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World Cultures Basics
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1. A market economy is controlled by this.
Theodor Herzl
Pangaea
Supply and Demand
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
2. What operation added metal dectectors/pat-downs?
AQAP
A.D. 70
TSA
Quraysh
3. NATO stands for...
plates
1.2 billion
pursue in self-interest
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
4. Water spot in desert
Oasis
Monotheistic
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Yitzhak Rabin
5. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
PLO
Peninsula
7
Many Gods
6. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?
occupied territories
Adam Smith
Muhammad Ali
Indian Ocean
7. PLO was founded In what year?
Many Gods
1964
Baghdad
Brazil - Russia - India - China
8. The sumerians invented these two things.
1948
Oceania
Sail and Plow
De Facto
9. This empire expanded eastward - and by AD 115 it ruled much of the Middle East.
Welfare State
1776
Roman
King Hammurabi
10. This country really 'owns' the Euphrates.
Eastern Orthodox Church
Turkey
May 14 - 1948
14
11. How many years do you have to live in the USA to be the representative?
Judaism
1967
7
Mustafa Kemal
12. Capital for the Seljuk Turks
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Baghdad
John Marshal
intifada
13. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
British
Popular Sovereignty
15
14. How many years do you have to live in the US to be a president?
Five Pillars of Islam
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Archipelago
14
15. Where did the first civilization in the middle east originate?
The Western Wall
Globalization
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Zendavesta
16. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
1948 war
Strait
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Three Weeks
17. Muhammad's wife - who inspired him to begin telling people about Islam.
Tyranny
Khadija
Judicial Review
West Bank
18. The year the suez canal opened
11
Jesus
1869
North Tower
19. The parliament that rules Israel
Fertile Crescent
6 years
Suq
Knesset
20. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Western Isle
South Tower
70%
Lebanon
21. OPEC stopped sending the US oil during this war.
Kuwait
Crusade
Britain - UN
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
22. What is yemen scarce on?
1/5
Water
Sail and Plow
Demand
23. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
Maghreb
Clay Tablets
Iranian Plateau
Ferdinand de Lesseps
24. The two leading towns in the Arabian Penninsula at the time of Muhammad
Mecca and Yathrib
Bedouins
Yom Kippur
Wheel
25. Arab nations attacked on this day in the 1973 war.
Iron
Yom Kippur
Yassir Arafat
1 - General Assembly
26. Tallest Mountains in the World
HImalayas
200 million years
8
Balfour Declaration
27. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?
1964
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Gulf
Umayyad
28. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
plates
Europe and Asia
Sea Routes
Israel
29. Became Israel's prime minister after Yitzhak Rabin got shot.
Crusade
desert
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Shimon Peres
30. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.
Inspire
1/3
pursue in self-interest
Ocean Currents
31. What are the senate's job?
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32. One anointed by God
Harry Truman
Messiah
Parables
Turkey
33. Where the people overthrow the government in power and form a new one
Water
1187
Sinai Peninsula
Revolution
34. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
Babylonians
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
6 years
164
35. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)
Britain
Sea Routes
Archipelago
Reef
36. Half of a sphere
Hemisphere
Mixed Economic
Cape
equilibrium price
37. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
May 14 - 1948
Pope
Atoll
Ramadan
38. Factors of Law
24
De Juro
Constantine
360
39. Flight 93 hit where?
Shanksville
United - Beliefs
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Equator
40. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Desalination Plants
Baghdad
Khan
Yitzhak Rabin
41. Headquarters for al qaeda is in....
Shanksville
Recruiter and Propagandist
Europe and Asia
Khartoum - Sudan
42. A market economy is controlled by this.
Jihad
Clay Tablets
Self Immolation
Supply and Demand
43. The most famous leader of the PLO
Yom Kippur
Knesset
Turkey and Iran
Yassir Arafat
44. We now call Australia by this name.
Oceania
Hellenistic
OPEC
Iran-Iraq War
45. In which two hemispheres is Australia located?
Democracy
Cancer
Millet
Eastern and Southern
46. Out of the security council members on the uN - how many are permanent?
Soviet Union
19
Karl Marx
5
47. These people in the sumerian civilization were important because they knew the prayers to keep the gods happy.
20%
Fertile Crescent
Byzantine
Priests
48. The middle east stands at the crossroads of what of three continents?
Labor Party
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Many Gods
Leon Panetta
49. In this year - Camp David Accords were signed.
1978
Pangaea
Villages
Saleh
50. In this year - Camp David Accords were signed.
1978
1258
Pangaea
Five Pillars of Islam