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World Cultures Basics
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1. In this year - the Balfour Declaration was made.
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
1917
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
International Trade
2. Maghreb comes from an Arab term meaning this.
Western Isle
Sumer
15
Africa - Asia - and Europe
3. The last stand for the Jews - it was when the Romans were attacking - and they committed suicide because they didn't want to give up their freedom.
Masada
Maghreb
1947
King Hammurabi
4. A market economy is controlled by the forces of ____.
Martyr
Supply and Demand
Theodor Herzl
Oil
5. The resources necessary to produce goods and servaces
Factors of Production
Saudi Arabia
1095
1.2 billion
6. Approx how many people live in the middle east?
Roman
Ashkenazim
Adam Smith
350 million
7. IThe hebrew's sacred book.
Torah
19
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
US - Russia - UK - France - China
8. In the west of the Northern Tier is the ___ ___.
2 years
Youthquake
Kibbutzim
Anatolian Plateau
9. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
occupied territories
Diaspora
pay more money
SAudia Arabi
10. To wear the other side down
Attrition
Popular Sovereignty
Anointed
Royal Greenwich Observatory
11. How much one buisiness/company has
Supply
Hitties
Mixed Economy Systems
Scribes
12. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?
Gap between Rich and Poor
The Great Compromise
May 14 - 1948
Separation of Powers
13. The length of a senator's term
Shaking
6 years
Democratic Republic
Eastern Orthodox Church
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.
Alphabet
Island
May 15 - 1948
Scarcity
15. The sumerians invented these two things.
The Western Wall
Soviet Union
Sail and Plow
intifada
16. What killed Al Awlaki?
Drone
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Traditional
Zionism
17. The most famous leader of the PLO
Yassir Arafat
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Many Gods
18. A revolutionary group of young army officers
Canyon
Executive
Young Turks
Recruiter and Propagandist
19. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.
Persian And Byzantine
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Iran-Iraq War
Constantine
20. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Kaaba
desert
21. Factors 'on the ground'
AQAP
De Facto
Anwar Sadat
British
22. The ancient writing of the Sumerians that at first used pictographs - but then added phonetic symbols.
Cuneiform
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
200 million years
Pull apart and form rifts
23. OPEC
Scarcity
Martyrs
Gulf
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
24. The year the suez canal opened
1869
Turkey
Sephardim
Epic of Gilgamesh
25. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Tropic
Pope
2 billion
26. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Lebanon
Greeks
Yitzhak Rabin
27. The group in Mali - Mauretania and Niger - forges links with other groups like Boko Haram
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Africa - Asia - and Europe
latin
Messiah
28. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
15
Southern Yemen
Byzantine
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
29. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Iron
Umayyad
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
30. The Northern Tier stretches across ___ and ___.
Turkey and Iran
Measurment - 60
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Peninsula
31. Latitude is sometimes called this
Parallels
Four
1973
Persian And Byzantine
32. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Anarchy
Demand
Theodor Herzl
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
33. A holy war
Limited Government
Crusade
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Glacier
34. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Anointed
American Troops
Mountains
35. A market economy is controlled by this.
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Muhammad Ali
Supply and Demand
Epic of Gilgamesh
36. In January 1990 - the president of Turkey began filling the ___ reservoir with water from the Euphrates.
Impeach+Override Veto
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Obama - Panetta
Aturuk
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]
Roman
Latitude
1 year
Africa - Asia - and Europe
38. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
Impeach+Override Veto
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Persian And Byzantine
Yemen
39. The five largest countries in size in order from largest to smallest:
Adam Smith
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Knesset
Monarchy
40. When are federal elections held?
Carriers of Civilization
Oligarchy
Every Even Year
US - Russia - UK - France - China
41. Defined 'unlawful attacks'
Mustafa Kemal
Separation of Powers
Military commisions act
Refugees - oil
42. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
Turkey
Pope
Constantine
Villages
43. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?
Mongols
Umayyad
Yahweh
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
44. At the equator - each degree of longitude represents a distance of about ___ miles
Israel
700 people
69
pursue in self-interest
45. Sharpened Reed
Partition - 2
24
Greenwich - England
Stylus
46. Al Qaeda has changed in two ways: More ______ into _____ - went for ____ and ______ attacks.
19
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
632
Anatolian Plateau
47. Allows to tap on phones
USA Patriot ACt
Plateau
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
1964
48. Doesn't rely on natural resources - but on intellectual capital competitive schooling - and the support of both science and technology
Weightless Economy
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Egypt
49. The most famous leader of the PLO
Yassir Arafat
Ocean Currents
Jihad
Hulagu
50. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
2 billion
temperates
Monotheistic
desert
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