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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Golan Heights
Gulf
Military commisions act
Pakistan and Afghanistan
2. A system of setting and enforcing rules upon society or a group of people within society
4 years
Democracy
Mountains
Government
3. 3 terror groups that have targeted the US the most are...
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Lagoon
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
4. To promote trade - the persians set up a system of ___.
Coinage
Roman
Theocracy
Egypt
5. Seven-branched candleholder
Menorah
Roman
80%
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
6. President Bush said we would do what to the terrorists?
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Capture
Aturuk
Police
7. Out of the security council members on the uN - how many are permanent?
5
Priests
75
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
8. Hatred to Jews
Sea Routes
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Yahweh
Anti-Semitism
9. President of Yemen
Marbury v. Madison
Globalization
Saleh
Bethlehem
10. Al Qaeda was formed in..
80%
350 million
1989
Gabriel
11. What percent of the earth's surface is covered by oceans?
Aristocracy
Tropic
70%
Alphabet
12. Sumerians wrote on ____ _____.
West Bank
Clay Tablets
Sunni
4 years
13. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
British
1973
Iran-Iraq War
intifada
14. The prime meridian is located here
Moses
Drip Irrigation
Greenwich - England
Kaaba
15. Where the people overthrow the government in power and form a new one
Western Isle
Elevation
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Revolution
16. People who flee their homeland to seek safety somewhere else.
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
SAudia Arabi
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Refugees
17. One of the big Parties in israel - and it believes that businesses should be free of government intervention.
Likud Party
Ali
5 million
2014
18. Controlled the daily lives of people
Anatolian
2 years
World Trade Centers
Priests
19. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?
Saleh
Villages
6 months
Maghreb
20. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
Indonesia
1948
Peninsula
Communism
21. A person who dies for his/her beliefs
Head Waters
David and Solomon
Martyr
Alphabet
22. This country operates the Suez Canal
Egypt
International Trade
1/5
Traditional
23. Individuals own their own human capital and the government most other - non-human resources
Southern Yemen
Gulf
Measurment - 60
Socialism
24. Qu'ran literally means this.
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Recitation
Sinai Peninsula
Mustafa Kemal
25. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
Iranian Plateau
nonbeliever tax
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
latin
26. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
Republic
Veto
Muhammad Ali
International Trade
27. Flight 175 hit where?
1/3
South Tower
British
Six Million
28. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina
5
Hejira
Zionist
Measurment - 60
29. The sumerians invented these two things.
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
Elevation
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Sail and Plow
30. Muhammad's tribe
Quraysh
New York City
Five Pillars of Islam
God-given
31. What was Karl Marx's famous quote?
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32. A simple water hoist
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Baghdad
Shaduf
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
33. Early in the cold war - the soviet union backed communist rebels into this country.
Maghreb
Land between the rivers
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Turkey
34. Non-muslim community
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
1948
Shiites
Millet
35. Most people in the middle eeast lived in small ___.
Mustafa Kemal
1/3
intifada
Villages
36. A certain group of people
Northern
Impeach president and veto president's veto
1803
Demographic
37. Israel is about the size of what state?
Constantinople
Traditional
New Jersey
David and Solomon
38. Blending some elements of both market and command economies in answering the three fundamental economic questions.
Mixed Economic
Ten Commandments
temperates
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
39. The month that all muslims must fast
Ramadan
Darius I
Taxes
Maghreb
40. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer
Gabriel
Drip Irrigation
Kaaba
Legislative
41. Secretary of Defense
Torah
Aturuk
Leon Panetta
25
42. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
American Troops
1949
Strategic Important
Yitzhak Rabin
43. Flight 77 hit where?
Oasis
Turkey
Pentagon
Anarchy
44. Belief in One God
Mesa
Monotheistic
Persian And Byzantine
Diaspora
45. 1st caliph after Muhammad
Abu Bakar
19
Yitzhak Rabin
GCC - Saleh
46. Uprising of Palestines
Germany
intifada
19
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
47. Israel is one of two ___ in the middle east.
Democracies
Mediterranean and Red
Cuneiform
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
48. How many people died from the Mumbai attacks?
Mujahideen
164
Jews and Arabs
International Date Line
49. Includes the North African nations of Algeria - Tunisia - and Morocco.
Maghreb
632
24 - midnight
Water
50. Known as 'The Prophet'
Tyranny
Muhammad
Baghdad
1096