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World Cultures Basics
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1. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
Kaaba
Cuneiform
Saladin
Africa - Asia - and Europe
2. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?
Yassir Arafat
Lebanon
1967
Anatolian
3. One reason Islam expanded so swiftly is because the arab armies were ___ by their ___ - because Islam taught that Muslim warriors who died in service of Islam would win a place in paradise.
Strait
Priests
United - Beliefs
Suq
4. How many people were arrested due to the New York protests on saturday?
International Trade
Villages
1096
700 people
5. What was the 'invisible hand?'
pursue in self-interest
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Leon Panetta
Darius I
6. What was the 'invisible hand?'
Torah
1095
pursue in self-interest
Pakistan and Afghanistan
7. Secretary of Defense
Hellenistic
Arab
bicameral
Leon Panetta
8. Jesus was born here
David Ben-Gurion
Bouazizi
Bethlehem
19
9. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?
USA Patriot ACt
Deserts
80%
Jerusalem
10. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
May 15 - 1948
Kuwait
GCC - Saleh
Atoll
11. What are the senate's job?
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12. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Muhammad
13. Grievences of the middle east
Impeach+Override Veto
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
October 1884
14. A body of water that penetrates a coastline. It is generally wider in the middle. It is usually smaller than a gulf - but larger than a cove.
equilibrium price
Bay
Department of Homeland Security
6 months
15. The movement of Jews to re-establish a home in Palestine
Bedouins
Head Waters
Clay Tablets
Zionism
16. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
1/3
Northern
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
17. The month/year where the International Meridian Conference was held
October 1884
Mixed Economy Systems
Longitude
Good and Evil
18. The length of a senator's term
164
US - Russia - UK - France - China
6 years
Satrap
19. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Desalination Plants
intifada
Peninsula
8
20. Landforms with highest elevation
Mountains
Roads
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
8
21. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?
268
Cancer
plates
19
22. Christian Head
Egypt - Suez Canal
70%
1948
Pope
23. Give an example of exponential
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24. Called 'the sick man of Europe'
Ottoman Empire
2 billion
Messiah
Glacier
25. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
Turkey
Soviet Union
Mixed Economy Systems
Pope
26. A 1 -800 mile thick region of hot mineral matter
Totalitarion
14
1 year
Mantle
27. In the six day war - Israel got what 2 lands from Egypt?
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
West Bank
1948
Western Isle
28. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.
capitalism - global
PLO
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Satrap
29. The US owns __ trillion dollars of this wealth.
Impeach+Override Veto
11
1 - General Assembly
Egypt
30. Mesopotamia literally means...
Stylus
1/5
Land between the rivers
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
31. Israel's capital
Popular Sovereignty
Jerusalem
Wheel
Kaaba
32. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
Measurment - 60
Globalization
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Oasis
33. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Deserts
Mongols
Al Shabaab
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
34. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.
Arab Culture
Parables
Factors of Production
6
35. Al quaeda means...
The Base
Capture
Caliph
Martyrs
36. How many time zones are there?
24
Canaan
1948 war
7
37. What two orginizations should've protected us?
Water
Hellenistic
Zionism
NSA - CIA
38. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Zionist
Democracies
Shiites
Sana - Taiz and Aden
39. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Continental Divide
Khan
Mediterranean and Red
Separation of Powers
40. Only Power is from the people
Adam Smith
October 1884
HImalayas
Popular Sovereignty
41. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Shanksville
Yassir Arafat
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Wheel
42. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
Martyrs
Muammar Gaddafi
Ahriman
Ottoman Empire
43. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
The Great Compromise
Mecca
Soviet Union
Southern Yemen
44. How much is a majority on the UN?
9
Mecca
TSA
Muammar Gaddafi
45. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
Umayyad
Judicial Review
East Jerusalem
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
46. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Darius I
Western and Northern
Aristocracy
Tropic
47. Out of the security council members on the uN - how many are permanent?
24
Scarcity
temperates
5
48. The new leaders of Al Qaeda went for _____.
Law and Government
Attrition
Communism
41 - 25
49. Marketplace
Suq
October 1884
Longitude
Damascus
50. Al Qaeda has changed in two ways: More ______ into _____ - went for ____ and ______ attacks.
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Yahweh
David and Solomon
350000