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World Cultures Basics
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1. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.
Refugees - oil
Self Immolation
Mongols
Ottoman Empire
2. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
1917
Tyranny
1948 war
Ashkenazim
3. What are the 5 main physical regions of the Middle East? (alphabetical)
Theodor Herzl
Baghdad
1964
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
4. Fertile Desert Area that has enough water to support plant and animal life
Scribes
Military commisions act
Persian And Byzantine
Oasis
5. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
Six Million
Ali
8
Globalization
6. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
1917
Lifetime
Many Gods
Refugees
7. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
Diaspora
Palestine
1803
East Jerusalem
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.
Lebanon
Few Natural Barriers
Judicial
1948 war
9. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...
Popular Sovereignty
City of the Prophet
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Glacier
10. Who were called during the fire?
Equator
Theodor Herzl
NYPD
Balfour Declaration
11. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
Iranian Plateau
Anointed
Zoraster
Strait
12. PLO was founded In what year?
Sueing
Millet
Al Zawahiri
1964
13. The year that the UN partioned Palestine into 2 states.
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Judicial
pay more money
1947
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.
Yitzhak Rabin
Mongols
Island
plates
15. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?
22
USA Patriot ACt
164
Estuary
16. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
632
Millet
Byzantine
15
17. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.
US
Refugees
Five Pillars of Islam
Pentagon
18. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
American Troops
Obama - Panetta
Jihad
Supply and Demand
19. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.
Iran-Iraq War
Epic of Gilgamesh
David and Solomon
Constantine
20. Instead of 1 - a small group
City of the Prophet
Oligarchy
Few Natural Barriers
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
21. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.
Jews and Arabs
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Anointed
Isthmus
22. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
Muammar Gaddafi
Demand
Sunni
SAudia Arabi
23. How many plates are known?
Greeks
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
18
1947
24. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______
57 million square miles
Prime Meridian
Clay Tablets
temperates
25. Secretary of Defense
Ashkenazim
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Leon Panetta
Sana - Taiz and Aden
26. Belief in One God
Palestine
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Monotheistic
24
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.
Lagoon
15
Islam
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
28. President Bush said we would do what to the terrorists?
Capture
Anti-Semitism
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Moses
29. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
Yitzhak Rabin
8
International Trade
Recitation
30. Intifada literally means...
Shaking
God-given
Lebanon
1187
31. The umayyad dynasty emphazied ___ ____.
Arab Culture
Obama - Panetta
Wheel
Arab
32. The founder of Zionism
Jews and Arabs
Theodor Herzl
Jesus
Parallels
33. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
1993
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Capture
desert
34. The four seasons of the year occur in which earth zone?
temperates
15
Zoraster
Anointed
35. The capital for the Umayyads
Damascus
Diaspora
World Trade Centers
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
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?
Northern
Mantle
Alfred Wegener
The Great Compromise
37. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Ocean Currents
Maghreb
Military commisions act
38. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.
1948 war
Traditional
Canaan
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
39. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Mosque
Islam
Supply and Demand
70%
40. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Kibbutzim
1058
Capture
Deserts
41. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?
Continents
Diaspora
Few Natural Barriers
Umayyad
42. Operates the Suez Canal
Egypt
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Islam
USA
43. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.
Jews and Arabs
Judaism
Desalination Plants
Oslo Accords
44. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
Jews and Arabs
Arab Spring
Trade
All-Powerful
45. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)
Anatolian
1453
Archipelago
Diaspora
46. How deep does earth's crust go?
Mantle
Partition - 2
1000
6-25 miles
47. Belief on more than one god
Continental drift
20%
Deserts
Polytheistic
48. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?
15
Jordan
Plateau
Indian Ocean
49. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
Palestine
Judicial Review
Arabs
Turkey
50. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.
6
Clay Tablets
Ahura Mazda
Glacier
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