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World Cultures Basics
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1. A revolutionary group of young army officers
Oasis
Young Turks
Fertile Crescent
632
2. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Khartoum - Sudan
Babylonians
435
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
3. Latitude is sometimes called this
Lebanon
Arab Culture
bankrupt
Parallels
4. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
1803
Military commisions act
30
1949
5. How many muslims are their worldwide?
1.2 billion
resolve conflict
West Bank
Longitude
6. What are the senate's job?
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7. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Meridian
1187
Prime Meridian
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
8. This case determined Judicial Review.
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Marbury v. Madison
Weightless Economy
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
9. Jihad
Mustafa Kemal
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Revolution
Baghdad
10. What is approx number of people in Israel?
5 million
Pentagon
Byzantine
Volcano
11. The tower outside the mosque to call people to prayer.
Bouazizi
Anwar Sadat
Minaret
West Bank
12. According to Zoraster - the forces of evil were led by this person.
1948
Ahriman
19
A.D. 70
13. A form of government in which a Deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
Capitalism
Monotheistic
Theocracy
Democracies
14. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
630
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Hulagu
1947
15. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Syria?
Golan Heights
Carriers of Civilization
Western and Northern
Lebanon
16. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Khan
Anatolian
Totalitarion
17. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
Strategic Important
Al Qaeda Central
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
164
18. How many time zones are there?
24
Soviet Union
King Hammurabi
Equator
19. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
10
18
John Marshal
Oasis
20. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?
Every Even Year
Refugees
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Marbury v. Madison
21. Approx this many Jews died in the holocaust.
25
Six Million
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Pull apart and form rifts
22. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.
Five Pillars of Islam
Anatolian
Reef
nonbeliever tax
23. At the equator - each degree of longitude represents a distance of about ___ miles
69
Oligarchy
Every Even Year
1967
24. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
capitalism - global
GCC - Saleh
Lebanon
Ottoman Empire
25. A simple water hoist
USA Patriot ACt
1917
Mixed Economic
Shaduf
26. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.
US
Three Weeks
Department of Homeland Security
Kaaba
27. Seven-branched candleholder
Capture
American Troops
Menorah
Elevation
28. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
350000
1967
Trade
Trade
29. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
Yassir Arafat
1/3
Demographic
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
30. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Sumer
70%
750
Aristocracy
31. Controlled the daily lives of people
Priests
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
2014
Ali
32. The US owns __ trillion dollars of this wealth.
Eastern Orthodox Church
Brazil - Russia - India - China
11
Nomads
33. One of the big Parties in israel - and it believes that businesses should be free of government intervention.
recognize each other
11
Likud Party
Alphabet
34. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?
Cancer
Oasis
7
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
35. Give an example of exponential
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36. Moves the time one hour ahead of Sun time
Daylight Saving Time
10
Camp David Accords
federalism
37. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
United Nations
1945
Anointed
38. Water spot in desert
Cult of Personality
Germany
Oasis
Palestine
39. Only Power is from the people
Clay Tablets
Popular Sovereignty
United Nations
Hejira
40. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Constantinople
May 14 - 1948
Island
Peninsula
41. Individuals own their own human capital and the government most other - non-human resources
Jews and Arabs
Al Zawahiri
Socialism
Recruiter and Propagandist
42. What killed Al Awlaki?
Measurment - 60
360
Drone
Yitzhak Rabin
43. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
75
75
Hajj
GCC - Saleh
44. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
750
De Facto
Anwar Sadat
Greeks
45. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
Five Pillars of Islam
57 million square miles
Executive
Irrigation Systems
46. The main principle of Hammurabi's code
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
The Base
Hejira
Parables
47. Helps protect us from terror
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Department of Homeland Security
Villages
Money and Security
48. The founder of Chrstianity.
nonbeliever tax
1917
Jesus
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
49. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
International Trade
15
Iron
The Great Compromise
50. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.
US
Weightless Economy
Karl Marx
Seljuks