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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 height of the land above sea level






2. The Byzantine's capital






3. Pilgrimage to Mecca






4. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.






5. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.






6. Added 4 characters to the phonecian language






7. How old do you have to be to be a senator?






8. What religion was found in the Arab Peninsula?






9. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.






10. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.






11. The Phonecians are known as this because they spread the culture of the ancient Middle East across a wide area.






12. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.






13. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.






14. Forceful attacks in response to an injury






15. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.






16. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.






17. Conquered the Fertile Crescent in about 1500 BC






18. What are the second - third - and fourth biggest majority ethnic groups in the middle east?






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






20. The year the Balfour Declaration started.






21. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown






22. Only Power is from the people






23. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.






24. Congress is apart of what location of power?






25. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published






26. In the six day war - Israel got what 2 lands from Egypt?






27. Tallest Mountains in the World






28. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?






29. Israel is about the size of what state?






30. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?






31. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.






32. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?






33. A holy war






34. The year Communist Manifesto was written






35. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.






36. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.






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






38. The UN was founded in....






39. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.






40. This church was centered in Constantinople.






41. Arc-shaped region that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf.






42. Wrote The Wealth of Nations






43. The US owns __ trillion dollars of this wealth.






44. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.






45. The kingdom that the jews formed was located here.






46. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?






47. The capital for the Ottomans






48. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.






49. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq






50. How old do you have to be to be the president?