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World Cultures Basics
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1. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
Shaking
Democracy
2014
1776
2. What's the representatives' jobs?
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3. Sharpened Reed
Germany
1964
1.2 billion
Stylus
4. The day Israel is officially formed
Dictatorship
May 14 - 1948
Mediterranean and Red
Ferdinand de Lesseps
5. Where do you have to be born to be the President?
USA
1917
Sunni
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
6. First Prime Minister of Israel
David Ben-Gurion
King Vishtaspa
Written Language
Sephardim
7. The first civilization in the Middle East.
Clay Tablets
Sumer
Khadija
Darius I
8. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Hulagu
Israel
1917
Mecca and Yathrib
9. No limits on power
Sephardim
Sovereign
70%
Zionism
10. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?
Martyr
Ahriman
Arab
Judicial Review
11. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
Good and Evil
Ottoman Empire
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Gap between Rich and Poor
12. The UN's purpose was to...
Hemisphere
resolve conflict
Mustafa Kemal
Shaduf
13. Grievences of the middle east
United Nations
Pull apart and form rifts
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
1947
14. Capital for the Crusaders
Moses
Baghdad
Balfour Declaration
Minaret
15. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.
Shanksville
Satrap
Palestine Autonomy Plan
Eastern Orthodox Church
16. A body of water that penetrates a coastline. It is generally wider in the middle. It is usually smaller than a gulf - but larger than a cove.
1/3
Yom Kippur
Fjord
Bay
17. Free social services and education - no taxes
AQAP
The Oslo Peace Accord
Welfare State
1803
18. Altogether the continents total about ________ _____ ______ ______
Diaspora
Pakistan and Afghanistan
57 million square miles
Sana - Taiz and Aden
19. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.
Shaking
350000
Mujahideen
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
20. Added 4 characters to the phonecian language
Greeks
Al Shabaab
350 million
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
21. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
1947
All-Powerful
Boko Haram
Scarcity
22. The romans brought this political thing to the Middle East.
Ahriman
Reef
Law and Government
desert
23. Who were called during the fire?
1917
Egypt
NYPD
Crusade
24. The UN decided to ___ Palestine into ___ countries
Khartoum - Sudan
Priests
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Partition - 2
25. A tall - flat-topped mountain with steep vertical sides. Erosion-resistant ones are left standing after all else has gone.
Good and Evil
Every Even Year
Mesa
1978
26. How deep does earth's crust go?
Clay Tablets
Recruiter and Propagandist
Recitation
6-25 miles
27. In March 2002 - Israeli military forces invaded Palestinian-ruled areas of the ____ ____.
Seljuks
1949
West Bank
Hajj
28. Half of a sphere
Oslo Accords
Hemisphere
Five Pillars of Islam
1917
29. Belived that any devout Muslim could become a caliph.
Sunni
Popular Sovereignty
Biased
Diaspora
30. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
Supply and Demand
Stylus
Atoll
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
31. Helped the jews escape from egypt
Anwar Sadat
City of the Prophet
Moses
Fertile Crescent
32. Belief in One God
6-25 miles
Monotheistic
22
Parables
33. ___ forces have cracked down violently on the protests against the president of yemen.
Taxes
Crusade
Security
Turkey
34. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
8
East Jerusalem
Pentagon
5 million
35. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
1/5
Sovereign
Pull apart and form rifts
Ring of Fire
36. Explains the life of Jesus
Gospels
18
UN cease-fire
Jerusalem
37. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
recognize each other
Saudi Arabia
9 years
Drip Irrigation
38. America has been more strict - such as adding ___ ___ leading into the cockpit.
Cell
Maghreb
Estuary
Steel doors
39. How old do you have to be to be the president?
Yassir Arafat
Palestine
35
Messiah
40. What term do people often call the Middle east?
Jerusalem
1453
All-Powerful
Southwest Asia
41. Latitude is sometimes called this
King Vishtaspa
Millet
Demographic
Parallels
42. This case determined Judicial Review.
Supply and Demand
Priests
Marbury v. Madison
1776
43. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
Lagoon
8
Moses
Steel doors
44. Tallest Mountains in the World
2014
700 people
Head Waters
HImalayas
45. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
American Troops
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
equilibrium price
Atoll
46. Factors of Law
15
Republic
Impeach president and veto president's veto
De Juro
47. What was the 'invisible hand?'
pursue in self-interest
Continental Divide
1187
Oil
48. The year the Balfour Declaration started.
Communism
Western and Northern
Dictatorship
1917
49. OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Irrigation Systems
1964
Diaspora
50. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Government
Bedouins
Babylonians
Supply