SW Asia Review

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  1. 2. This famous Babylonian king created one of the first known written codes of laws.
  2. 5. What is the capital city of Iran today?
  3. 7. What word means to keep animals as a source of labor and/or food?
  4. 12. This key resource in Arabia, an unrefined kind of oil, develops from tiny animals and plants that died millions of years ago.
  5. 13. The land between rivers is a(n) __________ plain.
  6. 15. The area surrounding and extending from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known as the...
  7. 16. These underground tunnels were built about 2,500 years ago on the Iranian Plateau to carry mountain waters to dry plains.
  8. 18. A center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread is called a cultural _______.
  9. 22. The longest river in SW Asia is the...
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  1. 1. What do we call the written language system developed by the ancient Sumerians?
  2. 3. What is the capital city of Iraq today?
  3. 4. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into what body of water?
  4. 6. Sea The Arabian Peninsula is bordered to the west by what body of water?
  5. 8. These mountains in southern Iran were formed by the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates sliding into each other.
  6. 9. What do we call the process of redirecting water to crops using channels and ditches?
  7. 10. This is a fracture in Earth's crust which often causes earthquakes.
  8. 11. This kind of resource cannot reproduce quickly enough to keep pace with its use.
  9. 14. These fine particles of soil are regularly deposited by the flooding of rivers.
  10. 17. A center of civilization from which ideas and technology spread is called a cultural _______.
  11. 19. al Khali What desert covers 250,000 square miles of southern Saudi Arabia?
  12. 20. states The first cities in Mesopotamia formed independent political units called...
  13. 21. What do we call fertile places in dry areas where water is found?