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World Cultures Basics
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1. Where did the first civilization in the middle east originate?
Intifada
Inspire
Fertile Crescent
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
2. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
resolve conflict
Three Weeks
Mustafa Kemal
nonbeliever tax
3. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
federalism
plates
Equator
Suq
4. 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
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Democracy
570
5. When are federal elections held?
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Pope
Every Even Year
Knesset
6. Doesn't rely on natural resources - but on intellectual capital competitive schooling - and the support of both science and technology
Weightless Economy
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Bin Laden
Eyes and ears of the king
7. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Democratic Republic
Gap between Rich and Poor
Messiah
8. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
Ramadan
Delta
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
US - Russia - UK - France - China
9. Al quaeda means...
De Facto
The Base
Indian Ocean
1000
10. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
2 billion
Zoraster
Continental drift
11. There are ____ nations - dependent areas and other political regions.
268
Hejira
Gulf
18
12. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
35
Judicial
Arab
6 months
13. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring
Shimon Peres
Ashkenazim
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Bouazizi
14. The capital for the Umayyads
Youthquake
Camp David Accords
Damascus
Scribes
15. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Mediterranean and Red
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Alphabet
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
16. What 2 seas does the Suez Canal Link
King Vishtaspa
Mediterranean and Red
Nomads
Water
17. Jihad
1453
Fjord
Water
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
18. Old warriors who were based in Afghanistan and Pakistan that had been left over from Mujahadeem - traced back to OBL
69
Meridian
Crusade
Al Qaeda Central
19. A form of government in which a Deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
Gulf
Totalitarion
Shiites
Theocracy
20. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
Desalination Plants
Jordan and Egypt
Baghdad
Five Pillars of Islam
21. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
Turkey
Khartoum - Sudan
Judaism
Strategic Important
22. The month/year where the International Meridian Conference was held
Benjamin Netanyahu
Epic of Gilgamesh
Oslo Accords
October 1884
23. An Albanian soldier who had fought against the French - who became governor of Egypt in 1805.
Karl Marx
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Western Isle
Muhammad Ali
24. Kept the temple records
1848
Longitude
1000
Scribes
25. The goal of this group was to end the power of western oil companies over oil prices.
Oslo Accords
Strategic Important
Monarchy
OPEC
26. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
Yassir Arafat
700 people
Labor Party
75
27. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
1967
Pentagon
Shiites
Equator
28. A person who dies for his/her beliefs
Gospels
Martyr
1096
Drip Irrigation
29. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.
Satrap
24 - midnight
Jordan and Egypt
Demand
30. How many plates are known?
18
A.D. 70
Democratic Republic
Lebanon
31. Supporter of a Homeland for the Jews in the area of Palestine. Movement began in the 1800's.
Zionist
Brookland Bridge
Mongols
Continents
32. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
1917
Iran-Iraq War
Atoll
Gulf
33. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
15
Iron
North into South
pursue in self-interest
34. Helped the jews escape from egypt
Marbury v. Madison
Mecca
Moses
International Trade
35. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer
Gabriel
SAudia Arabi
Sueing
Mosque
36. A narrow - winding ocean inlet that penetrates a coastal mountain range. The steep cliffs that line its route make it one of nature's grandest sights.
May 14 - 1948
632
Many Gods
Fjord
37. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Khadija
Istanbul
Strait
Egypt - Suez Canal
38. What does czar/czarina mean?
Clay Tablets
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Satrap
Shaking
39. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
Minaret
occupied territories
Cracks in the Mantle
Iron
40. How much the people want
6
Demand
Arabs
Water
41. Only Power is from the people
Popular Sovereignty
Coinage
Continents
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
42. A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible for them
bicameral
Democratic Republic
Bay
Theodor Herzl
43. What are the 6 constituional laws?
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
35
Stylus
New Jersey
44. The UN is headquarters in ____.
Bouazizi
Pentagon
Youthquake
New York City
45. One of the big parties in Israel - traditionally supports more government control of the economy
Moses
Arab Culture
Khartoum - Sudan
Labor Party
46. An organization for many groups which represent the Palestinian people.
PLO
October 1884
Capitalism
Leon Panetta
47. The year the Balfour Declaration started.
1917
200 million years
Mujahideen
Yitzhak Rabin
48. What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
19
Kuwait
Peninsula
Lebanon
49. What operation added metal dectectors/pat-downs?
TSA
Soviet Union
King Hammurabi
164
50. How can president check congress?
South Tower
Police
Few Natural Barriers
Veto
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