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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Where was Muhammad born?
Stylus
Mecca
Many Gods
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
2. By this year - Palestinians in the occupied lands had grown frustrated by years of Israeli military rule.
1987
Bedouins
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
10
3. Factors 'on the ground'
Volcano
De Facto
Lagoon
Meridian
4. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.
Refugees - oil
1848
Democratic Republic
Persian And Byzantine
5. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
Hejira
632
6
The Western Wall
6. Congress is apart of what location of power?
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
6
Ziggurat
Legislative
7. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Ungoverned
Longitude
Bouazizi
8. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
75
6
Weightless Economy
USA
9. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Egypt - Suez Canal
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
10. ___ forces have cracked down violently on the protests against the president of yemen.
Security
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Anwar Sadat
Pope
11. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
200 million years
Kaaba
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Government
12. Grievences of the middle east
Western Isle
Taxes
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
2014
13. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
1993
Intifada
Kaaba
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
14. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
USA Patriot ACt
Arab
Priests
Likud Party
15. What was the name of the tax that jews+christians had to pay? (A big reason why they converted to Islam)
Popular Sovereignty
nonbeliever tax
Darius I
SAudia Arabi
16. Muhammad's wife - who inspired him to begin telling people about Islam.
Khadija
Shimon Peres
Constantinople
Benjamin Netanyahu
17. Israel is about the size of what state?
Cell
New Jersey
Iron
1978
18. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Equator
Coinage
Sueing
Carriers of Civilization
19. Flight 11 hit where?
6
federalism
North Tower
Scribes
20. The UN's purpose was to...
2 billion
Cape
Torah
resolve conflict
21. Why is the arabian peninsula so important?
Sovereign
Millet
Oil
5
22. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Wheel
Southern Yemen
May 15 - 1948
164
23. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
Jerusalem
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Irrigation Systems
Stylus
24. A small body of water separated from the larger sea by a barrier of sand or coral reefs. It can either be adjacent to coastline or surrounded by an atoll.
Lagoon
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Drone
Ziggurat
25. When and where did Arab Spring start?
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Aristocracy
Arab Culture
Khadija
26. The 4 planes hit the ___ - _____ - and ____.
A.D. 70
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
1964
27. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
Mixed Economy Systems
SAudia Arabi
Quraysh
Britain - UN
28. A certain group of people
Demographic
North into South
Traditional
Water
29. The new leaders of Al Qaeda went for _____.
1964
1978
PLO
Attrition
30. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Prime Meridian
Western and Northern
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Recitation
31. In 1956 - Israel - Britain - and France attacked __ after it's prime minister nationalized the ________.
Egypt - Suez Canal
1 - General Assembly
Oceania
Egypt
32. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
Fjord
Western and Northern
Obama - Panetta
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
33. This church was centered in Constantinople.
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Eastern Orthodox Church
Prime Meridian
34. 3.5 radicals - operate missions.
Cell
anti-Semitism
Russia
1096
35. When are federal elections held?
Russia
A.D. 70
1187
Every Even Year
36. The leader of the Likud bloc that became the prime minister in 1996.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Lifetime
Ten Commandments
Muhammad
37. Capital for the Abbasids
resolve conflict
All-Powerful
Jerusalem
Baghdad
38. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
Flood Waters
1.2 billion
Britain
Soviet Union
39. Factors of Law
Delta
Money and Security
Zendavesta
De Juro
40. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.
Aristocracy
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Isthmus
Impeach+Override Veto
41. These people in the sumerian civilization were important because they knew the prayers to keep the gods happy.
Priests
Iran-Iraq War
American Troops
Cape
42. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
Irrigation Systems
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Judaism
Veto
43. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.
Seljuks
Anti-Semitism
David and Solomon
24
44. The capital of Israel
Jerusalem
Ali
18%
Cuneiform
45. The court is a part of what location of power?
Weightless Economy
Revolution
Judicial
Latitude
46. An ocean inlet that merges with the mouth of a river - varies according to river flow and ocean tides.
Greenwich - England
Water
Traditional
Estuary
47. OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Shanksville
AQAP
Strait
48. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
Recruiter and Propagandist
Hellenistic
Cell
75
49. This man took over before Saleh re-returned.
9
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
2 years
Caliph
50. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
Few Natural Barriers
Roman Catholic Church
SAudia Arabi
Shiites