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World Cultures Basics
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1. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Theodor Herzl
Aturuk
Three Weeks
USA Patriot ACt
2. ___ forces have cracked down violently on the protests against the president of yemen.
Mongols
Security
The Western Wall
Longitude
3. What religion was found in the Arab Peninsula?
Theodor Herzl
Islam
Cell
Egypt - Suez Canal
4. In this year - Israel was formed but was then attacked the next day.
Anti-Semitism
6-25 miles
1948
Menorah
5. What does Medina mean?
City of the Prophet
Muammar Gaddafi
International Meridian Conference
Carriers of Civilization
6. The month that all muslims must fast
Obama - Panetta
West Bank
1978
Ramadan
7. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
Alexander of Macedonia
Dictatorship
OPEC
Jesus
8. Israel has gotten more people due to the break-up of which country?
Soviet Union
In the atlantic - near iceland
Monotheistic
Money and Security
9. What fraction of the population of Yemen in going hungry?
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
1/3
Hellenistic
Island
10. Water spot in desert
Oasis
Bay
2 years
Damascus
11. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
Western and Northern
Anwar Sadat
World Trade Centers
164
12. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
Obama - Panetta
Hitties
Head Waters
John Marshal
13. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
164
Kaaba
Ten Commandments
Zendavesta
14. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
18%
200 million years
1.2 billion
15. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
Executive
International Meridian Conference
TSA
6 years
16. In this year - the PLO is formed - named Yassir Araft as it's leader.
1964
Biased
Darius I
Turkey
17. 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 _____.
pay more money
Jordan and Egypt
Jordan and Egypt
Youthquake
18. Muhammad's tribe
Quraysh
American Troops
Many Gods
Continental Divide
19. These protestors in New York want attention about...
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Iran-Iraq War
Istanbul
Mujahideen
20. This empire expanded eastward - and by AD 115 it ruled much of the Middle East.
Land between the rivers
Four
The Western Wall
Roman
21. A market economy is controlled by the forces of ____.
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
6-25 miles
Supply and Demand
Eastern and Southern
22. OPEC stopped sending the US oil during this war.
South Tower
Deserts
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
American Troops
23. What is the length of the supreme court's rule?
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Lifetime
Leon Panetta
Mediterranean and Red
24. Religious teachers
Suq
Saladin
Prophets
Jesus
25. Individuals own all resources - both human and non-human.
Police
Democratic Republic
1947
Capitalism
26. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.
Demographic
1949
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Irrigation Systems
27. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
pursue in self-interest
1964
Arab Culture
Israel
28. Struggle in God's service
capitalism - global
USA Patriot ACt
Jihad
750
29. How much one buisiness/company has
Head Waters
Supply
Gospels
Egypt
30. For what countries does bric stand for?
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
Ottoman Empire
Brazil - Russia - India - China
9
31. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
Palestine
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Peninsula
Popular Sovereignty
32. The Phonecians are known as this because they spread the culture of the ancient Middle East across a wide area.
Carriers of Civilization
80%
US - Russia - UK - France - China
24
33. Each degree is divided into ___ ______.
Mountains
bankrupt
60 minutes
Monarchy
34. People who flee their homeland to seek safety somewhere else.
Refugees
Epic of Gilgamesh
Karl Marx
USA Patriot ACt
35. A certain group of people
NSA - CIA
Demographic
1947
The Oslo Peace Accord
36. Al Awlaki was the head of ___.
22
Baghdad
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
AQAP
37. The year the Christians were drove out of Jerusalem.
1187
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
Balfour Declaration
Gospels
38. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
Messiah
New York City
1/3
Karl Marx
39. The Abbassid empire built these.
Hospitals - public baths - schools - and libraries
24
Refugees
Jihad
40. Four group of people that ruled palestine before Israel was formed.
Kaaba
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
18
41. Which earth zone is the largest and hottest?
Priests
Tropic
US - Russia - UK - France - China
anti-Semitism
42. The year the suez canal opened
1967
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
1869
Jerusalem
43. A mass of land almost entirely surrounded by water. It is usually connected to the mainland by a narrow neck.
Peninsula
8 kilometers from Sana
Attrition
West Bank
44. 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.
Balfour Declaration
Demand
Glacier
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
45. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
Recruiter and Propagandist
Longitude
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
1776
46. Israel is one of two ___ in the middle east.
bicameral
Democracies
Supply
Aturuk
47. Mesopotamia literally means...
Elevation
Land between the rivers
Masada
1987
48. Israel's capital
Yassir Arafat
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
1948 war
Jerusalem
49. A person who dies for his/her beliefs
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
UN cease-fire
Yassir Arafat
Martyr
50. The fourth caliph - muhammad's cousin and son-in-law.
Shimon Peres
Executive
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ali