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World Cultures Basics
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1. Explains the life of Jesus
May 15 - 1948
Ali
Gospels
Preemptive Strike
2. In this year - Israel was formed but was then attacked the next day.
Greenwich - England
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
1948
2014
3. Free social services and education - no taxes
Balfour Declaration
Welfare State
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Taxes
4. The romans brought this political thing to the Middle East.
Law and Government
Constantinople
20 provinces
Arabs
5. How many time zones are there?
Limited Government
Island
15
24
6. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?
Kaaba
Masada
Soviet Union
632
7. The length of a senator's term
Limited Government
6 years
Yemen
Steel doors
8. Forceful attacks in response to an injury
British
Southern Yemen
Money and Security
reprisals
9. Jews from around the Mediterranean and Middle East
Egypt
Sephardim
Democratic Republic
Likud Party
10. Grievences of the middle east
West Bank
Equator
Irrigation Systems
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
11. How many muslims are their worldwide?
Kaaba
1945
1.2 billion
Roman Catholic Church
12. The year the ottoman empire fell.
1917
Hemisphere
Crusade
6
13. There were ___ hijackers.
New Jersey
19
October 1884
Daylight Saving Time
14. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.
Strategic Important
Sovereign
Equator
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
15. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
Executive
Baghdad
Pull apart and form rifts
King Vishtaspa
16. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
80%
Mustafa Kemal
2 billion
Globalization
17. Intifada literally means...
Shaking
Marbury v. Madison
Sovereign
Europe and Asia
18. The Lash Kar E Tayyiba are famous for the _____ attacks.
Separation of Powers
Northern
Mumbai
Continents
19. The scattering of Jews around the world
Diaspora
Masada
Mandate
Southwest Asia
20. NATO stands for...
Oslo Accords
10
Ziggurat
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
21. 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.
1803
Youthquake
Fjord
Yassir Arafat
22. What is the line that divides the Northern Hemisphere from the Southern Hempishere?
Equator
Western Europe - Islamic
A.D. 70
Archipelago
23. How old do you have to be to be the president?
May 14 - 1948
May 15 - 1948
35
Priests
24. The empire that took over the Abbasids.
Mongols
Factors of Production
Mediterranean and Red
Shiites
25. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
Yitzhak Rabin
Anatolian
Ottoman Empire
Atoll
26. What was Karl Marx's famous quote?
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27. UN stands for..
Alphabet
United Nations
Battleground between Good and Evil
NSA - CIA
28. Each country gets _ vote in the ______ _____.
Jews and Arabs
1 - General Assembly
Longitude
King Hammurabi
29. Capital for the Crusaders
1848
Capitalism
Baghdad
6 years
30. What operation added metal dectectors/pat-downs?
Taxes
1917
Glacier
TSA
31. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
US - Russia - UK - France - China
1917
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
Anointed
32. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Monotheistic
Anointed
Bouazizi
Western Europe - Islamic
33. To set oneself' on fire
North into South
Self Immolation
Partition - 2
Pentagon
34. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Water
1947
Byzantine
35. President of Yemen
6 months
Anatolian Plateau
Saleh
Roman
36. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Police
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Aturuk
Golan Heights
37. We now call Australia by this name.
1453
Quraysh
Oceania
Money and Security
38. This church was centered in Constantinople.
USA
UN cease-fire
Eastern Orthodox Church
Al Shabaab
39. Allows to tap on phones
Palestine Autonomy Plan
USA Patriot ACt
SAudia Arabi
TSA
40. Known as 'The Prophet'
The Oslo Peace Accord
The Oslo Peace Accord
Muhammad
Youthquake
41. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.
Attrition
Shiites
Martyrs
5
42. Israel's capital
Jerusalem
Refugees
King Hammurabi
1964
43. Latitude is sometimes called this
Impeach president and veto president's veto
All-Powerful
Parallels
Ahura Mazda
44. Al Awlaki's father has filed a lawsuit against which two people?
Continents
Obama - Panetta
Scarcity
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
45. In which two hemispheres is Australia located?
Eastern and Southern
May 14 - 1948
Turkey
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
46. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Desalination Plants
Iron
Money and Security
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
47. The purpose of al qaeda was to get _____ ____ out of middle east.
American Troops
Arab
Egypt
1095
48. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
Islam
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Yom Kippur
Hellenistic
49. This country really 'owns' the Euphrates.
2014
Turkey
Eastern Orthodox Church
Western Isle
50. How many people get most of the wealth?
7
Democracies
20%
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba