Geography - 2nd Nine Weeks Study Guide

	1.	In Belgium, tensions sometimes arise between the ____.

	2.	The Benelux countries are ____.

	3.	During czarist Russia, serfs ____.

	4.	Russia is spread across the continents of ____.

	5.	The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the ____.

	6.	The world’s first known story is ____.

	7.	Istanbul was once called ____.

	8.	The first Russian civilization is known as ____.

	9.	Istanbul is the only city in the world located on two ____.

	10.	The Chunnel passes beneath ____.

	11.	Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg joined together to form ____.

	12.	The Sumerians used clay tablets to record a form of writing called ____.

	13.	What body of water in Southwest Asia is the saltiest and lowest in the world?

	14.	The flow of water in the Nile River has been controlled by the ____.

	15.	The center of Egyptian life was ____.

	16.	Saudi Arabia is the largest country in ____.

	17.	The inventor of movable type was ____.

	18.	Alexander the Great conquered and spread the culture of ____.

	19.	Muslims must fulfill the obligations called the ____.

	20.	Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under ____.

	21.	The period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus was the ____.

	22.	Judaism was first practiced by a small group of people called ____.

	23.	The Quran contains revelations made to the prophet ____.

	24.	Iraq’s economy is based on ____.

	25.	This Czar-Liberator freed the serfs in 1861.

	26.	The leader responsible for the Holocaust was ____.

	27.	The Hindu Kush cover most of ____.

	28.	What nation of Southwest Asia has land in both Asia and Europe?

	29.	The second-largest group of people in Iraq are ____.

	30.	The pope lives and works in ____.

	31.	What city in Italy has no cars, but instead relies on boats for transportation on its many canals?

	32.	The idea that kings and queens ruled by the will of God was called the ____.

	33.	A philosopher who believed that government should serve and protect the people and their freedom was ____.

	34.	What was the World War II alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan called?

	35.	Muslims call God ____.

	36.	The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as ____.

	37.	The dictator of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s until after World War II was ____.

	38.	In the Jewish faith, the Day of Atonement is ____.

	39.	The euro is the currency of ____.

	40.	World War II came to an end when ____.

	41.	The first known people to live in North Africa were the ____.

	42.	The mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was painted by ____.

	43.	In the late 1400s, Ivan III made Muscovy stronger when he drove out the ____.

	44.	Renaissance writers reached a wider audience by writing in ____.

	45.	The holiest day in Judaism is ____.

	46.	According to Christians, the messiah is ____.

	47.	The word Sahara means ____.

	48.	The most important Christian holy day is ____.

	49.	Julius Caesar was killed by ____.

	50.	The four regions of the United Kingdom are England, Scotland, ____.