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Test 8
2nd Quarter Nine-Week Exam: Chapters 6-9
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History
5th Grade
11/17/2011

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A Chinese tower with many stories, each with its own roof
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pagoda
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A famous center of learning during the Middle Ages
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Timbuktu
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Africa's highest mountain
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
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An Egyptian device for irrigating crops
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shadoof
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Current needs of Africa
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the gospel
stable government
education
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First Egyptian leader to make peace with Israel
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Anwar Sadat
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First black president of South Africa
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Nelson Mandela
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First known African Christian
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Ethiopian eunuch
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Great missionary-explorer to Africa
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David Livingstone
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki are two cities in this country
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Japan
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Leader of the Chinese Communists
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Mao Tse-tung
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One of the capitals of South Africa
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Cape Town
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Only woman pharoah of ancient Egypt
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Hatshepsut
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Righteous Batswana chief
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Khama
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The "Father of American Missions"
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Adoniram Johnson
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The "Father of Faith Missions"
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Hudson Taylor
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The "Queen of Cannibals"
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Mary Slessor
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The Italian trader who wrote a book about his experiences in China once he returned to Europe
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Marco Polo
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The Middle East's most important natural resource today
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oil
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The belief that when a person dies his soul is reborn in some other newborn man or animal
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reincarnation
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The body of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
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Strait of Gibraltar
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The capital of China
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Beijing
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The capital of Egypt
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Cairo
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The capital of Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa
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The capital of India
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New Delhi
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The capital of Iraq
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Baghdad
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The capital of Israel
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Jerusalem
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The capital of Japan
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Tokyo
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The capital of Kenya
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Nairobi
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The capital of South Korea
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Seoul
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The capital of Sudan
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Khartoum
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The capital of Syria
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Damascus
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The capital of Taiwan
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Taipei
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The capital of Tanzania
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Dar es Salaam
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The capital of Thailand
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Bangkok
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The capital of Turkey
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Ankara
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The capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Kinshasa
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The city which was a famous center of learning in Africa
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Timbuktu
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The country called the "Land of the Rising Sun"
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Japan
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The country once called the "Spice Islands"
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Indonesia
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The country which was once called Persia
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Iran
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The fourth largest island in the world
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Madagascar
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The fractional part of the world's population that lives in China
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1/5
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The key to understanding hieroglyphics
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the Rosetta Stone
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The language spoken by most people in the Middle East today
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Arabic
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The largest city in Africa
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Cairo
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The largest country in Africa
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Sudan
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The location of Serengeti National Park
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Tanzania
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The river valley where Indian civilization began
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Indus
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The second largest freshwater lake in the world
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Lake Victoria
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The short descendants of the original inhabitants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Pygmies
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The structure built to control flooding of the Nile
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Aswan High Dam
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The two African countries that were never colonies of Europe
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Liberia and Ethiopia
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The waterway separating Africa and Asia
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Suez Canal
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The world's largest swamp
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Sudd
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Where the Barbary Coast is located
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Mediterranean Sea
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World's first paper-like material
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papyrus
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a body wrapped and preserved for eternal life
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mummy
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a tall, pointed pillar representing the sun god Ra
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obelisk
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a time of serious shortage of food
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famine
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second in command to the Egyptian king
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vizier
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title given to an Egyptian king
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pharoah
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