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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The PLO leader
Military commisions act
Torah
Britain - UN
Yassir Arafat
2. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
Police
East Jerusalem
1058
Three Weeks
3. Flight 77 hit where?
Gap between Rich and Poor
Peninsula
Pentagon
30
4. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.
Roads
Arab Culture
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Yitzhak Rabin
5. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
350 million
1989
De Facto
Three Weeks
6. AQ prefers more ___ territories.
Ungoverned
Monotheistic
1258
Recruiter and Propagandist
7. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state led to Israel returning WHAT -and to Egypt in return for diplomatic relations?
World Trade Centers
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Cape
Sinai Peninsula
8. Muhammad's tribe
Mantle
Quraysh
Refugees - oil
King Hammurabi
9. Darius divided his empire into __ _____.
Anatolian Plateau
United - Beliefs
19
20 provinces
10. Conquered the Fertile Crescent in about 1500 BC
Hitties
41 - 25
Eastern and Southern
Mumbai
11. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?
Clay Tablets
Bedouins
Western Isle
Sana - Taiz and Aden
12. Where people elect representatives
Plateau
Republic
Jesus
Priests
13. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?
Mesa
570
Sueing
Shanksville
14. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?
Mixed Economy Systems
18%
Mixed Economy Systems
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
15. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
1187
Good and Evil
Greeks
City of the Prophet
16. The word continent comes from what language?
latin
Adam Smith
Strategic Important
Anointed
17. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
Money and Security
Attrition
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Muammar Gaddafi
18. One of the big Parties in israel - and it believes that businesses should be free of government intervention.
Written Language
Likud Party
Jordan and Egypt
Popular Sovereignty
19. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Satrap
Government
20. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society
Government
Africa - Asia - and Europe
1848
A.D. 70
21. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
Mandate
Egypt
Coinage
22. Israel captured these lands after the 6 day war.
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
PLO
Khadija
Al Qaeda Central
23. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Jordan?
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Palestine Liberation Organization
West Bank
GCC - Saleh
24. The fourth caliph - muhammad's cousin and son-in-law.
Ali
Oil
East Jerusalem
occupied territories
25. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
Martyrs
Shimon Peres
1989
630
26. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
19
Diaspora
75
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
27. The tower outside the mosque to call people to prayer.
Khartoum - Sudan
Sea Routes
Capitalism
Minaret
28. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
latin
International Meridian Conference
57 million square miles
Measurment - 60
29. How many people get most of the wealth?
9
Saleh
1187
20%
30. The crusadess had a limited effect on the Middle East because the civilization of ___ _____ was less advanced than that of the ______.
In the atlantic - near iceland
Western Europe - Islamic
Intifada
plates
31. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
Western Europe - Islamic
Ali
Caliph
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
32. The highest point of a continent - from which the direction of river flow is determined.
OPEC
Continental Divide
1917
Popular Sovereignty
33. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?
6 months
Shiites
United Nations
Byzantine
34. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
The Base
Longitude
Government
Mediterranean and Red
35. Sharpened Reed
Gulf
Baghdad
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Stylus
36. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
Wheel
capitalism - global
Isthmus
Turkey
37. Measured in degrees according to the distance north or south of the equator (being 0 degrees and the poles 90 degrees) [basically circling the globe going left to right]
Desalination Plants
Latitude
Muhammad Ali
1803
38. 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?
pay more money
NYPD
Alfred Wegener
350000
39. How many time zones are there?
Iran-Iraq War
24
Democratic Republic
Aturuk
40. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.
East Jerusalem
Jihad
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Judaism
41. Helped the jews escape from egypt
Turkey
1/5
Moses
Sea Routes
42. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Roads
Saladin
Strait
US
43. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______
Oceania
Good and Evil
Caliph
57 million square miles
44. PLO was founded In what year?
1964
Sail and Plow
Khan
Ramadan
45. This man took over before Saleh re-returned.
1803
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Obama - Panetta
57 million square miles
46. Israel is one of two ___ in the middle east.
Democratic Republic
City of the Prophet
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Democracies
47. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
Many Gods
1947
Jihad
Mandate
48. Middle Eastern nations command vital __ ___.
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Pangaea
Sea Routes
Recruiter and Propagandist
49. This is the holiest sight in Judaism - and is remains of the earliest temples.
The Western Wall
Western Isle
Palestine
Factors of Production
50. Doesn't rely on natural resources - but on intellectual capital competitive schooling - and the support of both science and technology
Weightless Economy
American Troops
1948 war
Boko Haram