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World Cultures Basics

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1. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.






2. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document






3. What are the 5 main physical regions of the Middle East? (alphabetical)






4. Fertile Desert Area that has enough water to support plant and animal life






5. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?






6. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.






7. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?






8. The first war Israel fought - the day after it was created. Egypt - Jordan - Syria - Iraq - and lebanon are the countries that fought against israel.






9. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...






10. Who were called during the fire?






11. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.






12. PLO was founded In what year?






13. The year that the UN partioned Palestine into 2 states.






14. 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.






15. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?






16. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.






17. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.






18. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?






19. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.






20. Instead of 1 - a small group






21. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.






22. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites






23. How many plates are known?






24. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______






25. Secretary of Defense






26. Belief in One God






27. 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.






28. President Bush said we would do what to the terrorists?






29. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?






30. Intifada literally means...






31. The umayyad dynasty emphazied ___ ____.






32. The founder of Zionism






33. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.






34. The four seasons of the year occur in which earth zone?






35. The capital for the Umayyads






36. Who explained why there was evidence of glacial formation in tropical Africa and why the opposing coastlines of South America and Africa look as if they could fit together?






37. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?






38. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.






39. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?






40. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.






41. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?






42. Operates the Suez Canal






43. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.






44. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.






45. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)






46. How deep does earth's crust go?






47. Belief on more than one god






48. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?






49. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.






50. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.






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