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World Cultures Basics
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1. Most people in the middle eeast lived in small ___.
Law and Government
Villages
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
United Nations
2. If AQ wears the west down with more smaller attacks - the west will have to...
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Baghdad
pay more money
United Nations
3. According to Zoraster - the forces of good were led by this person.
Mixed Economy Systems
Leon Panetta
Ahura Mazda
Ten Commandments
4. Formed an oginazation to promote Zionism.
Theodor Herzl
Battleground between Good and Evil
Monarchy
Oligarchy
5. The UN's purpose was to...
resolve conflict
Golan Heights
nonbeliever tax
OPEC
6. Marketplace
Iran-Iraq War
Hitties
1917
Suq
7. How many representatives are there?
Yitzhak Rabin
Gabriel
435
Germany
8. The internet-savvy youth of the arab countries that have studied in the west are the head of the Arab Spring - so they are called a _____.
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Yassir Arafat
Youthquake
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
9. What was a key factor that defended the Nile Valley?
Ahriman
Moses
Cult of Personality
Deserts
10. Hatred to Jews
Anti-Semitism
Taxes
Oasis
Recruiter and Propagandist
11. Arc-shaped region that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to the Persian Gulf.
Fertile Crescent
Equator
Hitties
North into South
12. The year Muhammad returned to Mecca with a strong army and captured the city.
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
1058
1947
630
13. These protestors in New York want attention about...
1967
Western and Northern
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Elevation
14. Israel's capital
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Islam
Jerusalem
Democratic Republic
15. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
268
equilibrium price
Reef
16. To wear the other side down
Attrition
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
Continents
Zionism
17. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Intifada
Continents
15
18. 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.
Western Europe - Islamic
SAudia Arabi
Monotheistic
Delta
19. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Zionism
Africa - Asia - and Europe
1978
Lifetime
20. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
Egypt
Brookland Bridge
Bay
Alexander of Macedonia
21. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
70%
Strategic Important
Nomads
Pentagon
22. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
Constantinople
Leon Panetta
5 million
1776
23. In 1956 - Israel - Britain - and France attacked __ after it's prime minister nationalized the ________.
Egypt - Suez Canal
Arab Spring
Priests
Zionism
24. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
350000
Preemptive Strike
Flood Waters
Mixed Economic
25. The document that said Britain supports idea of Jewish homeland with right of non-Jews protected
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Every Even Year
Balfour Declaration
All-Powerful
26. Individuals own their own human capital and the government most other - non-human resources
Saladin
6 years
1258
Socialism
27. The year that the UN partioned Palestine into 2 states.
1947
Strategic Important
Zoraster
Oceania
28. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Monarchy
Babylonians
The Great Compromise
Separation of Powers
29. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Balfour Declaration
Ottoman Empire
Hajj
Anwar Sadat
30. The governor of each province that was responsible for collecting taxes and keeping order.
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Satrap
In the atlantic - near iceland
31. The UN's purpose was to...
2 billion
occupied territories
resolve conflict
De Juro
32. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
Britain
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
75
Archipelago
33. The largest nation in the Arabian Peninsula
Balfour Declaration
6
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Saudi Arabia
34. Convert the water from the surrounding seas into fresh water.
Desalination Plants
Flood Waters
Money and Security
Totalitarion
35. Known as 'The Prophet'
Muhammad
200 million years
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Intifada
36. Capital for the Crusaders
Baghdad
Nomads
Anwar Sadat
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
37. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Monarchy
Wheel
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad
38. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Coinage
22
North into South
Sana - Taiz and Aden
39. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.
Obama - Panetta
19
Camp David Accords
British
40. The Phonecians are known as this because they spread the culture of the ancient Middle East across a wide area.
US
Baghdad
Ocean Currents
Carriers of Civilization
41. ___ many people have been displaced due to conflict in North Yemen.
Government
1/3
1917
350000
42. OPEC
Young Turks
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
1453
43. Who was also killed along with Al Awlaki?
Koran
70%
Khan
Young Turks
44. 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.
Hitties
Roads
Island
Deserts
45. The 1993 bombing plan injured approx. _____ people.
Democracy
1000
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Jerusalem
46. Latitude is sometimes called this
435
The Western Wall
Parallels
Epic of Gilgamesh
47. The capital for the Ottomans
Istanbul
Island
Security
200 million years
48. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
Tyranny
Continental drift
Balfour Declaration
1948
49. Qu'ran literally means this.
Recitation
Umayyad
Sunni
22
50. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
Bedouins
15
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
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