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World Cultures Basics
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1. The year the suez canal opened
Damascus
1776
Palestine Liberation Organization
1869
2. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?
Palestine
Limited Government
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Ferdinand de Lesseps
3. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
Abu Bakar
8
Sephardim
1187
4. A narrow - winding ocean inlet that penetrates a coastal mountain range. The steep cliffs that line its route make it one of nature's grandest sights.
Continental drift
Fjord
intifada
Judaism
5. Factors 'on the ground'
De Facto
Plateau
Young Turks
Prophets
6. What are the 6 constituional laws?
80%
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Torah
Hitties
7. Terror group in Nigeria.
Boko Haram
Money and Security
Money and Security
Law and Government
8. How many representatives are there?
October 1884
435
Continental drift
Baghdad
9. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.
desert
Seljuks
bankrupt
PLO
10. The group in Mali - Mauretania and Niger - forges links with other groups like Boko Haram
United - Beliefs
Weightless Economy
Bethlehem
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
11. The prime meridian is located here
Al Shabaab
Greenwich - England
1967
USA
12. 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?
24
Taxes
Soviet Union
Alfred Wegener
13. A vent - or opening in the earth's crust that allows molten lava - gases - and other materials to come out of earth's interior.
Lebanon
Messiah
Nomads
Volcano
14. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Jordan?
West Bank
Baghdad
Likud Party
Jews and Arabs
15. Grievences of the middle east
Continental Divide
60 minutes
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Anwar Sadat
16. Give an example of exponential
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17. In what year will the bric economies nomines become the largest producers of goods?
2014
Muhammad Ali
Judicial
60 minutes
18. Palestine is important to Christians for what reason?
East Jerusalem
1964
Lebanon
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
19. The new leaders of Al Qaeda went for _____.
Every Even Year
Turkey and Iran
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Attrition
20. An imaginary line around the middle of the earth that divides norther and souther hemispheres.
1948
Equator
1948 war
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
21. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
Turkey and Iran
Baghdad
Oasis
GCC - Saleh
22. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Fertile Crescent
Many Gods
latin
23. What year was Marbury v. Madison
1803
Pull apart and form rifts
Seljuks
Islam
24. __ delegates from __ nations met for the International Meridian Conference
41 - 25
Delta
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Oligarchy
25. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
200 million years
Separation of Powers
Glacier
Sephardim
26. Where do you have to be born to be the President?
USA
Soviet Union
Few Natural Barriers
UN cease-fire
27. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
35
1095
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
28. In May 1948 - the last ___ troops left Palestine.
British
Adam Smith
Seljuks
Arab
29. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
Refugees - oil
Strait
Longitude
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
30. After the first war in Israel - ____ controlled the West Bank - and ___ controlled the Gaza Strip.
Shiites
Yitzhak Rabin
Jordan and Egypt
6
31. The Phonecians are known as this because they spread the culture of the ancient Middle East across a wide area.
Carriers of Civilization
350000
Zoraster
Island
32. The month that all muslims must fast
Balfour Declaration
Mandate
Ramadan
Israel
33. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
18
De Facto
Hejira
Greeks
34. Belief in One God
Monotheistic
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Anti-Semitism
35. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.
18%
Isthmus
Sephardim
Jerusalem
36. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
Martyrs
Mountains
Youthquake
Russia
37. A part of an ocean or sea that is partially enclosed by a curving coastline. A more fully enclosed body of salt water could be called a sea.
Gulf
North into South
Babylonians
Ten Commandments
38. The middle east stands at the crossroads of what of three continents?
New Jersey
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Mantle
Jews and Arabs
39. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Continental Divide
Kibbutzim
equilibrium price
164
40. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
1095
Mantle
Israel
Minaret
41. Individuals own their own human capital and the government most other - non-human resources
Egypt
Veto
Pope
Socialism
42. Moves the time one hour ahead of Sun time
1949
Good and Evil
Abu Bakar
Daylight Saving Time
43. AQ wants the west to go ___
Sail and Plow
Obama - Panetta
Elevation
bankrupt
44. Half of a sphere
nonbeliever tax
Hemisphere
Democratic Republic
Fertile Crescent
45. Water spot in desert
Turkey and Iran
18%
Balfour Declaration
Oasis
46. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
1096
5 million
1945
1993
47. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
1948 war
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Parables
Factors of Production
48. To wear the other side down
David and Solomon
700 people
350000
Attrition
49. The sumerians set up this based on the number __.
Partition - 2
Marbury v. Madison
Measurment - 60
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
50. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
4 years
Umayyad
plates
Longitude
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