has
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Today, What is a Republic Democracy?
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Algeria
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