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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Water
Fjord
Gaza Strip and West Bank
2. The year the ottoman empire fell.
1917
Judaism
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
West Bank
3. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.
Hellenistic
Jews and Arabs
Fertile Crescent
Satrap
4. What 2 seas does the Suez Canal Link
Mediterranean and Red
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Monarchy
Palestine
5. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Shiites
HImalayas
Refugees
Martyrs
6. A market economy is controlled by this.
Hajj
268
Ahriman
Supply and Demand
7. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Jordan?
Roads
New York City
West Bank
1993
8. The UN is headquarters in ____.
SAudia Arabi
Israel
New York City
Police
9. The UN decided to ___ Palestine into ___ countries
Partition - 2
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Messiah
Water
10. What religion was found in the Arab Peninsula?
1947
recognize each other
Adam Smith
Islam
11. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Greeks
Sunni
Ottoman Empire
Anarchy
12. How many hours is in one day?
24
1917
God-given
Ashkenazim
13. Al Qaeda has changed in two ways: More ______ into _____ - went for ____ and ______ attacks.
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Abu Bakar
Steel doors
Three Weeks
14. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Karl Marx
Biased
Egypt
15. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.
1949
World Trade Centers
West Bank
City of the Prophet
16. 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.
Shiites
Prime Meridian
Kaaba
De Facto
17. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?
22
Preemptive Strike
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Diaspora
18. 1st caliph after Muhammad
Epic of Gilgamesh
Abu Bakar
Iranian Plateau
Security
19. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring
Bouazizi
Khan
Attrition
Jordan
20. What are the 6 constituional laws?
Volcano
80%
Mixed Economic
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
21. In 1993 - hopes for peace revived when Israel and the PLO agreed to this accords.
630
The Base
Mesa
Oslo Accords
22. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
Jordan
1 year
6
Government
23. __ delegates from __ nations met for the International Meridian Conference
41 - 25
24
Palestine Liberation Organization
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
24. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Islam
14
Al Qaeda Central
25. A huge - many tiered temple.
Turkey
Drip Irrigation
Ziggurat
Jordan and Egypt
26. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
UN cease-fire
Yitzhak Rabin
Daylight Saving Time
Military commisions act
27. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
750
Brookland Bridge
Judicial
United - Beliefs
28. The five largest countries in size in order from largest to smallest:
United Nations
1967
Kuwait
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
29. How many countries are in the middle east?
19
Alphabet
Yitzhak Rabin
Obama - Panetta
30. A person who dies for his/her beliefs
Shaduf
Self Immolation
Ziggurat
Martyr
31. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Shiites
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Anwar Sadat
Yahweh
32. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
Turkey
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Communism
Ungoverned
33. There are __ security council members on the UN.
Scarcity
15
Mixed Economic
19
34. What 4 terrorists have died this year - causing Al Qaeda to go downward?
Peninsula
350000
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Ten Commandments
35. Tallest Mountains in the World
Villages
Deserts
Torah
HImalayas
36. The empire that took over the Abbasids.
1987
Mongols
Recruiter and Propagandist
Shiites
37. 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.
Island
Limited Government
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
38. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?
Preemptive Strike
Limited Government
Equator
1993
39. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
In the atlantic - near iceland
Alphabet
International Trade
Ali
40. The word continent comes from what language?
Adam Smith
Welfare State
Sumer
latin
41. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.
Irrigation Systems
pursue in self-interest
Jordan and Egypt
Camp David Accords
42. One of the big parties in Israel - traditionally supports more government control of the economy
Labor Party
Totalitarion
Brookland Bridge
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
43. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
5 million
Revolution
Mecca and Yathrib
UN cease-fire
44. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society
Roman
22
Southwest Asia
Government
45. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
Gulf
Prime Meridian
1 year
International Meridian Conference
46. How can congress check the president?
1917
Zionist
Sumer
Impeach+Override Veto
47. These protestors in New York want attention about...
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Legislative
Water
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
48. This country operates the Suez Canal
Refugees
435
Egypt
Monarchy
49. The internet-savvy youth of the arab countries that have studied in the west are the head of the Arab Spring - so they are called a _____.
15
Glacier
Youthquake
temperates
50. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
Iranian Plateau
USA
Three Weeks
Shanksville