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What is the official name for the Middle East?
Southwest Asia
Who gave the Middle East its name?
Europe
What country is actually part of the middle east but doesn't seem like it?
Turkey
Southwest Asia ends before what country?
Egypt
What is the climate like in the Middle East?
dry and hot
Gallons of ____ are more expensive than gallons of oil in the Middle East
water
What factor could turn the Middle East around like it did in Israel?
immigration
How much of US oil comes from Saudi Arabia?
25%
how much of US oil comes from outside the US?
50%
How much of Europe's oil comes from the Middle East?
80%
the Middle East has some of the oldest and greatest what?
civilizations
What are the different ideas of where civilization began?
Mesopotamia, betweent the Tigris and Euphrates
Egyptian Nile Delta
Chinese Yhang Zhon River Valley
Indian Indus River Valley
What was the first known Middle Eastern writing?
Sumerian cuneform
What is another name for the Neo-Babylonians?
Chaldeans
What was the first emperor of the Babylonians equivalent to?
The first emperor of the Middle East
What were the Babylonians skilled in?
math
astronomy
astrology
What what the Assyrian capital?
Ninevah
Where did Iraq and Syria start?
Chaldeans>Neo-Babylonians>Nebuchadnezzar
What was Babylon famous for?
hanging gardens of Babylon
What people did Turkey start with?
Hittites
What were the Hittites skilled in?
Iron-making
chariots in warfare
the iron axle
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10/26/11 Africa notes
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notes on Africa and the Middle East from 10/26/11
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10/31/2011, 7:24:07 PM
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