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World Cultures Basics
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1. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
Island
Muhammad
Lebanon
24
2. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
1967
Mediterranean and Red
Shiites
Coinage
3. After the first war in Israel - ____ controlled the West Bank - and ___ controlled the Gaza Strip.
Clay Tablets
Turkey
1947
Jordan and Egypt
4. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Many Gods
Pangaea
Africa - Asia - and Europe
5. The USA should care because until peace is achieved - the USA is appeared _______.
Scarcity
Biased
Diaspora
1848
6. The Main idea in a civilization
desert
Four
Parables
Written Language
7. How old do you have to be to be the president?
Desalination Plants
Judaism
Maghreb
35
8. Pilgrimage to Mecca
Hajj
Soviet Union
US
7
9. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Yitzhak Rabin
70%
20%
Karl Marx
10. How many muslims are their worldwide?
1.2 billion
Jesus
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
10
11. Where people elect representatives
Republic
Supply and Demand
Equator
reprisals
12. The zero point
Royal Greenwich Observatory
5
6 months
Gospels
13. Wrote The Wealth of Nations
Jerusalem
Equator
Adam Smith
1848
14. What is the length of a president's term?
USA Patriot ACt
Jerusalem
4 years
Kaaba
15. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Demand
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Germany
Wheel
16. A tall - flat-topped mountain with steep vertical sides. Erosion-resistant ones are left standing after all else has gone.
Popular Sovereignty
bicameral
Fertile Crescent
Mesa
17. PLO stands for..
Palestine Liberation Organization
Islam
Oasis
Limited Government
18. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
630
24
1973
Saudi Arabia
19. PLO stands for..
Palestine Liberation Organization
Globalization
Knesset
1989
20. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Tropic
Drip Irrigation
Partition - 2
20 provinces
21. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Prime Meridian
In the atlantic - near iceland
Island
19
22. 3 Characteristics of a boyar
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
Traditional
Demographic
October 1884
23. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Hitties
350000
632
24. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
80%
Lebanon
6
Intifada
25. In this year - a third Arab-Israeli war occurred - and laster six days.
Water
570
8
1967
26. The year the Seljuks seized Baghdad.
Sinai Peninsula
Peninsula
1058
Lifetime
27. Kept the temple records
King Hammurabi
Scribes
435
May 2011
28. Latitude is sometimes called this
Palestine Liberation Organization
Police
Parallels
18
29. Al Awlaki was the head of ___.
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Theocracy
Democracies
AQAP
30. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.
Fertile Crescent
Youthquake
Longitude
6
31. The day Israel is officially formed
6-25 miles
Mustafa Kemal
May 14 - 1948
Boko Haram
32. The month/year where the International Meridian Conference was held
Bin Laden
Sumer
Mandate
October 1884
33. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
equilibrium price
Palestine
Democracies
34. ___ planes bombed city attacks.
Leon Panetta
Government
Turkey
75
35. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
1993
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Bay
36. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
Arabs
Monotheistic
Babylonians
Intifada
37. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Desalination Plants
Al Zawahiri
2 years
38. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Equator
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Equator
39. Factors of Law
Pangaea
De Juro
2 billion
1/5
40. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
City of the Prophet
Turkey
John Marshal
41. Al Awlaki was the head of ___.
US
Preemptive Strike
70%
AQAP
42. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Oasis
Babylonians
Cuneiform
14
43. What are the length of congress's terms?
A.D. 70
2 years
Security
De Facto
44. Upper river springs - steams - and tributaries. These can refer to continental divides or watersheds. Watershed also describes a region drained by a river.
Head Waters
Eastern and Southern
Cape
11
45. 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?
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Sumer
Alfred Wegener
Welfare State
46. In this year - the PLO is formed - named Yassir Araft as it's leader.
1964
reprisals
1/5
Few Natural Barriers
47. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)
Many Gods
Marbury v. Madison
Archipelago
North into South
48. How many countries are in the middle east?
1869
Karl Marx
Western and Northern
19
49. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Police
Prime Meridian
350 million
Money and Security
50. A 1 -800 mile thick region of hot mineral matter
International Meridian Conference
24
Mantle
Gospels
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