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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)
Islam
Lebanon
1000
Egypt
2. What killed Al Awlaki?
Ahriman
Indian Ocean
Drone
18%
3. What year was Muhammad born?
570
Law and Government
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
King Vishtaspa
4. What was a key factor that defended the Nile Valley?
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Deserts
Mujahideen
Oasis
5. A triangular-shaped land found at the mouth of some large rivers. So much soil is transported by the river that the coastal waters cannot wash it all away.
Jerusalem
Delta
Plateau
Villages
6. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
Shimon Peres
Indian Ocean
New Jersey
Kaaba
7. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Many Gods
1096
35
Oceania
8. OPEC stopped sending the US oil during this war.
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Messiah
Trade
20%
9. Helped the jews escape from egypt
Moses
1948
Totalitarion
2014
10. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.
Six Million
Estuary
Diaspora
5
11. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.
Strait
temperates
Tyranny
Dictatorship
12. The __ helped Israel during the Cold War.
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Intifada
Weightless Economy
US
13. A narrow - low ridge of rock - or more commonly of coral - that is connected to a coast or lies off a coast.
Reef
Al Zawahiri
Scarcity
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
14. 3 Characteristics of a boyar
18
Oil
Mosque
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
15. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
Lagoon
Ali
Bedouins
Democratic Republic
16. The height of the land above sea level
Ocean Currents
Elevation
occupied territories
Mosque
17. Approx how many people live in the middle east?
1917
350 million
Judaism
9
18. The architect for the Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps
South Tower
David Ben-Gurion
British
19. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
OPEC
30
John Marshal
Jihad
20. The arab world's most poverished country.
Supply and Demand
Yemen
Continents
Quraysh
21. Flight 11 hit where?
North Tower
Britain - UN
Oasis
Three Weeks
22. The year the mongols came to power.
1258
14
Palestine Liberation Organization
Delta
23. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
anti-Semitism
Capitalism
Preemptive Strike
360
24. The year the Balfour Declaration started.
1917
Abu Bakar
Alfred Wegener
Anatolian
25. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?
Mixed Economic
Marbury v. Madison
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Canyon
26. In 1982 - Israel invaded ____.
Lebanon
Flood Waters
Maghreb
International Meridian Conference
27. Moves the time one hour ahead of Sun time
Yitzhak Rabin
Egypt
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Daylight Saving Time
28. How many years do you have to live in the USA to be the representative?
Monarchy
Demand
7
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
29. Al Qaeda was formed in..
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
1989
Welfare State
Epic of Gilgamesh
30. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
Young Turks
Wheel
Scribes
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
31. Explains the life of Jesus
18%
Gospels
temperates
Saudi Arabia
32. The great Muslim military leader that recaptured Jerusalem - he dealt fairly with the Christians and jews there.
Continental Divide
Daylight Saving Time
1973
Saladin
33. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.
Desert Storm
Southwest Asia
Irrigation Systems
Diaspora
34. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
75
Southern Yemen
Socialism
80%
35. A point of land extending into the sea. It is usually smaller than a peninsula - mountainous ones are sometimes called a promontory or a headline.
Cape
West Bank
Daylight Saving Time
Balfour Declaration
36. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
Parallels
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Mecca and Yathrib
Pull apart and form rifts
37. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Mongols
350000
Shiites
Monotheistic
38. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Fertile Crescent
Government
Judaism
39. How many representatives are there?
1917
Yassir Arafat
1964
435
40. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Kibbutzim
UN cease-fire
6
1776
41. The main principle of Hammurabi's code
HImalayas
reprisals
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Yitzhak Rabin
42. The day Israel is officially formed
Ungoverned
Shiites
May 14 - 1948
70%
43. The prime meridian is located here
18%
14
Greenwich - England
Balfour Declaration
44. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
UN cease-fire
Alexander of Macedonia
Leon Panetta
American Troops
45. Struggle in God's service
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Jihad
9 years
King Hammurabi
46. In 1993 - hopes for peace revived when Israel and the PLO agreed to this accords.
Baghdad
Mecca
Oslo Accords
Balfour Declaration
47. Intifada literally means...
City of the Prophet
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Shaking
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
48. What is approx number of people in Israel?
5 million
Jordan
Ahriman
Europe and Asia
49. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Kaaba
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Trade
50. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
Villages
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Pentagon
Alexander of Macedonia