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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society
temperates
May 14 - 1948
Government
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
2. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
Communism
King Vishtaspa
Menorah
Judicial Review
3. This case determined Judicial Review.
reprisals
New Jersey
Harry Truman
Marbury v. Madison
4. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
Iranian Plateau
Likud Party
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Mandate
5. How many justices are there?
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
9
Mosque
Theocracy
6. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
Yemen
Judicial Review
Obama - Panetta
7. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
70%
King Hammurabi
9 years
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
8. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Marbury v. Madison
4 years
Atoll
9. The word continent comes from what language?
latin
Flood Waters
200 million years
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
10. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Latitude
federalism
Popular Sovereignty
11. The Abbassid empire built these.
Yitzhak Rabin
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Executive
Ring of Fire
12. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
Roman Catholic Church
Isthmus
Epic of Gilgamesh
Pull apart and form rifts
13. The Byzantine's capital
7
South Tower
Western Isle
Constantinople
14. How many plates are known?
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
18
35
Money and Security
15. Successor to the Prophet
Palestine Liberation Organization
Democratic Republic
Caliph
Roman Catholic Church
16. This country really 'owns' the Euphrates.
Sea Routes
Satrap
The Oslo Peace Accord
Turkey
17. Belived that any devout Muslim could become a caliph.
Sunni
22
Suq
Hemisphere
18. Factors of Law
Mandate
De Juro
latin
Communism
19. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?
350000
Judicial Review
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Latitude
20. The year the Seljuks seized Baghdad.
Abu Bakar
Tropic
1058
Anwar Sadat
21. Wrote Communist Manifesto
Refugees
anti-Semitism
Karl Marx
May 14 - 1948
22. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
East Jerusalem
PLO
Royal Greenwich Observatory
23. In 1956 - Israel - Britain - and France attacked __ after it's prime minister nationalized the ________.
David Ben-Gurion
Egypt - Suez Canal
Ring of Fire
Equator
24. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.
1945
Constantine
435
Aristocracy
25. A body of land completely surrounded by water. It is smaller than a continent but larger than a cay - a key - or certainly a large rock.
Continental Divide
Island
Pakistan and Afghanistan
1947
26. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Alphabet
Separation of Powers
Prime Meridian
15
27. Instead of 1 - a small group
Oligarchy
Daylight Saving Time
Hajj
2 years
28. The UN is headquarters in ____.
1000
New York City
1917
The Great Compromise
29. How many hemispheres are there?
700 people
Babylonians
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Four
30. The four seasons of the year occur in which earth zone?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
OPEC
temperates
24
31. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?
80%
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
1947
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
32. Belief in One God
Moses
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Monotheistic
Camp David Accords
33. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.
Republic
Irrigation Systems
24 - midnight
Umayyad
34. The founder of Chrstianity.
Jesus
Five Pillars of Islam
Priests
Plateau
35. Muslim holy book
resolve conflict
federalism
Koran
Royal Greenwich Observatory
36. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
Legislative
1 year
Arabs
Martyr
37. Jesus was born here
10
Monotheistic
Bethlehem
Northern
38. Religious teachers
Sumer
Dictatorship
Egypt
Prophets
39. A small body of water separated from the larger sea by a barrier of sand or coral reefs. It can either be adjacent to coastline or surrounded by an atoll.
Lagoon
Likud Party
Strait
18
40. In the Umayyad dynasty - all the highest jobs and the army went to ___.
Arabs
Anwar Sadat
pursue in self-interest
Every Even Year
41. An example of a country which has large oil resources - but doesn't have a part in OPEC.
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Russia
15
Khan
42. Palestine is important to Christians for what reason?
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
GCC - Saleh
Mosque
Republic
43. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?
Abu Bakar
International Meridian Conference
Gap between Rich and Poor
Balfour Declaration
44. The day Israel is officially formed
Attrition
May 14 - 1948
Sunni
24
45. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Lifetime
Carriers of Civilization
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Indonesia
46. A tall - flat-topped mountain with steep vertical sides. Erosion-resistant ones are left standing after all else has gone.
Mesa
Welfare State
1/3
Demand
47. What was the name of the tax that jews+christians had to pay? (A big reason why they converted to Islam)
nonbeliever tax
1/5
Drip Irrigation
Drone
48. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
2014
Ashkenazim
International Meridian Conference
Lebanon
49. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Law and Government
Mecca and Yathrib
50. Who was also killed along with Al Awlaki?
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Continental Divide
Khan