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World Cultures Basics
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1. What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
Ramadan
Kuwait
Oasis
Shimon Peres
2. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
25
British
Martyrs
David Ben-Gurion
3. The USA should care because until peace is achieved - the USA is appeared _______.
UN cease-fire
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Monarchy
Biased
4. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
Palestine Liberation Organization
Anointed
Flood Waters
268
5. Israel captured these lands after the 6 day war.
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Three Weeks
intifada
1917
6. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
Demographic
700 people
International Meridian Conference
Delta
7. What are the 5 main physical regions of the Middle East? (alphabetical)
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Oasis
Knesset
Ali
8. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
1803
Kaaba
Ottoman Empire
Britain - UN
9. Muslim Fighter
Mixed Economic
Mujahideen
Istanbul
Ziggurat
10. The tower outside the mosque to call people to prayer.
Polytheistic
Land between the rivers
Minaret
1967
11. How can congress check the president?
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Impeach+Override Veto
Ahura Mazda
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
12. How many muslims are their worldwide?
GCC - Saleh
Ring of Fire
1.2 billion
Palestine Liberation Organization
13. Another word to call Longitude
United Nations
Shiites
Meridian
Anarchy
14. Hatred to Jews
Priests
Anti-Semitism
Khan
Kaaba
15. These people in the sumerian civilization were important because they knew the prayers to keep the gods happy.
Priests
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Inspire
Jerusalem
16. The sumerians set up this based on the number __.
Measurment - 60
1187
1776
intifada
17. Only occurs in the dictatorial government - when the dictator uses propaganda to make him look like he's 'super human'. E.G: Hitler - Stalin
Cult of Personality
Delta
World Trade Centers
West Bank
18. This flourished under Roman rule.
Anarchy
Trade
Scarcity
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
19. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
Hemisphere
1/3
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Attrition
20. The parliament that rules Israel
Knesset
Executive
New York City
Lebanon
21. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
King Hammurabi
Judicial Review
15
East Jerusalem
22. According to Zoraster - the forces of good were led by this person.
Egypt
Saleh
desert
Ahura Mazda
23. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
Gulf
1/5
1917
TSA
24. What are the length of congress's terms?
2 years
reprisals
Ramadan
Jerusalem
25. The first war Israel fought - the day after it was created. Egypt - Jordan - Syria - Iraq - and lebanon are the countries that fought against israel.
Six Million
1948 war
1/5
Shanksville
26. The Main idea in a civilization
Yassir Arafat
Written Language
1947
Martyrs
27. According to Zoraster - the forces of good were led by this person.
Socialism
Ahura Mazda
Latitude
Sumer
28. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
Scarcity
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Caliph
Iranian Plateau
29. The capital for the Umayyads
Shimon Peres
Mumbai
2014
Damascus
30. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
Money and Security
UN cease-fire
US
Babylonians
31. Instead of 1 - a small group
Oligarchy
Caliph
Judicial Review
North into South
32. The height of the land above sea level
Maghreb
International Trade
Indonesia
Elevation
33. In January 1990 - the president of Turkey began filling the ___ reservoir with water from the Euphrates.
24
Aturuk
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Water
34. The Hitties are best known for this.
Menorah
Iron
Kuwait
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
35. Father of the Church
Pope
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
20 provinces
6 years
36. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
350 million
capitalism - global
57 million square miles
Shaking
37. Where did the first civilization in the middle east originate?
750
HImalayas
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
bankrupt
38. How many years do you have to live in the USA to be the representative?
Kibbutzim
1/3
7
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
39. Which two hemispheres is the United States located?
Monarchy
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
May 2011
Western and Northern
40. Each country gets _ vote in the ______ _____.
bankrupt
Balfour Declaration
1 - General Assembly
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
41. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?
Arab
De Facto
14
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
42. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
Shanksville
Ungoverned
SAudia Arabi
Baghdad
43. Belief in One God
Monotheistic
5 million
occupied territories
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
44. The Abbassid empire built these.
Western and Northern
Fjord
Muhammad Ali
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
45. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
6
Israel
Southwest Asia
Peninsula
46. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
Theodor Herzl
Egypt
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
1 year
47. 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.
2 years
350 million
Southwest Asia
Gulf
48. What was Karl Marx's famous quote?
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49. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
King Hammurabi
18
Jews and Arabs
Oligarchy
50. What are the 6 constituional laws?
Judicial Review
Carriers of Civilization
Alphabet
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism