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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The height of the land above sea level
Gaza Strip and West Bank
United - Beliefs
Measurment - 60
Elevation
2. The Byzantine's capital
Hajj
Constantinople
Sea Routes
Ziggurat
3. Pilgrimage to Mecca
Hajj
Benjamin Netanyahu
2014
Canaan
4. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
Money and Security
Ziggurat
Continental Divide
capitalism - global
5. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.
Isthmus
Adam Smith
35
Mustafa Kemal
6. Added 4 characters to the phonecian language
Scribes
Ten Commandments
Greeks
King Hammurabi
7. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
Law and Government
8 kilometers from Sana
30
Irrigation Systems
8. What religion was found in the Arab Peninsula?
Pangaea
anti-Semitism
Islam
1989
9. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.
Hulagu
Mixed Economy Systems
SAudia Arabi
Sephardim
10. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
Jerusalem
1947
Hajj
equilibrium price
11. The Phonecians are known as this because they spread the culture of the ancient Middle East across a wide area.
Bethlehem
Carriers of Civilization
6 months
recognize each other
12. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
1964
Shiites
NYPD
Darius I
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.
Anwar Sadat
Zionist
Oceania
Kaaba
14. Forceful attacks in response to an injury
Africa - Asia - and Europe
reprisals
Cape
Desalination Plants
15. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
2 years
King Hammurabi
Western Europe - Islamic
Hellenistic
16. It failed because it was originally suppposed to knock the ________ ____ _______.
Indian Ocean
Monarchy
Intifada
North into South
17. Conquered the Fertile Crescent in about 1500 BC
Eastern Orthodox Church
Anwar Sadat
Parallels
Hitties
18. What are the second - third - and fourth biggest majority ethnic groups in the middle east?
Refugees - oil
Harry Truman
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Bethlehem
19. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.
20%
World Trade Centers
Kibbutzim
Yahweh
20. The year the Balfour Declaration started.
1917
Roman Catholic Church
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Yom Kippur
21. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
Supply and Demand
Dictatorship
Mixed Economic
9
22. Only Power is from the people
1993
Mantle
HImalayas
Popular Sovereignty
23. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Yitzhak Rabin
Soviet Union
10
55% - 45%
24. Congress is apart of what location of power?
desert
Legislative
Arab Spring
Youthquake
25. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
1917
Oslo Accords
Tyranny
1776
26. In the six day war - Israel got what 2 lands from Egypt?
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Turkey and Iran
Indian Ocean
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
27. Tallest Mountains in the World
Battleground between Good and Evil
Eastern Orthodox Church
Oligarchy
HImalayas
28. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?
equilibrium price
Ring of Fire
Limited Government
Africa - Asia - and Europe
29. Israel is about the size of what state?
Mesa
New Jersey
Measurment - 60
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
30. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
Jihad
5 million
2014
federalism
31. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
Egypt - Suez Canal
Bedouins
1967
1964
32. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?
Intifada
Jesus
Judaism
Cancer
33. A holy war
9 years
435
Britain - UN
Crusade
34. The year Communist Manifesto was written
Ten Commandments
Brazil - Russia - India - China
1848
Dictatorship
35. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.
US
May 15 - 1948
Separation of Powers
20 provinces
36. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.
1947
All-Powerful
US
Impeach president and veto president's veto
37. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
All-Powerful
Equator
Saleh
2 billion
38. The UN was founded in....
Mujahideen
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Camp David Accords
1945
39. The conflict between limited resources and unlimited need.
Scarcity
Eastern Orthodox Church
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Irrigation Systems
40. This church was centered in Constantinople.
1947
Byzantine
Eastern Orthodox Church
Equator
41. Arc-shaped region that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf.
Fertile Crescent
Mountains
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Germany
42. Wrote The Wealth of Nations
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Adam Smith
Monotheistic
The Oslo Peace Accord
43. The US owns __ trillion dollars of this wealth.
Southwest Asia
latin
11
Oasis
44. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Yassir Arafat
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Peninsula
1987
45. The kingdom that the jews formed was located here.
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Mediterranean and Red
UN cease-fire
Canaan
46. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?
Khadija
8 kilometers from Sana
24 - midnight
164
47. The capital for the Ottomans
Istanbul
Bay
Law and Government
Judaism
48. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Cracks in the Mantle
Theodor Herzl
Stylus
Intifada
49. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
De Facto
75
Monotheistic
50. How old do you have to be to be the president?
35
Iranian Plateau
350 million
Glacier