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21 Cards in this Set
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Bazaar |
Local market place in North Africa and Southwest Asia |
Fruits and vegetables |
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Mosque |
Islamic house of worship |
Muslim church |
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Irrigation |
Process of collecting water and distrubing it to crops |
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Hajj |
Pilgrimage to Muslims holy city of Makkah, the completion of Wich at least once in a lifetime is one of the five pillars of Islam |
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Caliphs |
Successor to Muhammed |
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Covenant |
Agreement |
Yes no maybe |
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Pharaoh |
Name for power full ruler in Egypt |
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Cuneiform |
Form of writing from ancient Mesopotamia that consist of wedge-shaped markings pressed into clay tablets |
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Polytheism |
Belief in more than one god |
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Calligraphy |
Art of beautiful writing |
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City-state |
Independent political unit that includes a city and the sorrunding area |
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Thearocy |
Form of government in which the leader claims to rule on behalf of a good |
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Epic |
Tales or poem about heroes or heroines |
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Hieroglyphics |
System of writing that uses small pics to represent sounds or words |
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Monotheism |
Belief of one god |
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Saints |
Christan holy person |
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Terrorism |
Violence used against the peaple or government in the hopes of winning political goals |
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Prophet |
Messenger of God |
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Dietary laws |
Laws that in a certain religions that detail which foods peaple can and cannot eat and how food should be prepared and handled |
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Mesopotamia |
Located in present day Iraq |
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Islam |
Muhammad- was a merchant |
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