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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To wear the other side down
Attrition
Egypt
resolve conflict
Mediterranean and Red
2. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Ten Commandments
Abu Bakar
Peninsula
Jerusalem
3. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
Executive
9
Scribes
1949
4. Where people elect representatives
Republic
Sea Routes
USA Patriot ACt
Drone
5. What are the length of congress's terms?
2 years
temperates
De Juro
Maghreb
6. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.
15
Likud Party
Isthmus
Equator
7. We now call Australia by this name.
US
UN cease-fire
Southwest Asia
Oceania
8. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Kaaba
Hajj
Babylonians
9. The scattering of Jews around the world
Revolution
Diaspora
Germany
Babylonians
10. In this year - the Balfour Declaration was made.
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Inspire
1917
Zionist
11. In 1982 - Israel invaded ____.
Monotheistic
Western Isle
Hitties
Lebanon
12. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.
Camp David Accords
Traditional
The Oslo Peace Accord
Many Gods
13. The parliament that rules Israel
Judicial
Knesset
American Troops
Capitalism
14. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
OPEC
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
British
Babylonians
15. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
5 million
Umayyad
International Trade
Battleground between Good and Evil
16. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Ten Commandments
Egypt
Gulf
17. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Desalination Plants
USA Patriot ACt
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Daylight Saving Time
18. UN stands for..
Egypt
Gabriel
Roman Catholic Church
United Nations
19. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Germany
435
Kibbutzim
Capitalism
20. The Hitties are best known for this.
Bouazizi
Iron
nonbeliever tax
Darius I
21. A person who dies for his/her beliefs
Martyr
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Shanksville
Quraysh
22. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Israel
Mustafa Kemal
Kaaba
US
23. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
1989
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Arab Culture
24. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.
GCC - Saleh
Ring of Fire
350000
Few Natural Barriers
25. Measured in degrees according to the distance north or south of the equator (being 0 degrees and the poles 90 degrees) [basically circling the globe going left to right]
Diaspora
Latitude
Indonesia
Khan
26. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Koran
Jihad
De Facto
Soviet Union
27. How old do you have to be to be a represenative?
Water
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
25
Daylight Saving Time
28. A certain group of people
Anwar Sadat
Demographic
Executive
latin
29. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
UN cease-fire
1973
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
Hejira
30. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.
Baghdad
David and Solomon
Hulagu
24 - midnight
31. There are ____ nations - dependent areas and other political regions.
pursue in self-interest
Plateau
Western and Northern
268
32. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
Iran-Iraq War
Alexander of Macedonia
24 - midnight
Southern Yemen
33. The highest point of a continent - from which the direction of river flow is determined.
2014
1948 war
Continental Divide
Muammar Gaddafi
34. The Phonecians are known as this because they spread the culture of the ancient Middle East across a wide area.
Torah
Baghdad
Carriers of Civilization
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
35. Explains the life of Jesus
Gospels
Hejira
Socialism
David Ben-Gurion
36. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
Water
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Khan
Recruiter and Propagandist
37. Israel is one of two ___ in the middle east.
reprisals
Democracies
Demand
The Oslo Peace Accord
38. Explains the life of Jesus
Saleh
8 kilometers from Sana
Gospels
Turkey and Iran
39. The law to declare something uncostitunial is what constiutional law?
Mesa
Judicial Review
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Meridian
40. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?
Pull apart and form rifts
Northern
Umayyad
Shanksville
41. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?
Few Natural Barriers
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Many Gods
1948 war
42. Hatred and fear of Jews
US
anti-Semitism
Department of Homeland Security
Yahweh
43. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Lebanon
Ziggurat
Mesa
44. A 1 -800 mile thick region of hot mineral matter
20 provinces
Arab
Mantle
OPEC
45. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
Jerusalem
41 - 25
Persian And Byzantine
Arab Culture
46. The year the mongols came to power.
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Lebanon
1258
Prime Meridian
47. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Desalination Plants
1000
Saladin
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
48. What's the representatives' jobs?
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49. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
Cracks in the Mantle
Sovereign
Meridian
Tyranny
50. The architect for the Suez Canal
Glacier
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Martyrs