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World Cultures Basics
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1. The Main idea in a civilization
Written Language
Khan
Jerusalem
Recitation
2. A simple water hoist
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Shaduf
Cuneiform
US
3. The hebrews called their god this.
Persian And Byzantine
Suq
resolve conflict
Yahweh
4. After the first war in Israel - ____ controlled the West Bank - and ___ controlled the Gaza Strip.
Jordan and Egypt
anti-Semitism
Supply
Benjamin Netanyahu
5. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?
Drip Irrigation
Iran-Iraq War
Sueing
Ramadan
6. Belived that any devout Muslim could become a caliph.
Darius I
Sunni
22
Bethlehem
7. An example of a monarchy
Diaspora
Turkey and Iran
Jerusalem
Britain
8. The purpose of al qaeda was to get _____ ____ out of middle east.
American Troops
Bethlehem
Diaspora
Legislative
9. How deep does earth's crust go?
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
6-25 miles
Roman
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
10. Flight 93 hit where?
Meridian
Western and Northern
Britain - UN
Shanksville
11. This case determined Judicial Review.
Sunni
1989
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Marbury v. Madison
12. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
pursue in self-interest
Monotheistic
1993
Democracy
13. The founder of ancient persian religion Zorastrianism
Knesset
Zoraster
Diaspora
Baghdad
14. Explains the life of Jesus
Shaduf
Sueing
Reef
Gospels
15. What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
Kuwait
Istanbul
55% - 45%
Theodor Herzl
16. The ancient writing of the Sumerians that at first used pictographs - but then added phonetic symbols.
Cuneiform
22
Khadija
Palestine Autonomy Plan
17. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Many Gods
75
Abu Bakar
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
18. The group in Mali - Mauretania and Niger - forges links with other groups like Boko Haram
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Measurment - 60
Ottoman Empire
TSA
19. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Taxes
Desert Storm
Canaan
Executive
20. A huge - many tiered temple.
Ziggurat
Impeach+Override Veto
Wheel
Crusade
21. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Israel
Jordan and Egypt
Islam
Khadija
22. Free social services and education - no taxes
Welfare State
Mediterranean and Red
Anwar Sadat
Ferdinand de Lesseps
23. 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
Shiites
British
Roman
24. The height of the land above sea level
May 15 - 1948
Elevation
De Facto
Sueing
25. ___ forces have cracked down violently on the protests against the president of yemen.
Security
Lebanon
Cuneiform
UN
26. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
Mixed Economic
Arab
Recruiter and Propagandist
60 minutes
27. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Lebanon
Martyr
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
North Tower
28. By this year - Palestinians in the occupied lands had grown frustrated by years of Israeli military rule.
Soviet Union
1987
Zionist
Arab Spring
29. Darius sent out special inspectors - known as this.
Welfare State
All-Powerful
2014
Eyes and ears of the king
30. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Quraysh
Recitation
Yitzhak Rabin
31. OPEC stopped sending the US oil during this war.
1869
20%
Scarcity
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
32. The crusadess had a limited effect on the Middle East because the civilization of ___ _____ was less advanced than that of the ______.
Western Europe - Islamic
Istanbul
Pangaea
Maghreb
33. 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
Welfare State
Ahura Mazda
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
34. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Impeach+Override Veto
Arabs
Yassir Arafat
Police
35. The sumerians invented these two things.
Five Pillars of Islam
PLO
Sail and Plow
May 15 - 1948
36. Give an example of exponential
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37. AQ wants the west to go ___
Democracy
bankrupt
United Nations
Deserts
38. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
10
Damascus
1945
desert
39. What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
Refugees
Kuwait
Palestine Liberation Organization
15
40. What is the length of a president's term?
4 years
Constantinople
19
Britain - UN
41. How can congress check the president?
Attrition
Hulagu
Impeach+Override Veto
Capitalism
42. The day Israel is officially formed
American Troops
1989
May 14 - 1948
bicameral
43. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
Likud Party
Saudi Arabia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
44. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
24
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Kuwait
Lebanon
45. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Persian And Byzantine
5 million
Scribes
46. 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]
Latitude
Police
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Lebanon
47. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Supply and Demand
Anointed
nonbeliever tax
Kibbutzim
48. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
New Jersey
Mongols
Recruiter and Propagandist
John Marshal
49. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______
Three Weeks
Eyes and ears of the king
Arab
57 million square miles
50. PLO was founded In what year?
Labor Party
Anwar Sadat
1964
Boko Haram