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World Cultures Basics
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1. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
200 million years
2 billion
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Persian And Byzantine
2. What is the length of the supreme court's rule?
Revolution
Lifetime
PLO
1 - General Assembly
3. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.
Diaspora
Scarcity
Egypt
Khadija
4. Factors of Law
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
De Juro
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
The Oslo Peace Accord
5. How old do you have to be to be the president?
King Hammurabi
Hejira
Golan Heights
35
6. The month that all muslims must fast
Epic of Gilgamesh
Good and Evil
Ramadan
69
7. The year the suez canal opened
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Martyrs
1 year
1869
8. The year of the first crusade.
1096
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
15
Clay Tablets
9. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.
Western Europe - Islamic
Irrigation Systems
4 years
Labor Party
10. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?
Demand
1948 war
9 years
Northern
11. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Measurment - 60
18%
Egypt
12. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.
350000
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Shiites
NSA - CIA
13. Grievences of the middle east
Balfour Declaration
May 14 - 1948
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Mountains
14. The year the mongols came to power.
Ziggurat
1258
Yitzhak Rabin
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
15. A river of ice - moving slowly down a mountain slope or outward from its central mass. It stops where the leading edge melts faster than the forward rate of movement.
Glacier
Taxes
Hitties
Sovereign
16. How much is a majority on the UN?
Jerusalem
Villages
9
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
17. What are the 6 constituional laws?
Muhammad
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Baghdad
Mixed Economy Systems
18. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
Pentagon
Arab
750
Roman
19. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
6
Five Pillars of Islam
Glacier
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
20. In this year - Camp David Accords were signed.
Mongols
Muhammad
Mantle
1978
21. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.
55% - 45%
Camp David Accords
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
Oslo Accords
22. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Intifada
Shaduf
Byzantine
De Facto
23. Every continent but which two are surrounded by water?
Europe and Asia
King Vishtaspa
Drone
Diaspora
24. Half of a sphere
Prime Meridian
Self Immolation
Pangaea
Hemisphere
25. What year was Marbury v. Madison
18
1869
1803
Anwar Sadat
26. Known as 'The Prophet'
Mixed Economy Systems
Muhammad
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
1 - General Assembly
27. Belived that any devout Muslim could become a caliph.
Yemen
Baghdad
Muhammad
Sunni
28. What year did the Jews revolt against roman rule?
Ziggurat
Umayyad
A.D. 70
1096
29. One anointed by God
Messiah
Welfare State
Dictatorship
1973
30. The UN was founded in....
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
22
Muhammad Ali
1945
31. America has been more strict - such as adding ___ ___ leading into the cockpit.
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Steel doors
Diaspora
Head Waters
32. Who was also killed along with Al Awlaki?
Khan
Pope
Intifada
Police
33. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
Bethlehem
Yitzhak Rabin
Preemptive Strike
Communism
34. The dividing lines between the eastern and western hemisphere
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Constantine
Mixed Economy Systems
Russia
35. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Ahura Mazda
Jihad
36. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?
Al Qaeda Central
Arab Culture
Sueing
1000
37. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
25
Judicial
Cracks in the Mantle
8
38. A narrow - winding ocean inlet that penetrates a coastal mountain range. The steep cliffs that line its route make it one of nature's grandest sights.
Archipelago
Fjord
recognize each other
1945
39. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Shimon Peres
Continental drift
55% - 45%
40. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
In the atlantic - near iceland
Strait
Battleground between Good and Evil
North Tower
41. Helped the jews escape from egypt
Oceania
East Jerusalem
Jihad
Moses
42. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.
Judaism
Island
Shanksville
Theodor Herzl
43. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Quraysh
Shiites
8 kilometers from Sana
Baghdad
44. How old do you have to be to be a represenative?
Britain
2 billion
1 - General Assembly
25
45. The emperor of the large Persian empire in about 500 B.C.
Mosque
Darius I
Northern
Bouazizi
46. Most people in the middle eeast lived in small ___.
Western Isle
Western Europe - Islamic
North Tower
Villages
47. Instead of 1 - a small group
Democracy
1848
Oligarchy
Recitation
48. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
Britain - UN
Satrap
Monotheistic
Eastern and Southern
49. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.
Southwest Asia
6
Shiites
World Trade Centers
50. PLO
Indian Ocean
Quraysh
Palestine Liberation Organization
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
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