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World Cultures Basics
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1. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
Oceania
Five Pillars of Islam
Lifetime
Plateau
2. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?
6 months
Africa - Asia - and Europe
1989
Many Gods
3. Landforms with highest elevation
USA Patriot ACt
Mountains
Biased
Pope
4. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?
80%
Epic of Gilgamesh
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Taxes
5. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.
nonbeliever tax
Roman
Quraysh
Epic of Gilgamesh
6. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
Constantine
Oslo Accords
Khadija
1/5
7. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?
Babylonians
2014
All-Powerful
Anatolian
8. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
1453
Latitude
Jews and Arabs
Taxes
9. Baghdad literally means this.
De Facto
Weightless Economy
9
God-given
10. A river of ice - moving slowly down a mountain slope or outward from its central mass. It stops where the leading edge melts faster than the forward rate of movement.
Anointed
Desert Storm
King Hammurabi
Glacier
11. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
20%
Pangaea
NYPD
1/5
12. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Theodor Herzl
Anointed
Western Europe - Islamic
Canaan
13. In what year will the bric economies nomines become the largest producers of goods?
2014
Measurment - 60
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
Popular Sovereignty
14. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
UN cease-fire
In the atlantic - near iceland
Kibbutzim
Intifada
15. To set oneself' on fire
Sueing
Jordan and Egypt
Self Immolation
Desalination Plants
16. A tall - flat-topped mountain with steep vertical sides. Erosion-resistant ones are left standing after all else has gone.
Attrition
Mesa
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
1 - General Assembly
17. Who explained why there was evidence of glacial formation in tropical Africa and why the opposing coastlines of South America and Africa look as if they could fit together?
Limited Government
Alfred Wegener
Gulf
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
18. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.
Masada
Shiites
Department of Homeland Security
Martyrs
19. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Knesset
Kibbutzim
Money and Security
Bouazizi
20. The sumerians invented these two things.
Lifetime
Bin Laden
Sail and Plow
Mumbai
21. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?
The Base
22
Gulf
reprisals
22. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
70%
Wheel
Reef
Pope
23. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?
Jihad
Few Natural Barriers
Daylight Saving Time
Elevation
24. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
US
1 - General Assembly
750
Seljuks
25. Where is the mid-atlantic ridge located?
Oceania
Bethlehem
In the atlantic - near iceland
1947
26. A broad expanse of generally high and flat land - also called a tableland. They can rise up from a lower area - or can be level regions within a mountain range.
reprisals
Roman
Plateau
1803
27. How many justices are there?
World Trade Centers
9
Inspire
Government
28. Uprising of Palestines
Supply
Delta
1453
intifada
29. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.
Yassir Arafat
Monotheistic
Reef
May 15 - 1948
30. Muhammad's wife - who inspired him to begin telling people about Islam.
Estuary
Khadija
Judicial
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
31. The main principle of Hammurabi's code
Yahweh
Yitzhak Rabin
Gaza Strip and West Bank
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
32. The month that all muslims must fast
Popular Sovereignty
Ramadan
Department of Homeland Security
15
33. The movement of Jews to re-establish a home in Palestine
Zionism
Umayyad
Russia
15
34. Measured in degrees according to the distance north or south of the equator (being 0 degrees and the poles 90 degrees) [basically circling the globe going left to right]
anti-Semitism
Latitude
Umayyad
Mountains
35. In the west of the Northern Tier is the ___ ___.
Nomads
Desalination Plants
Anatolian Plateau
1258
36. Father of the Church
Al Qaeda Central
Pope
Russia
Western Isle
37. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
Mongols
Obama - Panetta
Israel
1993
38. The hebrews called their god this.
164
Yahweh
Mesa
Indonesia
39. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Government
Intifada
Weightless Economy
4 years
40. How much one buisiness/company has
1945
Continents
Supply
Drone
41. The month that all muslims must fast
Ramadan
Refugees - oil
Germany
Canyon
42. Who was also killed along with Al Awlaki?
Khan
nonbeliever tax
Judicial Review
Archipelago
43. Out of the security council members on the uN - how many are permanent?
Bouazizi
Five Pillars of Islam
Four
5
44. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring
Bouazizi
Fjord
1.2 billion
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
45. Non-muslim community
Republic
1948 war
Millet
Legislative
46. The most famous leader of the PLO
Written Language
Preemptive Strike
De Juro
Yassir Arafat
47. Allows to tap on phones
Peninsula
11
Baghdad
USA Patriot ACt
48. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.
1978
PLO
Capture
Biased
49. The year the ottomans came to power.
1453
Islam
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Kibbutzim
50. PLO
Scarcity
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Land between the rivers
Palestine Liberation Organization