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World Cultures Basics
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1. The length of a senator's term
City of the Prophet
6 years
Four
Indonesia
2. In the six day war - Israel got what land from the Arabs?
East Jerusalem
Oslo Accords
1917
Clay Tablets
3. How many hours is in one day?
Mantle
Abu Bakar
Ashkenazim
24
4. Explains the life of Jesus
Lagoon
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Gospels
435
5. How many justices are there?
9
Northern
Maghreb
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
6. Israel's capital
1000
Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin
Law and Government
7. The culture that blends Greek with the Middle East.
Revolution
Hellenistic
Villages
Diaspora
8. Why is the Fertile Crescent invaded so much?
Baghdad
Few Natural Barriers
Ali
Arab
9. Added 4 characters to the phonecian language
South Tower
Britain
Youthquake
Greeks
10. The most ancient of the three religions of the middle east.
1949
Gap between Rich and Poor
Judaism
Shaduf
11. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.
Ten Commandments
PLO
plates
Democracies
12. The movement of Jews to re-establish a home in Palestine
41 - 25
Zionism
Many Gods
Ten Commandments
13. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
Islam
Ahriman
British
350000
14. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.
Muhammad
Traditional
Damascus
Bedouins
15. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
1978
Parables
Scribes
Money and Security
16. First Prime Minister of Israel
North Tower
1/5
David Ben-Gurion
Harry Truman
17. For what countries does bric stand for?
Carriers of Civilization
Brazil - Russia - India - China
American Troops
Eastern and Southern
18. In this year - Camp David Accords were signed.
Head Waters
1978
22
Ocean Currents
19. How many hemispheres are there?
Eyes and ears of the king
Four
Stylus
Legislative
20. SC currently has __ representatives - but will have one more in the upcoming election.
6
Jesus
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
21. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?
1989
Limited Government
Parallels
Veto
22. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?
Attrition
Pentagon
Judicial Review
Martyrs
23. This document said that the congress will have 2 houses - one based on Population and one based on equality.
The Great Compromise
Limited Government
Judaism
Sumer
24. The 4 planes hit the ___ - _____ - and ____.
Mountains
Bedouins
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Martyrs
25. What fraction of the population of Yemen in going hungry?
Ottoman Empire
1/3
20%
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
26. America has been more strict - such as adding ___ ___ leading into the cockpit.
Steel doors
Iran-Iraq War
Gabriel
Limited Government
27. Al quaeda means...
1096
The Base
Ziggurat
Stylus
28. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Syria?
Palestine Liberation Organization
Indian Ocean
Golan Heights
UN cease-fire
29. This document said that the congress will have 2 houses - one based on Population and one based on equality.
Crusade
Yom Kippur
The Great Compromise
NYPD
30. The five largest countries in size in order from largest to smallest:
Egypt
Crusade
bankrupt
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
31. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.
Written Language
PLO
The Western Wall
Martyr
32. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Southern Yemen
Pangaea
Israel
1978
33. In the 1980s the US moved to expand free market ___ within the ___ system
1 - General Assembly
Attrition
Indian Ocean
capitalism - global
34. The location Al Awlaki was killed was ______ _______ from ______.
Military commisions act
Sueing
Partition - 2
8 kilometers from Sana
35. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
Peninsula
Indonesia
1 year
Theocracy
36. What is yemen scarce on?
Judicial Review
Bay
Water
Oligarchy
37. The hebrews called their god this.
Muammar Gaddafi
Shimon Peres
North into South
Yahweh
38. Another word to call Longitude
Al Qaeda Central
GCC - Saleh
Meridian
Mandate
39. Hatred to Jews
1/5
Anti-Semitism
Stylus
1848
40. A river of ice - moving slowly down a mountain slope or outward from its central mass. It stops where the leading edge melts faster than the forward rate of movement.
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Glacier
City of the Prophet
1967
41. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.
World Trade Centers
630
United - Beliefs
Separation of Powers
42. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
Leon Panetta
Sephardim
Theodor Herzl
Strategic Important
43. The UN decided to ___ Palestine into ___ countries
Partition - 2
Scarcity
Golan Heights
PLO
44. Allows to tap on phones
Koran
USA Patriot ACt
Anwar Sadat
Pull apart and form rifts
45. AQ wants the west to go ___
God-given
bankrupt
Arab Culture
80%
46. Flight 93 hit where?
Al Zawahiri
Shanksville
Yemen
The Great Compromise
47. In the east of the Northern Tier is the ___.
Palestine Liberation Organization
Jordan
Taxes
Iranian Plateau
48. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
Indian Ocean
1973
Strategic Important
Recitation
49. Capital for the Seljuk Turks
Ten Commandments
268
80%
Baghdad
50. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
2 years
Pull apart and form rifts
Battleground between Good and Evil
Monotheistic
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