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World Cultures Basics
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1. The ancient writing of the Sumerians that at first used pictographs - but then added phonetic symbols.
Alfred Wegener
Seljuks
1 year
Cuneiform
2. A certain group of people
Demographic
God-given
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Five Pillars of Islam
3. Instead of 1 - a small group
Oligarchy
1869
Alfred Wegener
6
4. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
1967
Mixed Economic
Maghreb
Arab
5. Baghdad literally means this.
God-given
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Judicial Review
Al Zawahiri
6. In 1956 - Israel - Britain - and France attacked __ after it's prime minister nationalized the ________.
Palestine Liberation Organization
Southwest Asia
Egypt - Suez Canal
Khan
7. What was the single-continent called?
Judaism
Pangaea
360
Seljuks
8. The first war Israel fought - the day after it was created. Egypt - Jordan - Syria - Iraq - and lebanon are the countries that fought against israel.
Ramadan
Al Qaeda Central
1948 war
Sinai Peninsula
9. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
All-Powerful
Atoll
Yahweh
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
10. What does czar/czarina mean?
Prime Meridian
Gabriel
Separation of Powers
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
11. The culture that blends Greek with the Middle East.
Hellenistic
Demand
1776
Impeach+Override Veto
12. The leader of the Likud bloc that became the prime minister in 1996.
City of the Prophet
Benjamin Netanyahu
Anointed
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
13. A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible for them
Yassir Arafat
1917
HImalayas
Democratic Republic
14. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
Constantine
Hejira
Anwar Sadat
Lebanon
15. Followers of Ali - that claimed only descendates of Ali could become caliphs.
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Shiites
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
16. The four seasons of the year occur in which earth zone?
Biased
Fertile Crescent
Peninsula
temperates
17. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
Quraysh
Six Million
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Tyranny
18. The writings that had everything abut Zorastiranism in it.
Zendavesta
Southwest Asia
Recitation
Western Europe - Islamic
19. A body of land completely surrounded by water. It is smaller than a continent but larger than a cay - a key - or certainly a large rock.
Aturuk
pay more money
Island
Arabs
20. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
David and Solomon
Al Zawahiri
Judicial
Globalization
21. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
Iran-Iraq War
41 - 25
Southwest Asia
Muhammad Ali
22. The year the Seljuks seized Baghdad.
Flood Waters
Mumbai
1948
1058
23. Kept the temple records
Scribes
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Greeks
1/3
24. A broad expanse of generally high and flat land - also called a tableland. They can rise up from a lower area - or can be level regions within a mountain range.
Plateau
Steel doors
Diaspora
1058
25. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Government
Young Turks
Desalination Plants
Nomads
26. The year Communist Manifesto was written
Equator
Harry Truman
Lebanon
1848
27. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
King Hammurabi
Mongols
Impeach+Override Veto
Ahriman
28. How much the people want
Likud Party
Koran
Ocean Currents
Demand
29. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
East Jerusalem
Demand
OPEC
1187
30. The main principle of Hammurabi's code
Soviet Union
1967
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Self Immolation
31. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Cell
Separation of Powers
Demand
Moses
32. AQ wants the west to go ___
75
Atoll
bankrupt
1095
33. To wear the other side down
Attrition
Pope
reprisals
pursue in self-interest
34. Factors of Law
20 provinces
John Marshal
De Juro
Yassir Arafat
35. What 3 main bodies of water is the Arabian Peninsula?
Adam Smith
18
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Egypt
36. There are __ security council members on the UN.
1948 war
Arab Spring
desert
15
37. ___ planes bombed city attacks.
19
Ring of Fire
19
Government
38. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
Mumbai
25
Flood Waters
Sumer
39. This flourished under Roman rule.
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Trade
Every Even Year
Biased
40. Jihad
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Coinage
Leon Panetta
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
41. Solomon had many building projects - so he made people pay ____.
Mecca
Indian Ocean
1 year
Taxes
42. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
Islam
Longitude
Sinai Peninsula
Satrap
43. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
1973
Dictatorship
200 million years
Sueing
44. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
Seljuks
West Bank
Arab
Menorah
45. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.
Roman
Many Gods
Baghdad
PLO
46. These protestors in New York want attention about...
Department of Homeland Security
De Juro
Judicial Review
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
47. For what countries does bric stand for?
11
federalism
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Kaaba
48. A deep - narrow depression in the earth's surface - often having a river running through it.
Palestine
Canaan
1 - General Assembly
Canyon
49. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Iron
Coinage
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
20 provinces
50. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
Knesset
1973
All-Powerful
Theodor Herzl