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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Only the land-owning people have a say






2. Congress is apart of what location of power?






3. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___






4. The emperor of the large Persian empire in about 500 B.C.






5. What does Medina mean?






6. The most ancient of the three religions of the middle east.






7. Factors 'on the ground'






8. Belief in One God






9. Kept the temple records






10. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?






11. A small body of water separated from the larger sea by a barrier of sand or coral reefs. It can either be adjacent to coastline or surrounded by an atoll.






12. What's the representatives' jobs?

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13. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.






14. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?






15. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?






16. How many hemispheres are there?






17. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.






18. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.






19. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?






20. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?






21. The sumerians were the first people to use this.






22. Doesn't rely on natural resources - but on intellectual capital competitive schooling - and the support of both science and technology






23. Conquered the Fertile Crescent in about 1500 BC






24. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.






25. Muslim holy book






26. 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?






27. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.






28. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.






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






30. The Phoenicians developed an ____






31. Tallest Mountains in the World






32. Grievences of the middle east






33. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?






34. What 4 terrorists have died this year - causing Al Qaeda to go downward?






35. This document failed to achieve a final settlement despite great efforts by Bill Clinton in the last months of his presidency.






36. Every continent but which two are surrounded by water?






37. The founder of Chrstianity.






38. The kingdom that the jews formed was located here.






39. The document that said Britain supports idea of Jewish homeland with right of non-Jews protected






40. Water spot in desert






41. Jews from Eastern and Central Europe






42. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.






43. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.






44. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?






45. The word continent comes from what language?






46. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.






47. The hebrews called their god this.






48. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)






49. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.






50. The year Muhammad returned to Mecca with a strong army and captured the city.