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World Cultures Basics
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1. Which two hemispheres is the United States located?
Western and Northern
55% - 45%
Tropic
The Oslo Peace Accord
2. Free social services and education - no taxes
Welfare State
1917
occupied territories
5
3. Where is the mid-atlantic ridge located?
Eastern Orthodox Church
Jerusalem
14
In the atlantic - near iceland
4. 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.
7
Parables
Six Million
Cape
5. How much one buisiness/company has
Carriers of Civilization
1187
Prime Meridian
Supply
6. The great Muslim military leader that recaptured Jerusalem - he dealt fairly with the Christians and jews there.
Egypt
75
Saleh
Saladin
7. The King that Zoraster told about the forces of good/evil
Diaspora
15
King Vishtaspa
Canaan
8. The main principle of Hammurabi's code
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Islam
Southwest Asia
Saladin
9. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.
Gulf
Traditional
plates
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
10. Half of a sphere
A.D. 70
UN
Hemisphere
750
11. NATO stands for...
Roads
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Parables
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
12. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
East Jerusalem
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
De Juro
Cell
13. Water spot in desert
Oasis
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
2 years
A.D. 70
14. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
GCC - Saleh
Few Natural Barriers
USA Patriot ACt
Fjord
15. PLO stands for..
Parables
Kibbutzim
Palestine Liberation Organization
De Juro
16. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
Theodor Herzl
1987
federalism
David Ben-Gurion
17. In 1982 - Israel invaded ____.
Lebanon
Moses
Few Natural Barriers
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
18. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
Hemisphere
Theodor Herzl
Martyrs
1/5
19. In May 1948 - the last ___ troops left Palestine.
Leon Panetta
intifada
Iran-Iraq War
British
20. The year Pope Urban II called for a crusade
Ferdinand de Lesseps
1095
Egypt
Land between the rivers
21. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Government
70%
TSA
Priests
22. The Chief features of the Maghreb are these landscapes.
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Mustafa Kemal
Longitude
Mountains
23. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Canaan
Maghreb
Palestine Liberation Organization
The Oslo Peace Accord
24. NATO
Gaza Strip and West Bank
occupied territories
Persian And Byzantine
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
25. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
1258
SAudia Arabi
Abu Bakar
King Hammurabi
26. This man took over before Saleh re-returned.
Desalination Plants
Ottoman Empire
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Britain - UN
27. The prime minister that met with Yassir Araft in DC in 1993.
Sumer
Priests
Yitzhak Rabin
25
28. Exponential
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
1964
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
29. 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.
occupied territories
Equator
Islam
Delta
30. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
Mountains
750
1258
Anatolian Plateau
31. Why is the arabian peninsula so important?
Oil
Saleh
Sea Routes
Likud Party
32. The Lash Kar E Tayyiba are famous for the _____ attacks.
equilibrium price
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Mumbai
Ashkenazim
33. Israel captured these lands after the 6 day war.
The Great Compromise
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Harry Truman
Monotheistic
34. Only occurs in the dictatorial government - when the dictator uses propaganda to make him look like he's 'super human'. E.G: Hitler - Stalin
Welfare State
Equator
Cult of Personality
Alexander of Macedonia
35. What two orginizations should've protected us?
Martyrs
1258
Saladin
NSA - CIA
36. They have lost control in some cities - so these people had to take over.
Mountains
Police
Executive
Indian Ocean
37. Approx how many people live in the middle east?
350 million
nonbeliever tax
Preemptive Strike
David Ben-Gurion
38. What was the name of the tax that jews+christians had to pay? (A big reason why they converted to Islam)
nonbeliever tax
Jordan and Egypt
1187
Military commisions act
39. How many people were arrested due to the New York protests on saturday?
700 people
Delta
Democracy
Shiites
40. Flight 175 hit where?
Persian And Byzantine
Soviet Union
South Tower
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
41. Mesopotamia literally means...
Land between the rivers
Deserts
350 million
Young Turks
42. Jesus was born here
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Bethlehem
Ottoman Empire
1187
43. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
Wheel
Oligarchy
Fjord
Saladin
44. Where people elect representatives
Muhammad
Republic
North Tower
Southern Yemen
45. What are the length of congress's terms?
2 years
Few Natural Barriers
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
October 1884
46. Kept the temple records
'From each according to his ability - to each to his need.'
Persian And Byzantine
Abu Bakar
Scribes
47. Mesopotamia literally means...
Al Qaeda Central
Land between the rivers
Indian Ocean
Mumbai
48. Kept the temple records
Scribes
41 - 25
British
Oceania
49. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?
Germany
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Mesa
50. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
1096
700 people
Judaism
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