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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Religious and moral laws
Jews and Arabs
Martyrs
Ten Commandments
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
2. Qu'ran literally means this.
Shaking
35
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Recitation
3. A certain group of people
Equator
Egypt
Islam
Demographic
4. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
41 - 25
Soviet Union
Britain - UN
Police
5. The day Israel is first attacked by 6 ARab nations.
Maghreb
Many Gods
19
May 15 - 1948
6. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Greenwich - England
Judaism
10
Strait
7. Marketplace
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
570
All-Powerful
Suq
8. Another word to call Longitude
Meridian
Aristocracy
1803
Eastern and Southern
9. PLO
Umayyad
Palestine Liberation Organization
Baghdad
20 provinces
10. An example of a monarchy
Military commisions act
Britain
Democracy
Pentagon
11. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
15
35
6 years
Many Gods
12. What's the representatives' jobs?
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13. In March 2002 - Israeli military forces invaded Palestinian-ruled areas of the ____ ____.
Harry Truman
Desalination Plants
West Bank
Gabriel
14. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
Diaspora
Cuneiform
Refugees
1/5
15. How many time zones are there?
24
Capitalism
Seljuks
1945
16. An ocean inlet that merges with the mouth of a river - varies according to river flow and ocean tides.
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Estuary
Alfred Wegener
200 million years
17. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
Byzantine
anti-Semitism
15
Balfour Declaration
18. What was the name of the tax that jews+christians had to pay? (A big reason why they converted to Islam)
7
nonbeliever tax
The Great Compromise
Peninsula
19. Muhammad died in this year.
632
Muhammad Ali
Menorah
International Date Line
20. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
Saladin
Southern Yemen
Roman
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
21. How old do you have to be to be the president?
Police
35
Pangaea
Self Immolation
22. In this year - the PLO is formed - named Yassir Araft as it's leader.
intifada
9
British
1964
23. A territory that was administered but not owned by a member of the League of Nations.
Turkey
Partition - 2
Strait
Mandate
24. The word continent comes from what language?
Steel doors
latin
Six Million
SAudia Arabi
25. What year did the Jews revolt against roman rule?
A.D. 70
Jews and Arabs
Pope
Refugees - oil
26. How many hours is in one day?
Egypt
24
11
British
27. How much the people want
Demand
Russia
Land between the rivers
Anarchy
28. A narrow - winding ocean inlet that penetrates a coastal mountain range. The steep cliffs that line its route make it one of nature's grandest sights.
Gospels
Flood Waters
Parallels
Fjord
29. Exponential
Judicial Review
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
268
30. The umayyad dynasty emphazied ___ ____.
24 - midnight
Globalization
Yassir Arafat
Arab Culture
31. OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Continental drift
Jews and Arabs
Moses
32. Halfway point around the earth - where one day ends and a new day begins.
British
Revolution
International Date Line
World Trade Centers
33. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
Martyrs
Golan Heights
Continental Divide
Diaspora
34. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
British
Judaism
Mecca
6 years
35. Hatred and fear of Jews
Obama - Panetta
anti-Semitism
Sinai Peninsula
Brazil - Russia - India - China
36. What are the second - third - and fourth biggest majority ethnic groups in the middle east?
Egypt - Suez Canal
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Intifada
Ring of Fire
37. Flight 11 hit where?
Battleground between Good and Evil
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
North Tower
Many Gods
38. Where the geological plates under the pacific ocean meet the plates that form the surrounding continents
New York City
UN
Sea Routes
Ring of Fire
39. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
Roads
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Northern
Oligarchy
40. Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occuring in the Arab world.
Anwar Sadat
Yassir Arafat
Prophets
Arab Spring
41. What 2 seas does the Suez Canal Link
Baghdad
Mediterranean and Red
federalism
Sovereign
42. The year the ottoman empire fell.
Executive
1917
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
recognize each other
43. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
The Oslo Peace Accord
1947
Millet
Anwar Sadat
44. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
360
1/3
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
UN
45. Jesus was born here
350 million
Darius I
Bethlehem
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
46. One of the big parties in Israel - traditionally supports more government control of the economy
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
1967
Labor Party
The Oslo Peace Accord
47. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Gabriel
Communism
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Attrition
48. What are the 5 main physical regions of the Middle East? (alphabetical)
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
19
Caliph
1/3
49. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
Diaspora
Eastern Orthodox Church
International Date Line
Saudi Arabia
50. America has been more strict - such as adding ___ ___ leading into the cockpit.
Parallels
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Good and Evil
Steel doors