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World Cultures Basics
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1. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___
Good and Evil
435
Karl Marx
Refugees - oil
2. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
Taxes
New York City
The Great Compromise
200 million years
3. Al Awlaki was the head of ___.
AQAP
Turkey
22
80%
4. A triangular-shaped land found at the mouth of some large rivers. So much soil is transported by the river that the coastal waters cannot wash it all away.
268
Mecca and Yathrib
May 2011
Delta
5. To set oneself' on fire
632
Maghreb
Self Immolation
Indonesia
6. Each country gets _ vote in the ______ _____.
Equator
Factors of Production
Dictatorship
1 - General Assembly
7. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
1095
Masada
De Facto
6
8. Hatred to Jews
Monarchy
equilibrium price
Anti-Semitism
Oil
9. In which two hemispheres is Australia located?
Desert Storm
Police
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Eastern and Southern
10. Grievences of the middle east
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Every Even Year
Many Gods
2 billion
11. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
Sunni
Oil
1187
570
12. Al Qaeda has changed in two ways: More ______ into _____ - went for ____ and ______ attacks.
Shiites
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Water
15
13. The year the mongols came to power.
1096
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
UN cease-fire
1258
14. Out of the security council members on the uN - how many are permanent?
Ring of Fire
5
Executive
5 million
15. We care because we have gotten threats from AQAP - and even acts such as these 2 terror attacks.
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Priests
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Youthquake
16. Only Power is from the people
Hemisphere
All-Powerful
Separation of Powers
Popular Sovereignty
17. Where people elect representatives
Water
Gap between Rich and Poor
Drone
Republic
18. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.
Palestine Liberation Organization
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Islam
Satrap
19. In this year - the Balfour Declaration was made.
1917
10
Mandate
570
20. The capital for the Umayyads
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Gospels
Monotheistic
Damascus
21. The most ancient of the three religions of the middle east.
Judaism
Estuary
Turkey
Eastern Orthodox Church
22. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...
Byzantine
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Anatolian Plateau
bicameral
23. Under the Oslo Accords - Israel and the PLO said they would _____ ____ ___.
Gabriel
Archipelago
recognize each other
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
24. People who flee their homeland to seek safety somewhere else.
1989
Menorah
Refugees
North Tower
25. Muhammad died in this year.
Seljuks
20%
632
Anarchy
26. Congress is apart of what location of power?
Legislative
750
1453
630
27. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Babylonians
Khadija
Ziggurat
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
28. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...
Isthmus
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
May 15 - 1948
World Trade Centers
29. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Eastern Orthodox Church
Mongols
Revolution
Tropic
30. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?
De Juro
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
41 - 25
Sana - Taiz and Aden
31. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.
British
Judaism
Many Gods
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
32. The year Communist Manifesto was written
1967
Hajj
1964
1848
33. The month that all muslims must fast
Ramadan
All-Powerful
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Traditional
34. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Western Europe - Islamic
Many Gods
Knesset
35. A person who dies for his/her beliefs
intifada
Anatolian
Martyr
GCC - Saleh
36. The first civilization in the Middle East.
Sumer
Suq
SAudia Arabi
Scribes
37. Mesopotamia literally means...
Jerusalem
Irrigation Systems
1776
Land between the rivers
38. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.
North into South
NYPD
Ramadan
Quraysh
39. The Main idea in a civilization
Southwest Asia
Written Language
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
40. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
UN cease-fire
Coinage
intifada
268
41. Individuals own all resources - both human and non-human.
Capitalism
Judicial Review
Ahriman
Youthquake
42. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
15
6 years
occupied territories
360
43. The current head of al qaeda wants to direct al qaeda towards ____ countries.
South Tower
SAudia Arabi
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Arab
44. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?
Umayyad
Stylus
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
45. Approx this many Jews died in the holocaust.
Gap between Rich and Poor
360
57 million square miles
Six Million
46. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
David Ben-Gurion
Parallels
Estuary
Persian And Byzantine
47. The continents slowly moving across the melted rock is called
Attrition
Steel doors
Monotheistic
Continental drift
48. What does czar/czarina mean?
Many Gods
Camp David Accords
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Monotheistic
49. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
PLO
Mandate
Aturuk
24
50. Individuals own their own human capital and the government most other - non-human resources
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Socialism
All-Powerful
22