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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Allows to tap on phones
resolve conflict
Bouazizi
USA Patriot ACt
Africa - Asia - and Europe
2. What was left due to the debris of the buildings?
Cult of Personality
Priests
Cancer
1917
3. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
Globalization
Mesa
Ali
Lebanon
4. Half of a sphere
Baghdad
Hemisphere
Trade
Hajj
5. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
Royal Greenwich Observatory
6
bankrupt
capitalism - global
6. Declaration to re-establish the Jews a home in Palestine
Every Even Year
pay more money
Balfour Declaration
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
7. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Police
Mediterranean and Red
Anarchy
8. Where were the protestors in New York arrested?
Democracy
Brookland Bridge
King Vishtaspa
HImalayas
9. Non-muslim community
Millet
Pope
Harry Truman
Royal Greenwich Observatory
10. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
Republic
10
Khadija
GCC - Saleh
11. Qu'ran literally means this.
Supply and Demand
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Recitation
Jerusalem
12. There are ____ nations - dependent areas and other political regions.
268
Greeks
Ali
2014
13. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
Anti-Semitism
164
Delta
Communism
14. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___
HImalayas
Bedouins
Good and Evil
Six Million
15. To wear the other side down
Popular Sovereignty
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
City of the Prophet
Attrition
16. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
East Jerusalem
A.D. 70
Continental Divide
Iran-Iraq War
17. Individuals own all resources - both human and non-human.
Capitalism
Scarcity
Anti-Semitism
Diaspora
18. Each country gets _ vote in the ______ _____.
Head Waters
Ahriman
Ahriman
1 - General Assembly
19. How old do you have to be to be a represenative?
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Theodor Herzl
25
NYPD
20. Every continent but which two are surrounded by water?
Europe and Asia
latin
Shiites
4 years
21. Called 'the sick man of Europe'
Ottoman Empire
May 15 - 1948
Babylonians
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
22. Jews from around the Mediterranean and Middle East
Yom Kippur
Hajj
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Sephardim
23. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
1869
Monarchy
25
US - Russia - UK - France - China
24. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
Pangaea
Monotheistic
Government
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
25. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.
Seljuks
Ocean Currents
Youthquake
20 provinces
26. The great Muslim military leader that recaptured Jerusalem - he dealt fairly with the Christians and jews there.
1973
10
Europe and Asia
Saladin
27. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
Water
1993
Bedouins
May 2011
28. The law to declare something uncostitunial is what constiutional law?
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Judicial Review
Written Language
Drone
29. Kept the temple records
Judaism
Greenwich - England
Scribes
PLO
30. Dictator of Libya
Preemptive Strike
Diaspora
Muammar Gaddafi
1258
31. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
bicameral
Mandate
Refugees - oil
32. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
bankrupt
Steel doors
33. The resources necessary to produce goods and servaces
Factors of Production
South Tower
Jordan
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
34. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
Britain - UN
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Koran
Elevation
35. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
Anti-Semitism
Kuwait
Money and Security
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
36. What is the majority group in the Middle Eastern countries?
350000
Turkey
Hitties
Arab
37. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
22
1776
Western and Northern
Theodor Herzl
38. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?
New Jersey
24
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Likud Party
39. This flourished under Roman rule.
Cancer
Trade
Taxes
Anointed
40. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
Deserts
Turkey
Oceania
Stylus
41. 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.
Aturuk
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Totalitarion
164
42. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
Koran
Maghreb
Bin Laden
Communism
43. What's the representatives' jobs?
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44. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
Recruiter and Propagandist
Capture
700 people
Benjamin Netanyahu
45. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.
SAudia Arabi
1258
Epic of Gilgamesh
Judicial Review
46. Belief in One God
Monotheistic
Refugees - oil
Trade
Desert Storm
47. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
Roman
Globalization
Money and Security
Jordan
48. Who were called during the fire?
Strategic Important
5
NYPD
Taxes
49. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.
1095
Palestine Liberation Organization
Roads
Supply
50. In May 1948 - the last ___ troops left Palestine.
Yemen
British
1/3
Diaspora