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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fertile Desert Area that has enough water to support plant and animal life
Golan Heights
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Oasis
8 kilometers from Sana
2. Baghdad literally means this.
Khan
De Facto
God-given
Babylonians
3. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
1964
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Many Gods
Scarcity
4. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
Aturuk
Ten Commandments
30
Ottoman Empire
5. In 1994 - Israel and what country signed a peace treaty?
NSA - CIA
Ramadan
Jordan
Mujahideen
6. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
Yitzhak Rabin
Menorah
Mongols
750
7. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Anwar Sadat
Mesa
1948
Theocracy
8. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
Executive
6 years
1.2 billion
Iran-Iraq War
9. The fourth caliph - muhammad's cousin and son-in-law.
Kibbutzim
Good and Evil
Ali
Wheel
10. The capital for the Umayyads
Brazil - Russia - India - China
19
6 months
Damascus
11. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?
Pentagon
Ten Commandments
Anatolian
1453
12. A market economy is controlled by the forces of ____.
World Trade Centers
Pope
Supply and Demand
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
13. The fireman are doing what so they can get coverage?
North into South
The Oslo Peace Accord
Sueing
Lebanon
14. This document said that the congress will have 2 houses - one based on Population and one based on equality.
Mantle
Mecca
Martyrs
The Great Compromise
15. What is the length of the supreme court's rule?
Factors of Production
1 - General Assembly
De Juro
Lifetime
16. In 1994 - Israel and what country signed a peace treaty?
360
Jordan
1453
70%
17. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society
In the atlantic - near iceland
1/5
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Government
18. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
Maghreb
occupied territories
AQAP
268
19. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
Mumbai
OPEC
Byzantine
Preemptive Strike
20. Operates the Suez Canal
Iranian Plateau
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Egypt
21. One reason Islam expanded so swiftly is because the arab armies were ___ by their ___ - because Islam taught that Muslim warriors who died in service of Islam would win a place in paradise.
United - Beliefs
Steel doors
Al Zawahiri
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
22. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Peninsula
Law and Government
1869
Balfour Declaration
23. AQIM's enemy
Epic of Gilgamesh
Parallels
equilibrium price
Al Shabaab
24. Earth rotates at approx. __ degrees of longitude.
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
15
Shanksville
Russia
25. The word continent comes from what language?
latin
Anatolian Plateau
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
Flood Waters
26. These protestors in New York want attention about...
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Eyes and ears of the king
1978
Preemptive Strike
27. The empire that took over the Abbasids.
Benjamin Netanyahu
20%
Mongols
Arab Spring
28. How many justices are there?
Palestine Liberation Organization
1776
North into South
9
29. Jews from around the Mediterranean and Middle East
Sephardim
A.D. 70
Muhammad
Ziggurat
30. Wrote Communist Manifesto
Demographic
David Ben-Gurion
Karl Marx
1948
31. Al qaeda was expelled from ____ ____ for anti-government activites
nonbeliever tax
Umayyad
Northern
SAudia Arabi
32. 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.
1453
Ahura Mazda
Recitation
Cape
33. The most ancient of the three religions of the middle east.
Five Pillars of Islam
Land between the rivers
Baghdad
Judaism
34. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
Persian And Byzantine
The Base
pay more money
Preemptive Strike
35. An Albanian soldier who had fought against the French - who became governor of Egypt in 1805.
Muhammad Ali
Yitzhak Rabin
435
Yitzhak Rabin
36. How much of the world's people are Muslim?
Karl Marx
6-25 miles
1/5
Peninsula
37. Who were called during the fire?
35
NYPD
Pentagon
Good and Evil
38. The founder of Chrstianity.
9
Irrigation Systems
Jesus
Ziggurat
39. What does Medina mean?
West Bank
Constantinople
City of the Prophet
Bedouins
40. Arc-shaped region that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf.
Ocean Currents
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
1/3
Fertile Crescent
41. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
Western Europe - Islamic
Epic of Gilgamesh
Africa - Asia - and Europe
42. The continents slowly moving across the melted rock is called
Deserts
Ring of Fire
Continental drift
Battleground between Good and Evil
43. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
World Trade Centers
9
Greenwich - England
East Jerusalem
44. The romans brought this political thing to the Middle East.
Drip Irrigation
Mecca
Law and Government
North into South
45. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Anwar Sadat
Elevation
1.2 billion
South Tower
46. This is the holiest sight in Judaism - and is remains of the earliest temples.
Cuneiform
USA Patriot ACt
Arab
The Western Wall
47. In this year - the Oslo Accords began.
Scribes
Ahura Mazda
Baghdad
1993
48. What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
Kuwait
Jesus
East Jerusalem
2014
49. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___
Government
15
Good and Evil
God-given
50. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?
Daylight Saving Time
18%
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Elevation