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World Cultures Basics
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1. In March 2002 - Israeli military forces invaded Palestinian-ruled areas of the ____ ____.
Persian And Byzantine
West Bank
18%
Iran-Iraq War
2. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.
Revolution
Ocean Currents
Clay Tablets
Zendavesta
3. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
1 year
Desert Storm
Tyranny
Greenwich - England
4. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
Ziggurat
350 million
Shimon Peres
Obama - Panetta
5. Half of a sphere
Mecca and Yathrib
Hemisphere
Cuneiform
Balfour Declaration
6. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Judaism
plates
Estuary
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
7. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
Strait
Youthquake
30
Alexander of Macedonia
8. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?
Sunni
80%
capitalism - global
Mustafa Kemal
9. In WWI - the ottoman empire sided with ____.
Iron
18%
Totalitarion
Germany
10. In January 1990 - the president of Turkey began filling the ___ reservoir with water from the Euphrates.
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
SAudia Arabi
Aturuk
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
11. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?
Greenwich - England
Indian Ocean
Judicial
Ashkenazim
12. OPEC
Kuwait
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Hitties
Demographic
13. The capital for the Ottomans
Impeach+Override Veto
Istanbul
Deserts
Monotheistic
14. Who were called during the fire?
Maghreb
NYPD
6 years
anti-Semitism
15. The four seasons of the year occur in which earth zone?
1848
temperates
Priests
Hejira
16. Father of the Church
Pope
Epic of Gilgamesh
Capture
1967
17. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
Sinai Peninsula
Obama - Panetta
Scribes
1973
18. Seven-branched candleholder
630
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Menorah
Persian And Byzantine
19. Belief in One God
Balfour Declaration
Saladin
Parallels
Monotheistic
20. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
British
Moses
Al Qaeda Central
Turkey
21. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Attrition
Pakistan and Afghanistan
30
22. What are the second - third - and fourth biggest majority ethnic groups in the middle east?
The Base
South Tower
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Refugees - oil
23. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
750
reprisals
20 provinces
capitalism - global
24. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Turkey
Drip Irrigation
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
25. In 1994 - Israel and what country signed a peace treaty?
Three Weeks
South Tower
David Ben-Gurion
Jordan
26. How deep does earth's crust go?
Kuwait
6-25 miles
Mumbai
Sinai Peninsula
27. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.
Koran
NYPD
Benjamin Netanyahu
Scarcity
28. This document said that the congress will have 2 houses - one based on Population and one based on equality.
1803
reprisals
The Great Compromise
Ramadan
29. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
pursue in self-interest
Anwar Sadat
Mandate
Volcano
30. Israel captured these lands after the 6 day war.
Zionist
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
2014
24 - midnight
31. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Equator
Shaduf
Tropic
Ferdinand de Lesseps
32. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
plates
Karl Marx
1 - General Assembly
Executive
33. To set oneself' on fire
Self Immolation
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Suq
equilibrium price
34. In this year - the 6 day war was fought with 6 countries.
1967
Lagoon
Recitation
Anwar Sadat
35. A government that seeks to subordinate the individual to the state by controlling not only all political and economic matters - but the attitudes - values - and beliefs of its population.
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Flood Waters
Totalitarion
Capitalism
36. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
Atoll
Longitude
1987
Suq
37. Capital for the Seljuk Turks
Volcano
Mumbai
Baghdad
Anatolian Plateau
38. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
Three Weeks
Ring of Fire
Five Pillars of Islam
Money and Security
39. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Bedouins
Iron
Capture
40. Under the Oslo Accords - Israel and the PLO said they would _____ ____ ___.
recognize each other
Russia
Mustafa Kemal
24 - midnight
41. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Government
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Intifada
42. Jesus was born here
Lebanon
Lagoon
Anwar Sadat
Bethlehem
43. We now call Australia by this name.
Oceania
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Mesa
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
44. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
Pope
1917
Strait
US - Russia - UK - France - China
45. By this year - Palestinians in the occupied lands had grown frustrated by years of Israeli military rule.
Brazil - Russia - India - China
1987
British
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
46. Israel Prime minister that was assasinated - and was thought to be the last chance at peace.
Umayyad
Messiah
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Yitzhak Rabin
47. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?
Palestine Liberation Organization
1453
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
City of the Prophet
48. In 1993 - hopes for peace revived when Israel and the PLO agreed to this accords.
Oslo Accords
Refugees
Hajj
Shiites
49. The law to declare something uncostitunial is what constiutional law?
Judicial Review
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Baghdad
Balfour Declaration
50. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
intifada
350 million
Turkey
1945
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