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World Cultures Basics
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1. Muslim Fighter
Water
1/5
Mujahideen
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
2. Defined 'unlawful attacks'
Military commisions act
Government
Royal Greenwich Observatory
1 - General Assembly
3. Who explained why there was evidence of glacial formation in tropical Africa and why the opposing coastlines of South America and Africa look as if they could fit together?
Oasis
Alfred Wegener
Kuwait
Shiites
4. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Volcano
Attrition
Lagoon
Anointed
5. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
recognize each other
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Diaspora
1095
6. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Biased
Impeach president and veto president's veto
pay more money
Babylonians
7. When are federal elections held?
Satrap
Legislative
Europe and Asia
Every Even Year
8. Where the supreme power is maintained by the people
Judaism
Monarchy
Obama - Panetta
Democracy
9. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.
Diaspora
Nomads
Tropic
Jihad
10. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.
Diaspora
Refugees - oil
Yom Kippur
Biased
11. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
Limited Government
1987
SAudia Arabi
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
12. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Yitzhak Rabin
Monotheistic
Cell
Maghreb
13. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
Oasis
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Russia
Theodor Herzl
14. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
De Juro
Islam
Minaret
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
15. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Greenwich - England
Gaza Strip and West Bank
16. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?
1/5
1949
Umayyad
Pope
17. The ancient writing of the Sumerians that at first used pictographs - but then added phonetic symbols.
Clay Tablets
Cuneiform
Yitzhak Rabin
11
18. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
24 - midnight
Martyrs
22
Brazil - Russia - India - China
19. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
King Vishtaspa
Shimon Peres
Ramadan
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
20. Capital for the Mongols
9
Baghdad
The Western Wall
Continental Divide
21. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
Ocean Currents
International Trade
nonbeliever tax
Mustafa Kemal
22. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?
Mujahideen
Martyr
6 months
24
23. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Syria?
Golan Heights
Executive
Eyes and ears of the king
Mesa
24. The first civilization in the Middle East.
Sovereign
Sumer
Oslo Accords
Lebanon
25. A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible for them
Democratic Republic
Turkey
Saleh
20%
26. Exponential
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Mujahideen
Western and Northern
27. Marketplace
Arab
Suq
Prime Meridian
NSA - CIA
28. In what year will the bric economies nomines become the largest producers of goods?
Supply and Demand
plates
Monarchy
2014
29. Instead of 1 - a small group
Oligarchy
Mongols
International Meridian Conference
1058
30. The capital for the Ottomans
plates
Continental Divide
Istanbul
Inspire
31. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.
Hulagu
Monotheistic
Arab
350000
32. Latitude is sometimes called this
Parallels
1 - General Assembly
1000
Alfred Wegener
33. The two leading towns in the Arabian Penninsula at the time of Muhammad
Mecca and Yathrib
Socialism
Intifada
200 million years
34. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
7
1947
King Hammurabi
Alfred Wegener
35. Arc-shaped region that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf.
Bedouins
USA Patriot ACt
Fertile Crescent
Sovereign
36. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
International Trade
Africa - Asia - and Europe
2 billion
37. One of the big parties in Israel - traditionally supports more government control of the economy
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Coinage
Labor Party
Minaret
38. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Britain
8 kilometers from Sana
Soviet Union
39. No limits on power
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
700 people
Sovereign
1/5
40. President of Yemen
Saleh
latin
Law and Government
Jordan and Egypt
41. A huge - many tiered temple.
Partition - 2
Executive
Sueing
Ziggurat
42. The founder of Chrstianity.
Jesus
Hulagu
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
2 years
43. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?
Refugees - oil
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Zionist
1096
44. A simple water hoist
Shaduf
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Iranian Plateau
Canyon
45. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?
De Juro
Indian Ocean
Constantinople
1 - General Assembly
46. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
Arab
Six Million
Oceania
Muhammad
47. A river of ice - moving slowly down a mountain slope or outward from its central mass. It stops where the leading edge melts faster than the forward rate of movement.
Glacier
God-given
De Facto
Isthmus
48. In the west of the Northern Tier is the ___ ___.
Muhammad Ali
Anatolian Plateau
Shaduf
Three Weeks
49. What was a key factor that defended the Nile Valley?
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Canaan
Deserts
Yahweh
50. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Desert Storm
Taxes
Shiites
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