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World Cultures Basics
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1. The continents slowly moving across the melted rock is called
Continental drift
Monarchy
350 million
11
2. ___ planes bombed city attacks.
Money and Security
Kibbutzim
Judicial
Government
3. An Albanian soldier who had fought against the French - who became governor of Egypt in 1805.
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Equator
plates
Muhammad Ali
4. How many people get most of the wealth?
Islam
Maghreb
20%
May 2011
5. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.
Young Turks
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
Inspire
6. Instead of 1 - a small group
Every Even Year
Popular Sovereignty
Germany
Oligarchy
7. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
Parallels
PLO
Canyon
Ottoman Empire
8. In this year - the 6 day war was fought with 6 countries.
1967
55% - 45%
Menorah
15
9. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Theodor Herzl
Monotheistic
Intifada
plates
10. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.
Ottoman Empire
Glacier
Few Natural Barriers
Mustafa Kemal
11. Hatred to Jews
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
1/3
Mumbai
Anti-Semitism
12. What year did the Jews revolt against roman rule?
24
Mujahideen
Theodor Herzl
A.D. 70
13. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
equilibrium price
Minaret
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
South Tower
14. Flight 11 hit where?
Shiites
Lebanon
North Tower
Arab Spring
15. OPEC
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Peninsula
Marbury v. Madison
16. The height of the land above sea level
Sail and Plow
Elevation
Messiah
Oceania
17. Where the supreme power is maintained by the people
Sunni
Peninsula
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Democracy
18. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.
350 million
North into South
Ring of Fire
Al Qaeda Central
19. Al qaeda was formed by..
Khadija
Baghdad
Bin Laden
Baghdad
20. The culture that blends Greek with the Middle East.
80%
The Great Compromise
Plateau
Hellenistic
21. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
Ali
Steel doors
Northern
Five Pillars of Islam
22. One anointed by God
Sinai Peninsula
Republic
Mongols
Messiah
23. Would give palestines self-rule - and uproot Jewish settlements and withdraw Israeli troops from occupied lands.
Priests
1848
15
Palestine Autonomy Plan
24. A part of an ocean or sea that is partially enclosed by a curving coastline. A more fully enclosed body of salt water could be called a sea.
Gulf
24 - midnight
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Socialism
25. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
1973
1095
Constantine
Villages
26. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.
Ottoman Empire
Scarcity
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Anti-Semitism
27. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
Oslo Accords
Labor Party
1095
Babylonians
28. Became Israel's prime minister after Yitzhak Rabin got shot.
Kibbutzim
Equator
Fjord
Shimon Peres
29. Grievences of the middle east
Revolution
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Diaspora
Monarchy
30. Helps protect us from terror
1917
Department of Homeland Security
Refugees
Polytheistic
31. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
1.2 billion
Desalination Plants
Iranian Plateau
1 - General Assembly
32. In the six day war - Israel got what 2 lands from Egypt?
Self Immolation
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Gulf
Diaspora
33. To set oneself' on fire
City of the Prophet
Mujahideen
Self Immolation
24 - midnight
34. How many representatives are there?
435
Atoll
Sana - Taiz and Aden
US - Russia - UK - France - China
35. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?
New York City
Palestine Liberation Organization
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Limited Government
36. How can congress check the president?
The Oslo Peace Accord
Impeach+Override Veto
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Caliph
37. Headquarters for al qaeda is in....
Inspire
1848
Flood Waters
Khartoum - Sudan
38. Capital for the Mongols
May 2011
Baghdad
1949
19
39. The first world leader to recognize Israel as an independent nation.
Water
October 1884
Latitude
Harry Truman
40. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
Minaret
Anti-Semitism
Jews and Arabs
David and Solomon
41. What is approx number of people in Israel?
5 million
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Brookland Bridge
Factors of Production
42. Where is the mid-atlantic ridge located?
Oslo Accords
Ziggurat
11
In the atlantic - near iceland
43. Helps protect us from terror
Department of Homeland Security
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Northern
Mecca
44. The crusadess had a limited effect on the Middle East because the civilization of ___ _____ was less advanced than that of the ______.
Islam
Western Europe - Islamic
Few Natural Barriers
Jews and Arabs
45. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
anti-Semitism
Arab
Cult of Personality
Britain - UN
46. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
1947
Revolution
Ziggurat
Persian And Byzantine
47. Muhammad died in this year.
632
Mixed Economic
8
PLO
48. The King that Zoraster told about the forces of good/evil
King Vishtaspa
Mujahideen
Cult of Personality
Ring of Fire
49. Short stories with simple lessons
Judaism
Constantine
Parables
1917
50. What are the senate's job?
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