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1) The term historians use to describe a culture that has reached a certain level of development is ___________________

2) The kind of government of city-states in which the ruler was both the religious leader and the king is ______________.

3) The Sumerian method of writing using wedged-shaped markings on moist clay tablets is _____________________

4) A name for an ancient Egyptian ruler is _____________________

5) A religion that has many gods is _____________________.

6) Egyptian tombs for pharaohs are _____________________

7) The ancient Egyptian form of picture writing is _____________________.

8) The belief in one supreme god is _____________________

9) The scattering of Jews outside of the Holy Land is the _____________________

10) The savior that Jews believe God will deliver to the Jewish people is a __ ______________________

11) Military campaigns organized by Catholic popes and kings to capture the city of Jerusalem were _________________

12) The obligations all Muslims must fulfill are the ______________________

13) A pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah) to pray is the _____________________.

DIRECTIONS: Writing Sentences Use each of the following terms correctly in a complete sentence on a separate paper.

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Physical Maps

Place Location Activity

Reproduce the physical map of Southwest Asia for each student. Ask students to:

Reproduce the physical map of North Africa.

Label the counties. (North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia)

Label the rivers and major bodies of water. (Nile River, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea)

Label the following: Atlas Mountains, Western Sahara, Aswan High Dam, Sinai Peninsula.

Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent Map

Place Location Activity

Reproduce the Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent map for each student. Ask students [0:

Label the following land areas: Europe, Asia Minor, Phoenicia, Persia, Akkad, Sumer, Egypt, Sinai Peninsula, and Arabian Ocean.

· Label the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Nile River, Tigris River, and Euphrates River.

· Locate and label the following cities: Tyre, Nineveh, Babylon, and Ur.

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Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt

DIRECTIONS: Summarizing Reading the section and completing the summary paragraphs below will help you learn more about Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Use your textbook to fill in the blanks.

The earliest known human civilizations in the world were

(1) _____________________in North Africa and (2) _____________________in South- west Asia. Historians use the word (3) _____________________to describe a cultural that has reached a certain level of development. The development includes a system of writing, building cities, and specialized workers.

One of the first civilizations started between the (4) _____________________and (5) _____________________ Rivers. This region was then called (6) _____________________. It was an area of rich farmland, so it has been described as the (7) _____________________. People settled in the region because they knew it would be a good area to farm. Some of the villages grew into (8) _____________________, which were made up of the city and farmland around it. (9_____________________was one of the earliest of these city-states.

The first empire in the region was the (10) _____________________Empire. It eventually gave way to (11) _____________________, whose greatest king was (12) _____________________

Ancient Egypt started in the (13) _____________________ river Valley. Egypt was ruled by a (14_____________________. The Egyptian religion was a (15_____________________one, which means it had many gods. The Egyptians believed in life after death. The pharaohs were buried in big tombs called (16) ______________________

The ancient Egyptian system of writing is called (17) _____________________Language experts learned how to read the Egyptian writing when they cracked the code on the (18__________________________________________

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1. What do the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common?

2. What items make up the complete Torah, the holy book of the Jews?

3. What are some beliefs of Judaism?

4. What are some beliefs of Christianity?

5. What items make up the Bible, the holy book of the Christians?

6. How was the spread of Christianity achieved?

7. What are the followers of Islam called?

8. What does the Quran, the Muslim holy book, describe?

9. Why is Ramadan an important holiday on the Muslim calendar?