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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Israel captured these lands after the 6 day war.
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Epic of Gilgamesh
Continental drift
Ali
2. People that travel from one place to another.
Every Even Year
latin
Nomads
Fertile Crescent
3. Water spot in desert
Labor Party
Oasis
Arab
1973
4. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
Southwest Asia
anti-Semitism
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
International Trade
5. How many representatives are there?
Oceania
435
Canyon
164
6. The world' largest single Muslim community is here.
Palestine Liberation Organization
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
350 million
Indonesia
7. 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.
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
570
Kaaba
8. The continents slowly moving across the melted rock is called
700 people
Anatolian Plateau
Continental drift
Mongols
9. Qu'ran literally means this.
De Facto
Jordan and Egypt
Mediterranean and Red
Recitation
10. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
Executive
1967
15
Priests
11. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.
Ocean Currents
Yahweh
Oil
1.2 billion
12. The last stand for the Jews - it was when the Romans were attacking - and they committed suicide because they didn't want to give up their freedom.
Masada
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
57 million square miles
Ramadan
13. OBL was captured when?
May 2011
Golan Heights
Marbury v. Madison
Menorah
14. The month/year where the International Meridian Conference was held
Oil
Law and Government
Baghdad
October 1884
15. Halfway point around the earth - where one day ends and a new day begins.
International Date Line
resolve conflict
Canyon
capitalism - global
16. The month that all muslims must fast
Ramadan
Zendavesta
Monotheistic
6-25 miles
17. The UN decided to ___ Palestine into ___ countries
Partition - 2
Many Gods
Britain - UN
Steel doors
18. Where people elect representatives
Republic
Veto
350000
9 years
19. A certain group of people
Demographic
24
Palestine Autonomy Plan
PLO
20. Jesus was born here
October 1884
Bethlehem
14
bankrupt
21. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
Europe and Asia
Northern
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Zendavesta
22. Belief in One God
Self Immolation
14
Latitude
Monotheistic
23. A point of land extending into the sea. It is usually smaller than a peninsula - mountainous ones are sometimes called a promontory or a headline.
1917
632
Intifada
Cape
24. Al Qaeda has changed in two ways: More ______ into _____ - went for ____ and ______ attacks.
US
Benjamin Netanyahu
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Zoraster
25. What does Medina mean?
Palestine Liberation Organization
City of the Prophet
1993
Baghdad
26. Al Qaeda was formed in..
Golan Heights
Wheel
Menorah
1989
27. A broad expanse of generally high and flat land - also called a tableland. They can rise up from a lower area - or can be level regions within a mountain range.
HImalayas
TSA
Plateau
All-Powerful
28. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
Egypt
Gap between Rich and Poor
1/3
15
29. What's the representatives' jobs?
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30. This empire expanded eastward - and by AD 115 it ruled much of the Middle East.
Mixed Economic
Continents
Roman
9
31. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer
Islam
350000
Roman
Gabriel
32. Arab nations attacked on this day in the 1973 war.
Arab
4 years
Western Isle
Yom Kippur
33. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
Government
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Soviet Union
Tyranny
34. 3.5 radicals - operate missions.
Sovereign
Sovereign
Cell
Elevation
35. Israel Prime minister that was assasinated - and was thought to be the last chance at peace.
Democracy
Yitzhak Rabin
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Cancer
36. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
UN cease-fire
resolve conflict
350000
Anwar Sadat
37. The crusadess had a limited effect on the Middle East because the civilization of ___ _____ was less advanced than that of the ______.
British
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Baghdad
Western Europe - Islamic
38. The document that said Britain supports idea of Jewish homeland with right of non-Jews protected
Balfour Declaration
Monotheistic
Constantine
Ali
39. Every continent but which two are surrounded by water?
Europe and Asia
1949
Germany
Constantinople
40. Israel's capital
Legislative
Jerusalem
Ali
The Oslo Peace Accord
41. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Pope
Three Weeks
Supply
42. 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.
Land between the rivers
Minaret
Mediterranean and Red
Lagoon
43. Dictator of Libya
OPEC
Palestine Liberation Organization
Muammar Gaddafi
Cancer
44. 1st caliph after Muhammad
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Anarchy
Indonesia
Abu Bakar
45. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring
Bouazizi
Maghreb
Obama - Panetta
1803
46. The empire that took over the Abbasids.
Mongols
temperates
Knesset
Muhammad Ali
47. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
Quraysh
1947
Government
200 million years
48. In March 2002 - Israeli military forces invaded Palestinian-ruled areas of the ____ ____.
Delta
West Bank
5 million
75
49. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Meridian
De Juro
Strait
1803
50. Seven-branched candleholder
Yassir Arafat
1949
Menorah
1776