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Middle East Study Guide
Ms. Fenton's Middle East Study Guide
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Geography
7th Grade
12/11/2008

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Oasis

Definition
  • A fertile or green area in an arid region (as a desert) 

  •  Something that provides refuge, relief, or pleasant contrast
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Red Sea
Definition
[image]A sea that lays between the Arabian penninsula and Africa, and also is under the Saiani Penninsula
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Ur (The City)
Definition
It is said in the Torah that Abraham was told to leave his cityof Cannan and travel to Ur.
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Rub' Al Khali

Definition
The desert that covers a quarter of Suadi Arabia's land. It is also known as the Empty Quarter.
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Gulf of Oman
Definition
It is a gulf the connects the Arabian Sea to the Strait of Hormuz.
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Canaan
Definition
Part of ancient Palestine between Jordan River & the Mediterranean —sometimes used to refer to all of ancient Palestine.
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Zion
Definition
A fortress that was the center of Jerusalem.
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Silk Road
Definition
Ancient trade route that extended from China to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Constantinople
Definition
A major economic in Turkey and the only city that is part of two contents.
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SUMERIANS
Definition

Sumerians are the people of ancient times that lived in the middle eastern land.

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Bedouin
Definition

Bedouins are people that lived and travel in the desert.

Most bedouins are nomadic heards.

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Hammurabi

 

 

Definition

Hammurabi was an ancient (THE SIXTH)king in the Babylonian empire

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Babylonians
Definition
Babilonian was an empire in mesopotamia and was later overthrown
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Byzantine Empire
Definition
An ancient empire of Mesopotamia and was developed around 1557
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Hagar
Definition
Hagar was abraham's second wife along with Sarah
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Sarah
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Sarah was abraham's first and original wife.
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Ishmael
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Ishmael was oneof Abraham's two sons, whose mother is Hagar and is mentioned in the Qu'ran
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Isaac
Definition
Isaac was Sharah's son and Abraham's son and is mentioned in the Torah.
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Kudrish People
Definition
Kurds are an ehtnic group in the middle east They are traditionally nomadic and are urban dwellers.
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Suleiman I(Magnificent)
Definition
He was the best sultan and made their economy rise
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Janissaries
Definition
the Sultan's chosen "gaurds"
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Kibbutz
Definition
a collective farm or settlement in Isreal
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Anwar Sadat
Definition
The president of Egypt, 1970-1981
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The Eodus
Definition
The second book in the old testament and discribes Israelis fleeingEgypt under Moses
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wadi
Definition
a streambed that remains dry eept in the rainy season
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Sharia
Definition
The code based on laws from the Qu'ran
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Caliph
Definition
Aleader of Islamic Polity, Muhammed's sucsessor
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secular
Definition
Freedom having different religous thoughts
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Balfour Decleration
Definition
The decloration that promised the establishment of a Jewish state
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Camp David Accords
Definition
a treaty that worked for Middle eastern peace
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Socialst Realism
Definition
Idealization of a dictatorship
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Muslim Calendar
Definition
A calendar based on Islamic beliefs
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Embargo
Definition
a government order to stop distrabuting goods to an area
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Petrochemicals
Definition
agricultural products from synthesized or refined products
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