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World Cultures North Africa Southwest Asia And Central Asia
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1. Large - agricultural region including Mesopotamia
Exclave
Fertile Crescent
Natural Boundary
Nomads
2. Basic urban necessities such as streets and utilities
Atlas Mountains
Atlas Mountains
Infrastructure
Mujahideen
3. A form of Islam practiced in Oman
Aquifers
Ibadhism
Persian Empire
Alluvial Soil
4. Large - agricultural region including Mesopotamia
Desalination
Fertile Crescent
Landlocked
Mesopotamia
5. A fixed limit or extent defined along physical geographic features such as mountains and rivers
Suez Canal
Qanats
Culture Hearths
Natural Boundary
6. Often follow straight lines and do no account for natural and cultural features (exist between Libya - Egypt - and Algeria)
Exclave
Arable
Suez Canal
Geometric Boundaries
7. Islamic law
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8. A process by which salt is removed from seawater
Alluvial Soil
Mesopotamia
Infrastructure
Desalination
9. The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Atlas Mountains
Arable
Geometric Boundaries
Mesopotamia
10. Streambeds that remain dry until a heavy rain
Sheikhdoms
Wadis
Hieroglyphics
Exclave
11. Underground canals
Desalination
Exclave
Domesticate
Qanats
12. A territory that is culturally or ethnically different from surrounding larger cultures
Mesopotamia
Enclave
Emirs
Wadis
13. Streambeds that remain dry until a heavy rain
Wadis
Geometric Boundaries
Cuneiform
Prophets
14. Adapting plants and animals from the wild for such uses as food - clothing - and transportation
Domesticate
Arable
Embargo
Mesopotamia
15. An important shipping lane that connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea across Egypt
Nationalism
Bedouin
Pastoralism
Suez Canal
16. Underground canals
Commodities
Wadis
Qanats
Egypt
17. Territories ruled by an Islamic religious leader
Phosphate
Nationalism
Sheikhdoms
Hajj
18. A territory that is culturally or ethnically different from surrounding larger cultures
Geometric Boundaries
kums
Enclave
Fertile Crescent
19. Often follow straight lines and do no account for natural and cultural features (exist between Libya - Egypt - and Algeria)
Mujahideen
Geometric Boundaries
Arable
Enclave
20. Wedge-shaped symbols written on clay tablets
Cuneiform
Enclave
Qanats
Mesopotamia
21. A house of worship where Muslims pray
Shari'ah
Crude Oil
Hieroglyphics
Mosque
22. Suitable for farming
Oasis
Arable
Suez Canal
Commodities
23. Africa's longest mountain range
Atlas Mountains
Enclave
Monotheism
Nationalism
24. Deserts
Egypt
Desalination
kums
Sheikhdoms
25. A belief in the right of an ethnic group to have its own independent country
Geometric Boundaries
Nationalism
Pastoralism
Domesticate
26. Belief in one God
Mesopotamia
Monotheism
Culture Hearths
Landlocked
27. Underground layers of porous rock - grave - or sand that contain water
Prophets
Aquifers
Bedouin
Landlocked
28. Being almost or entirely surrounded by land
Mesopotamia
Landlocked
Atlas Mountains
Sahara
29. A process by which salt is removed from seawater
Hajj
Nationalism
Alluvial Soil
Desalination
30. Groups of people who move from place to place depending on the season and availability of grass for grazing and water
Crude Oil
Nomads
Egypt
Culture Hearths
31. The area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Cereals
Persian Empire
Mesopotamia
Sahara
32. During 500 B.C. - this empire extended across the region
Embargo
Persian Empire
Nomads
Cuneiform
33. Deserts
Sahara
Ibadhism
Emirs
kums
34. Messengers
Natural Boundary
Emirs
Wadis
Prophets
35. Suitable for farming
Mosque
Arable
kums
Enclave
36. Centers where cultures developed and spread outward
Culture Hearths
Sheikhdoms
Ibadhism
Egypt
37. A form of picture writing invented by the Egyptians
Shari'ah
Hieroglyphics
Wadis
Sheikhdoms
38. The largest desert in the world which covers most of North Africa
Arable
Natural Boundary
Sahara
Suez Canal
39. Economic goods
Domesticate
Commodities
kums
Oasis
40. Food grains such as barley - oats - and wheat
Atlas Mountains
Hajj
Crude Oil
Cereals
41. Afghan freedom fighters
Geometric Boundaries
Persian Empire
Bedouin
Mujahideen
42. A chemical used in fertilizers
Culture Hearths
Culture Hearths
Natural Boundary
Phosphate
43. A form of picture writing invented by the Egyptians
Sheikhdoms
Pastoralism
Hieroglyphics
Shari'ah
44. A house of worship where Muslims pray
Mosque
Sheikhdoms
Petrochemicals
Monotheism
45. Belief in one God
Cuneiform
Monotheism
Prophets
Nationalism
46. Basic urban necessities such as streets and utilities
Persian Empire
Geometric Boundaries
Infrastructure
Exclave
47. Rich soil made up of sand and mud deposited by moving water
Alluvial Soil
Oasis
Ziggurats
Domesticate
48. A form of Islam practiced in Oman
Exclave
Ibadhism
Persian Empire
Geometric Boundaries
49. The largest desert in the world which covers most of North Africa
Sahara
Ibadhism
Aquifers
Qanats
50. Princes
Commodities
Natural Boundary
Emirs
Nomads