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World Cultures Basics
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1. The Abbassid empire built these.
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Self Immolation
70%
Demographic
2. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
Arab Culture
equilibrium price
1948 war
Shiites
3. The Abbassid empire built these.
Supply
Written Language
24
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
4. There are ____ nations - dependent areas and other political regions.
6 months
Britain
Hellenistic
268
5. By this year - Palestinians in the occupied lands had grown frustrated by years of Israeli military rule.
Peninsula
1987
Marbury v. Madison
Longitude
6. Israel captured these lands after the 6 day war.
Revolution
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
7. The kingdom that the jews formed was located here.
anti-Semitism
Canaan
Intifada
Ashkenazim
8. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?
Seljuks
Elevation
Umayyad
May 15 - 1948
9. Half of a sphere
Turkey
Hemisphere
Leon Panetta
Labor Party
10. The center of conflict between Jews and Arabs.
Balfour Declaration
Department of Homeland Security
Palestine
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
11. How much the people want
Reef
Demand
Roman
Anatolian
12. What two orginizations should've protected us?
Darius I
Delta
NSA - CIA
Jews and Arabs
13. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Ungoverned
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Mixed Economic
14. 1st caliph after Muhammad
US
Alphabet
Hemisphere
Abu Bakar
15. Israel Prime minister that was assasinated - and was thought to be the last chance at peace.
Yitzhak Rabin
Aristocracy
69
Veto
16. Current Head of Al Qaeda
Ottoman Empire
Government
Al Zawahiri
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
17. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?
Soviet Union
1964
Greeks - Hebrews - and Christians
David Ben-Gurion
18. In January 1990 - the president of Turkey began filling the ___ reservoir with water from the Euphrates.
Oasis
Aturuk
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Clay Tablets
19. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
Russia
1949
Glacier
1/3
20. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.
Theodor Herzl
Abu Bakar
Baghdad
5 million
21. Man who set himself on fire - started the arab spring
Yom Kippur
God-given
UN
Bouazizi
22. How can congress check the president?
David Ben-Gurion
Theodor Herzl
Muhammad
Impeach+Override Veto
23. 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?
Alfred Wegener
55% - 45%
Ahura Mazda
Seljuks
24. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer
Drip Irrigation
24 - midnight
Khadija
Gabriel
25. What 4 terrorists have died this year - causing Al Qaeda to go downward?
1869
Oligarchy
Menorah
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
26. One of the big Parties in israel - and it believes that businesses should be free of government intervention.
Anarchy
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Likud Party
Khartoum - Sudan
27. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Anointed
Yassir Arafat
15
Maghreb
28. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Police
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
Menorah
1964
29. The last stand for the Jews - it was when the Romans were attacking - and they committed suicide because they didn't want to give up their freedom.
Pentagon
Sueing
Masada
Ashkenazim
30. Congress is what?
bicameral
1964
Mujahideen
8 kilometers from Sana
31. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Northern
Palestine
Capitalism
Separation of Powers
32. A 1 -800 mile thick region of hot mineral matter
350000
Indonesia
Mantle
Muhammad
33. Zoraster believed that the world was this.
1978
Oil
Battleground between Good and Evil
David and Solomon
34. All countries today have this - meaning that they have no economic system that is 100% the same thing.
USA
Mixed Economy Systems
1096
Iranian Plateau
35. The first world leader to recognize Israel as an independent nation.
Ziggurat
Mujahideen
Harry Truman
Deserts
36. Instead of 1 - a small group
Oligarchy
5
Islam
Reef
37. Hatred and fear of Jews
Egypt
1993
anti-Semitism
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
38. What killed Al Awlaki?
John Marshal
Mantle
Drone
Egypt
39. The fourth caliph - muhammad's cousin and son-in-law.
Mosque
Palestine Liberation Organization
Khadija
Ali
40. Israel's two greatest kings.
David and Solomon
Diaspora
57 million square miles
Daylight Saving Time
41. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
Abu Bakar
West Bank
Strategic Important
World Trade Centers
42. How much is a majority on the UN?
9
6 months
Continental drift
Bedouins
43. Capital for the Abbasids
Aristocracy
Strait
Polytheistic
Baghdad
44. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
1917
360
Gospels
Likud Party
45. An organization for many groups which represent the Palestinian people.
Aturuk
United Nations
PLO
Battleground between Good and Evil
46. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
1776
Camp David Accords
4 years
Mumbai
47. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Jihad
Germany
Baghdad
Desert Storm
48. The main principle of Hammurabi's code
Ocean Currents
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
6 months
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
49. The length of a senator's term
6 years
Judaism
Quraysh
Soviet Union
50. Explains the life of Jesus
Germany
Gospels
Marbury v. Madison
Hulagu