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World Cultures Basics
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1. What is the length of a president's term?
4 years
Kuwait
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Steel doors
2. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
Oceania
Alphabet
Four
Money and Security
3. How many hemispheres are there?
Roman Catholic Church
Four
GCC - Saleh
Factors of Production
4. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
Deserts
Tyranny
15
De Facto
5. These protestors in New York want attention about...
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Baghdad
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Suq
6. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer
Yahweh
Southwest Asia
Gabriel
1 - General Assembly
7. Flight 93 hit where?
Capture
Reef
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Shanksville
8. Halfway point around the earth - where one day ends and a new day begins.
Department of Homeland Security
Strait
2 billion
International Date Line
9. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
Few Natural Barriers
John Marshal
East Jerusalem
Baghdad
10. Christian Head
Babylonians
Pangaea
Pope
Minaret
11. Israel was fearing attack by Egypt - Syria - Iraq and Jordon - so they launched one of these attacks.
Preemptive Strike
Gap between Rich and Poor
Written Language
Supply
12. The center of conflict between Jews and Arabs.
Palestine
Quraysh
Northern
Sovereign
13. Muslim holy book
Germany
Masada
Koran
1058
14. Belief on more than one god
Polytheistic
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
1000
15. 1st caliph after Muhammad
Written Language
Abu Bakar
Villages
Hitties
16. The scattering of Jews around the world
Diaspora
Oasis
350 million
Mixed Economic
17. Dictator of Libya
Muammar Gaddafi
federalism
Judicial Review
Equator
18. Jihad
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
18
Bay
Recruiter and Propagandist
19. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
1948
Caliph
Continental drift
Desalination Plants
20. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Oligarchy
Strait
Yitzhak Rabin
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
21. In this year - the Yom Kippur war was fought.
Diaspora
15
1973
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
22. This document failed to achieve a final settlement despite great efforts by Bill Clinton in the last months of his presidency.
The Oslo Peace Accord
Moses
1/3
Jordan and Egypt
23. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Jerusalem
Law and Government
Scarcity
Israel
24. Forceful attacks in response to an injury
Intifada
Law and Government
Persian And Byzantine
reprisals
25. Sharpened Reed
Stylus
Greenwich - England
North into South
Judicial Review
26. 3.5 radicals - operate missions.
Cell
Oligarchy
Egypt - Suez Canal
Traditional
27. How many muslims are their worldwide?
Shiites
Hejira
Supply and Demand
1.2 billion
28. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Partition - 2
Government
Democratic Republic
29. The King that Zoraster told about the forces of good/evil
Yahweh
King Vishtaspa
West Bank
Zoraster
30. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
East Jerusalem
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Deserts
Measurment - 60
31. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
Yom Kippur
200 million years
Delta
Karl Marx
32. Pre-WWI - Palestine was under ___.
6 months
Deserts
Ottoman Empire
Supply and Demand
33. Successor to the Prophet
Mixed Economy Systems
Caliph
Ramadan
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
34. The 1993 bombing plan killed _ people.
6
equilibrium price
Balfour Declaration
1187
35. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
8 kilometers from Sana
Saleh
Khadija
GCC - Saleh
36. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
Republic
Millet
30
Turkey and Iran
37. How many hours is in one day?
24
Land between the rivers
1978
Longitude
38. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.
Monotheistic
Drip Irrigation
Capture
TSA
39. A narrow - winding ocean inlet that penetrates a coastal mountain range. The steep cliffs that line its route make it one of nature's grandest sights.
15
Fjord
Mixed Economy Systems
Anointed
40. How deep does earth's crust go?
Monotheistic
Attrition
Mecca and Yathrib
6-25 miles
41. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
American Troops
Separation of Powers
Aturuk
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
42. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
Many Gods
Pull apart and form rifts
South Tower
Saudi Arabia
43. The capital for the Ottomans
Istanbul
Bin Laden
24
570
44. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Welfare State
Marbury v. Madison
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Many Gods
45. OBL was captured when?
Lagoon
May 2011
Polytheistic
Anatolian Plateau
46. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
70%
1803
West Bank
Babylonians
47. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Democracy
Intifada
Caliph
Wheel
48. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Diaspora
equilibrium price
Shimon Peres
49. A government that seeks to subordinate the individual to the state by controlling not only all political and economic matters - but the attitudes - values - and beliefs of its population.
Greenwich - England
Young Turks
Totalitarion
desert
50. What is the length of the supreme court's rule?
Lifetime
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Bouazizi
Welfare State