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World Cultures Basics
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1. 3 Characteristics of a boyar
Six Million
1/3
35
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
2. The dividing lines between the eastern and western hemisphere
Oil
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Yemen
Ferdinand de Lesseps
3. Israel is about the size of what state?
Arab
1948 war
1948
New Jersey
4. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
9 years
632
Persian And Byzantine
May 14 - 1948
5. The month that all muslims must fast
Mandate
Head Waters
Hejira
Ramadan
6. The conference also voted to adopt a universal world day and a ___-hour clock - based on _______ at the Greenwich meridian.
American Troops
Turkey
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
24 - midnight
7. A revolutionary group of young army officers
pursue in self-interest
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Young Turks
15
8. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
equilibrium price
Executive
Mecca
9. The Chief features of the Maghreb are these landscapes.
Globalization
South Tower
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Shaking
10. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
Iran-Iraq War
City of the Prophet
Oslo Accords
Bedouins
11. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___
Yahweh
Nomads
De Facto
Good and Evil
12. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?
30
57 million square miles
North Tower
9 years
13. Halfway point around the earth - where one day ends and a new day begins.
Anatolian Plateau
Hellenistic
6 months
International Date Line
14. When are federal elections held?
Mosque
Arab
Sovereign
Every Even Year
15. Why is the arabian peninsula so important?
World Trade Centers
Pope
Oil
Quraysh
16. This is the holiest sight in Judaism - and is remains of the earliest temples.
20 provinces
Gospels
The Western Wall
69
17. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.
10
Shiites
Mumbai
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
18. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
capitalism - global
Money and Security
Three Weeks
Muammar Gaddafi
19. At the equator - each degree of longitude represents a distance of about ___ miles
Baghdad
1776
69
Oasis
20. The PLO leader
Young Turks
Head Waters
Yassir Arafat
recognize each other
21. The internet-savvy youth of the arab countries that have studied in the west are the head of the Arab Spring - so they are called a _____.
25
Youthquake
Roman
Anatolian Plateau
22. 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.
Pangaea
Yahweh
Island
intifada
23. The founder of Chrstianity.
pursue in self-interest
Hejira
Sinai Peninsula
Jesus
24. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Judaism
Anointed
Legislative
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
25. An example of a monarchy
Demand
Parables
Britain
Mandate
26. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
Jordan and Egypt
Longitude
1973
Arab Culture
27. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
Saladin
Judicial Review
1947
Turkey
28. Half of a sphere
Cult of Personality
350 million
1945
Hemisphere
29. The writings that had everything abut Zorastiranism in it.
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Egypt
Zendavesta
International Date Line
30. The first civilization in the Middle East.
Fertile Crescent
USA
Torah
Sumer
31. Father of the Church
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
69
John Marshal
Pope
32. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer
Koran
US - Russia - UK - France - China
USA
Gabriel
33. These protestors in New York want attention about...
Gospels
Security
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Theodor Herzl
34. The first civilization in the Middle East.
Cracks in the Mantle
Sumer
18%
Likud Party
35. Another word to call Longitude
25
latin
Meridian
Palestine Autonomy Plan
36. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
1993
Ungoverned
20 provinces
Anti-Semitism
37. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.
Camp David Accords
Pentagon
pay more money
Anwar Sadat
38. How can congress check the president?
Impeach+Override Veto
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
City of the Prophet
Russia
39. Belief on more than one god
Arabs
Kibbutzim
Polytheistic
Royal Greenwich Observatory
40. 3 Characteristics of a boyar
1949
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
anti-Semitism
reprisals
41. Al quaeda means...
The Base
Government
Alexander of Macedonia
International Meridian Conference
42. UN stands for..
1948 war
desert
Irrigation Systems
United Nations
43. Belief in One God
Monotheistic
69
Steel doors
Judaism
44. The leader of the Likud bloc that became the prime minister in 1996.
Bethlehem
Western Europe - Islamic
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Benjamin Netanyahu
45. How many plates are known?
18
United - Beliefs
Supply and Demand
West Bank
46. The internet-savvy youth of the arab countries that have studied in the west are the head of the Arab Spring - so they are called a _____.
United - Beliefs
Crusade
Irrigation Systems
Youthquake
47. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
Anti-Semitism
1917
2 billion
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
48. The Hitties are best known for this.
Traditional
Iron
Dictatorship
East Jerusalem
49. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Shiites
John Marshal
Wheel
15
50. One of the big Parties in israel - and it believes that businesses should be free of government intervention.
Likud Party
Meridian
Zionism
federalism