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World Cultures Basics
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1. Terror group in Nigeria.
Gulf
Boko Haram
Glacier
8 kilometers from Sana
2. Known as 'The Prophet'
Muhammad
A.D. 70
1964
Drone
3. A huge - many tiered temple.
Ziggurat
Ali
Saudi Arabia
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
4. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?
Iranian Plateau
Anatolian
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Britain - UN
5. Short stories with simple lessons
Parables
Attrition
10
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
6. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
Western Isle
All-Powerful
Law and Government
Mongols
7. The emperor of the large Persian empire in about 500 B.C.
Darius I
Plateau
Shimon Peres
Head Waters
8. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Syria?
Sueing
Pope
Golan Heights
Iranian Plateau
9. How old do you have to be to be the president?
Priests
Iran-Iraq War
35
200 million years
10. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?
1964
Bay
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Sana - Taiz and Aden
11. What operation added metal dectectors/pat-downs?
1/3
1989
Egypt
TSA
12. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
Flood Waters
1967
Gulf
Republic
13. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Maghreb
Mustafa Kemal
1/3
Satrap
14. PLO
Steel doors
Britain
Oligarchy
Palestine Liberation Organization
15. The Northern Tier stretches across ___ and ___.
Jews and Arabs
Mecca and Yathrib
Turkey and Iran
19
16. The writings that had everything abut Zorastiranism in it.
Zendavesta
41 - 25
Anointed
Democracy
17. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
Three Weeks
7
Strategic Important
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
18. This church was centered in Rome
Russia
Roman Catholic Church
Anwar Sadat
NSA - CIA
19. What are moving sections of earth's crust called?
plates
1987
Security
Likud Party
20. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Carriers of Civilization
Palestine Liberation Organization
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Tropic
21. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.
Kaaba
City of the Prophet
Marbury v. Madison
PLO
22. Exponential
Obama - Panetta
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
West Bank
Plateau
23. How much one buisiness/company has
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
In the atlantic - near iceland
Supply
Continents
24. How many years do you have to live in the USA to be the representative?
Iran-Iraq War
57 million square miles
Welfare State
7
25. Capital for the Crusaders
Baghdad
temperates
Dictatorship
Coinage
26. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
Yahweh
Bethlehem
Byzantine
International Trade
27. How many hemispheres are there?
Executive
Four
Carriers of Civilization
Shimon Peres
28. Mesopotamia literally means...
15
Equator
Mujahideen
Land between the rivers
29. The day Israel is officially formed
Likud Party
Quraysh
Water
May 14 - 1948
30. Settling of Jews out of Palestine
Baghdad
Diaspora
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
1989
31. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
Gospels
2014
East Jerusalem
Jesus
32. How many hemispheres are there?
Welfare State
equilibrium price
Wheel
Four
33. UN stands for..
Western Isle
Camp David Accords
United Nations
Supply
34. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Bouazizi
6
Kibbutzim
35. Some of the spaces AQ currently is in are ____ - _____ - _____ - ______
Water
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Hellenistic
UN cease-fire
36. The year the Balfour Declaration started.
1/5
Egypt
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
1917
37. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?
Golan Heights
22
1869
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
38. How many people get most of the wealth?
federalism
Mustafa Kemal
20%
Ashkenazim
39. What does Medina mean?
TSA
City of the Prophet
SAudia Arabi
Recruiter and Propagandist
40. A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible for them
1949
1947
North into South
Democratic Republic
41. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Menorah
Anarchy
Western Isle
1917
42. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
desert
pay more money
Leon Panetta
Capitalism
43. Al Qaeda was formed in..
Torah
Egypt - Suez Canal
Limited Government
1989
44. Current Head of Al Qaeda
Al Zawahiri
Supply and Demand
Hulagu
Factors of Production
45. Grievences of the middle east
Clay Tablets
5 million
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Soviet Union
46. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Israel
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Bouazizi
1947
47. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
David Ben-Gurion
Tyranny
Jerusalem
SAudia Arabi
48. First Prime Minister of Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
David Ben-Gurion
Veto
Eyes and ears of the king
49. What's the representatives' jobs?
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50. In 1994 - Israel and what country signed a peace treaty?
Nomads
Jordan
Continental drift
desert
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