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World Cultures Basics
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1. AQ wants the west to go ___
Bouazizi
bankrupt
Arab
anti-Semitism
2. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
Mantle
Ahriman
Plateau
Executive
3. The USA should care because until peace is achieved - the USA is appeared _______.
American Troops
Refugees
Biased
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
4. A point of land extending into the sea. It is usually smaller than a peninsula - mountainous ones are sometimes called a promontory or a headline.
Recitation
Cape
Totalitarion
Judicial
5. Capital for the Mongols
Baghdad
268
Canyon
8
6. Sharpened Reed
1987
1917
Theodor Herzl
Stylus
7. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______
7
Theodor Herzl
8 kilometers from Sana
57 million square miles
8. Dictator of Libya
Parables
Continental Divide
55% - 45%
Muammar Gaddafi
9. Another word to call Longitude
Mixed Economy Systems
Refugees - oil
Meridian
New York City
10. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Zionism
6-25 miles
1187
11. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
USA
International Date Line
Bouazizi
8
12. Father of the Church
United Nations
Millet
Pope
Palestine Liberation Organization
13. The word continent comes from what language?
latin
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Judicial Review
Kibbutzim
14. The PLO leader
Revolution
Yassir Arafat
Mongols
Palestine Autonomy Plan
15. Al qaeda was formed by..
1187
22
Taxes
Bin Laden
16. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Royal Greenwich Observatory
57 million square miles
Baghdad
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
17. Congress is what?
Indonesia
bicameral
Impeach+Override Veto
Battleground between Good and Evil
18. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
Sea Routes
Russia
capitalism - global
41 - 25
19. IThe hebrew's sacred book.
Torah
1058
Anatolian
Sephardim
20. Israel's capital
Kaaba
Hellenistic
Jerusalem
1000
21. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Brookland Bridge
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
Egypt - Suez Canal
Coinage
22. The location Al Awlaki was killed was ______ _______ from ______.
8 kilometers from Sana
Shaking
1989
Southern Yemen
23. What does Medina mean?
Wheel
Anatolian
Steel doors
City of the Prophet
24. The Main idea in a civilization
Preemptive Strike
Dictatorship
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Written Language
25. The USA should care because until peace is achieved - the USA is appeared _______.
Cracks in the Mantle
Biased
Sephardim
Masada
26. The biggest landmasses on earth
plates
Martyr
Water
Continents
27. An organization for many groups which represent the Palestinian people.
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Globalization
Government
PLO
28. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.
Impeach+Override Veto
5
Southwest Asia
Seljuks
29. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?
Estuary
Russia
Oceania
22
30. Belief on more than one god
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Iranian Plateau
Refugees
Polytheistic
31. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
International Meridian Conference
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Diaspora
GCC - Saleh
32. The Main idea in a civilization
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Written Language
Oligarchy
Saudi Arabia
33. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
In the atlantic - near iceland
Ali
Alfred Wegener
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
34. Secretary of Defense
Leon Panetta
Anatolian Plateau
1258
Shiites
35. Uprising of Palestines
Young Turks
Martyrs
Yassir Arafat
intifada
36. How can congress check the president?
Jerusalem
Impeach+Override Veto
1917
69
37. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.
Stylus
Mixed Economic
Diaspora
Five Pillars of Islam
38. One of the big parties in Israel - traditionally supports more government control of the economy
Labor Party
1978
Lifetime
14
39. President of Yemen
Diaspora
Good and Evil
Saleh
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
40. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
1848
1978
Jews and Arabs
Strategic Important
41. The group in Mali - Mauretania and Niger - forges links with other groups like Boko Haram
Eyes and ears of the king
Shiites
Scarcity
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
42. Israel's two greatest kings.
Leon Panetta
David and Solomon
18%
Theodor Herzl
43. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Legislative
Leon Panetta
24
Peninsula
44. Capital for the Abbasids
Fertile Crescent
AQAP
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
Baghdad
45. The year the mongols came to power.
1258
Cuneiform
May 15 - 1948
Islam
46. The founder of Chrstianity.
Jesus
Mustafa Kemal
20 provinces
Arab Culture
47. Why is the arabian peninsula so important?
Oil
6 years
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Ottoman Empire
48. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
Globalization
Ottoman Empire
10
Shiites
49. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
2 years
Strategic Important
Cell
Ali
50. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.
Shiites
Sueing
Ramadan
Ashkenazim
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