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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.






2. The empire that took over the Abbasids.






3. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?






4. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?






5. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.






6. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.






7. People that travel from one place to another.






8. Israel is about the size of what state?






9. AQ wants the west to go ___






10. Upper river springs - steams - and tributaries. These can refer to continental divides or watersheds. Watershed also describes a region drained by a river.






11. 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.






12. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.






13. Marketplace






14. Marketplace






15. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.






16. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.






17. The word continent comes from what language?






18. The King that Zoraster told about the forces of good/evil






19. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.






20. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.






21. Out of the security council members on the uN - how many are permanent?






22. What religion was found in the Arab Peninsula?






23. First Prime Minister of Israel






24. Middle Eastern nations command vital __ ___.






25. Explains the life of Jesus






26. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.






27. Father of the Church






28. 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 _____.






29. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)






30. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.






31. Who were called during the fire?






32. The most famous leader of the PLO






33. What empire was set up because a rival leader claimed the office oc aliph?






34. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?






35. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)






36. The emperor of the large Persian empire in about 500 B.C.






37. Where were the protestors in New York arrested?






38. Flight 11 hit where?






39. Muhammad's tribe






40. Belief in One God






41. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.






42. This case determined Judicial Review.






43. The month that all muslims must fast






44. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.






45. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Jordan?






46. How many (%) of people are Jewish in Israel?






47. A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water. A channel is wider - if it is shallow - it is called a sound.






48. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.






49. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society






50. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.