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World Cultures Basics

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1. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?






2. A broad expanse of generally high and flat land - also called a tableland. They can rise up from a lower area - or can be level regions within a mountain range.






3. What two orginizations should've protected us?






4. What is yemen scarce on?






5. This empire expanded eastward - and by AD 115 it ruled much of the Middle East.






6. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.






7. Israel is about the size of what state?






8. The tower outside the mosque to call people to prayer.






9. Belief on more than one god






10. Al quaeda means...






11. The year the Seljuks seized Baghdad.






12. A market economy is controlled by this.






13. How many hours is in one day?






14. Another word to call Longitude






15. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring






16. Landforms with highest elevation






17. Israel captured these lands after the 6 day war.






18. Belief in One God






19. What killed Al Awlaki?






20. Sumerians wrote on ____ _____.






21. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?






22. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.






23. 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.






24. The Northern Tier stretches across ___ and ___.






25. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth






26. What was the single-continent called?






27. Under the Oslo Accords - Israel and the PLO said they would _____ ____ ___.






28. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.






29. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.






30. Secretary of Defense






31. To wear the other side down






32. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.






33. Every continent but which two are surrounded by water?






34. Seven-branched candleholder






35. What two orginizations should've protected us?






36. According to Zoraster - the forces of evil were led by this person.






37. The sumerians invented these two things.






38. Factors 'on the ground'






39. Al Awlaki was the head of ___.






40. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?






41. 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]






42. How much of the world's people are Muslim?






43. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?






44. One reason Islam expanded so swiftly is because the arab armies were ___ by their ___ - because Islam taught that Muslim warriors who died in service of Islam would win a place in paradise.






45. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.






46. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.






47. Flight 77 hit where?






48. Current Head of Al Qaeda






49. Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occuring in the Arab world.






50. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.







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