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Cappadocia Vocabulary
Formation: structure
Columns: pillars
Invade: enter and take over
Survive: endure, live through
Boulder: large rocks

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Rooms in the Underground City of Cappadocia Image
The underground cities had everything needed to live, including pipes for fresh air, toilets, rooms to store food and wine and even places to keep animals.
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A video trip to Cappadocia, a rocky landscape created by 3 volcanoes.

Cappadocia Q&A
Question: How long have people lived here?

Answer: The Hittites first settled here about 3,800 years ago.

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Question: When did people build the underground cities?

Answer: Early Christians began building the cities 400 years after Christ’s death because the Romans persecuted them.



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Victoria Falls – The World’s Largest Waterfall
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In Africa, on the borders of Zimbabwe and Zambia, sits the world’s largest waterfall, Victoria Falls. It is 1 mile wide and 360 feet high.
In Africa, on the borders of Zimbabwe and Zambia, sits the world’s largest waterfall, Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls was named by a Scottish missionary and explorer, Dr. David Livingstone for Queen Victoria, the queen of England at the time. It is 1 mile wide and 360 feet high.

The Zambezi River is the fourth largest river in Africa, running over 1,600 miles from its source to the sea. Along the way, it passes through the countries of Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Between the borders of Zimbabwe and Zambia, the river plunges more than 350 feet. Here is Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall in the world.

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In Africa, on the borders of Zimbabwe and Zambia, sits the world’s largest waterfall, Victoria Falls. It is 1 mile wide and 360 feet high.
When you visit Victoria Falls, you’ll see a lot of mist rising from the falls. The falls are also called Mosi-oa-Tunya, which means “smoke that thunders.” Victoria Falls is protected by two national forests. Lots of wildlife lives near the falls, including elephants and hippos.

During the rainy season, 300,000 gallons of water pour over the falls every second. During this season, spray from the falls shoots over 1,000 feet in the air. The surrounding rain forest experiences constant rainfall from the spray.

Neolithic pottery and tools found in Cappadocia attest to an early human presence in the region. Excavations at the modern town of Kültepe have uncovered the remains of the Hittite-Assyrian city of Kanesh, dating from the 3rd millennium BCE. The tens of thousands of clay tablets recovered from the remains of an Assyrian merchant colony at Kanesh are among the oldest written documents discovered in Turkey.

Cappadocia, ancient district in east-central Anatolia, situated on the rugged plateau north of the Ta**us Mountains, in the centre of present-day Turkey. The boundaries of the region have varied throughout history. Cappadocia’s landscape includes dramatic expanses of soft volcanic rock, shaped by erosion into towers, cones, valleys, and caves. Rock-cut churches and underground tunnel complexes from the Byzantine and Islamic eras are scattered throughout the countryside.

Cappadocia, ancient district in east-central Anatolia, situated on the rugged plateau north of the Ta**us Mountains