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World Cultures Basics
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1. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Desert Storm
8 kilometers from Sana
Anatolian Plateau
80%
2. The year of the first crusade.
Mecca
Baghdad
1096
1978
3. Muslim place of Prayer
Mosque
Roman
Impeach+Override Veto
International Date Line
4. Tallest Mountains in the World
Western Europe - Islamic
Cracks in the Mantle
May 2011
HImalayas
5. This country operates the Suez Canal
Oslo Accords
Soviet Union
Canyon
Egypt
6. When are federal elections held?
Yitzhak Rabin
Every Even Year
Messiah
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
7. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Oil
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Parallels
Islam
8. The year of the first crusade.
1096
Messiah
Brazil - Russia - India - China
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
9. Al Qaeda was formed in..
Martyrs
1989
Eastern Orthodox Church
1453
10. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
75
Western Europe - Islamic
Egypt - Suez Canal
Continents
11. Upper river springs - steams - and tributaries. These can refer to continental divides or watersheds. Watershed also describes a region drained by a river.
Head Waters
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Cuneiform
Somalia - Yemen - Russian caucasus - Sahara Desert
12. The Byzantine's capital
80%
Constantinople
Al Qaeda Central
Totalitarion
13. An imaginary line around the middle of the earth that divides norther and souther hemispheres.
Arab
164
Equator
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
14. Wrote Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Martyr
Mountains
Written Language
15. Headquarters for al qaeda is in....
Hemisphere
Continental drift
Khartoum - Sudan
Limited Government
16. Israel's capital
Iranian Plateau
Impeach president and veto president's veto
Wheel
Jerusalem
17. The egyptian leader that signed the Camp David Accords
North Tower
Al Qaeda Central
Sana - Taiz and Aden
Anwar Sadat
18. A part of an ocean or sea that is partially enclosed by a curving coastline. A more fully enclosed body of salt water could be called a sea.
Gulf
1848
Europe and Asia
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
19. We care because we have gotten threats from AQAP - and even acts such as these 2 terror attacks.
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
UN
632
Archipelago
20. Israelis have introduced new technology to irrigate ___ areas.
desert
24 - midnight
11
Plateau
21. Is the measuring point for Longitude
Cuneiform
Prime Meridian
1987
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
22. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
1978
24
AQAP
Intifada
23. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.
70%
Diaspora
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Torah
24. This flourished under Roman rule.
8
Hellenistic
God-given
Trade
25. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
Five Pillars of Islam
Strategic Important
Arab
Democracy
26. How many years do you have to live in the USA to be the representative?
Judicial
7
Russia
New York City
27. A huge - many tiered temple.
Ferdinand de Lesseps
City of the Prophet
Mustafa Kemal
Ziggurat
28. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.
Martyrs
Constantine
24
Scribes
29. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
Prophets
Globalization
Bethlehem
Southwest Asia
30. A river of ice - moving slowly down a mountain slope or outward from its central mass. It stops where the leading edge melts faster than the forward rate of movement.
Glacier
nonbeliever tax
60 minutes
Prime Meridian
31. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
2 billion
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Palestine
32. Measured in degrees according to the distance north or south of the equator (being 0 degrees and the poles 90 degrees) [basically circling the globe going left to right]
Turkey and Iran
Latitude
Monarchy
20 provinces
33. Arc-shaped region that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf.
Fertile Crescent
Diaspora
British
Boko Haram
34. Allows to tap on phones
King Hammurabi
Diaspora
USA Patriot ACt
35
35. Helped the jews escape from egypt
Gap between Rich and Poor
Zionist
Hajj
Moses
36. A triangular-shaped land found at the mouth of some large rivers. So much soil is transported by the river that the coastal waters cannot wash it all away.
Delta
Judicial
Likud Party
USA Patriot ACt
37. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Martyr
Al Qaeda Central
Desalination Plants
Ali
38. A tall - flat-topped mountain with steep vertical sides. Erosion-resistant ones are left standing after all else has gone.
Mesa
Moses
Sea Routes
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
39. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Anwar Sadat
1993
Damascus
Ahriman
40. This is the holiest sight in Judaism - and is remains of the earliest temples.
5
Oasis
Sana - Taiz and Aden
The Western Wall
41. Middle Eastern nations command vital __ ___.
Ottoman Empire
Sea Routes
Villages
Ahura Mazda
42. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.
Khadija
55% - 45%
Menorah
Mantle
43. For what countries does bric stand for?
24 - midnight
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Yom Kippur
Sumer
44. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
Darius I
Constantine
1 year
360
45. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
occupied territories
Longitude
Money and Security
1.2 billion
46. Belief in One God
Traditional
Monotheistic
New York City
anti-Semitism
47. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.
John Marshal
Southwest Asia
1096
Theodor Herzl
48. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
Police
360
Demographic
Ashkenazim
49. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Traditional
200 million years
Shanksville
Three Weeks
50. Many Arab nations - especially Syria - Iraq - and Egypt turned to the _____ for arms and other assistance.
Ocean Currents
Soviet Union
Masada
The Base
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