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World Cultures Basics

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1. How many years do you have to live in the US to be a president?






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






3. How can president check congress?






4. Known as 'The Prophet'






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






6. 1st caliph after Muhammad






7. After the first war in Israel - ____ controlled the West Bank - and ___ controlled the Gaza Strip.






8. Marketplace






9. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?






10. Palestine is important to Christians for what reason?






11. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.






12. The Abbassid empire built these.






13. The law to declare something uncostitunial is what constiutional law?






14. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.






15. The 1993 bombing plan injured approx. _____ people.






16. Capital for the Abbasids






17. Belief in One God






18. A deep - narrow depression in the earth's surface - often having a river running through it.






19. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.






20. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.






21. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.






22. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.






23. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?






24. In this year - the Yom Kippur war was fought.






25. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?






26. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?






27. The year the mongols came to power.






28. One of the big parties in Israel - traditionally supports more government control of the economy






29. This country operates the Suez Canal






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






31. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?






32. The length of a senator's term






33. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?






34. A holy war






35. A government that seeks to subordinate the individual to the state by controlling not only all political and economic matters - but the attitudes - values - and beliefs of its population.






36. Muhammad's wife - who inspired him to begin telling people about Islam.






37. How much one buisiness/company has






38. Intifada literally means...






39. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?






40. PLO






41. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.






42. What are the 6 constituional laws?






43. The capital for the Umayyads






44. In what year will the bric economies nomines become the largest producers of goods?






45. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?






46. We care because we have gotten threats from AQAP - and even acts such as these 2 terror attacks.






47. How much of the world's people are Muslim?






48. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?






49. Where did the first civilization in the middle east originate?






50. Baghdad literally means this.