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- 3. What religion is the most popular in India today?
- 5. important holidays in Islam
- 8. place of worship in Buddhism
- 9. Power is held by a small group of people, normally taken by force or military invasion (called a junta in that case): China has this type of government due to the Chinese Communist Party
- 11. Founder of Judaism
- 12. Monotheism is the worship of one god, and polytheism is the worship of many gods
- 17. place of worship in Sikhism
- 18. Founder of Christianity
- 19. The state of enlightenment for Buddhists, the end of suffering
- 20. per capita The total GDP of a country divided by its total population
- 21. The writing system used in ancient Mesopotamia
- 22. place of worship in Hinduism
- 24. The river in which ancient Egypt was centered around.
- 25. the government is controlled or run by religious ideology: Saudi Arabia has this type of government (along with absolute monarchy)
- 30. the absence of government, normally happens after the overthrow of a government: no country has anarchy
- 31. (organization) (top) Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, Untouchables (bottom)
- 32. 5 K's in Sikhism
- 34. Founder of Islam
- 35. Place of worship in Islam
- 37. the people in a country vote DIRECTLY on issues: Switzerland has this type of government
- 38. power is held primarily by the people & representatives for the people, the king/queen is a figurehead and doesn't have a real role in the country's government: The United Kingdom has this type of government
- 43. distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees
- 44. important holidays in Christianity
- 45. the location of something in relation to other places
- 46. four great inventions of ancient China
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- 1. a set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life in ancient Mesopotamia
- 2. In ancient Egypt, when someone died their body would be prepared for burial and wrapped in linen and placed in a tomb to be preserved for the journey to the afterlife
- 4. a temple from ancient Mesopotamia
- 6. important holidays in Judaism
- 7. technology of leading water from a river to farmland so that crops can be watered
- 10. the exact position of a place on Earth using latitude and longitude coordinates
- 13. A ruler of ancient Egypt
- 14. An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds
- 15. The people vote for someone to REPRESENT them & their interests at a state or national level: The United States has this type of government
- 16. order of founding of the western (Abrahamic) religions
- 23. the government is run by ONE person with full control over all: Saudi Arabia has this type of government (along with Theocracy)
- 26. Place of worship in Christianity
- 27. the power is held by ONE person, usually by force & violence, normally the citizens suffer through a lack of human rights: North Korea has this type of government
- 28. Two major river systems of China where the first civilizations in China were centered around
- 29. Economic decisions are made by individuals or the open market, the type of economy the United States has
- 33. Gross Domestic Product- the total value of all goods and services produced in a year in an country
- 36. Place of worship in Judaism
- 39. A series of rulers from the same family
- 40. Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees
- 41. the effects that good or bad actions have on a person's soul
- 42. the known language used later in the Indus River Valley civilization (ancient India)