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World Cultures Basics
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1. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
Knesset
Executive
Fjord
Impeach+Override Veto
2. NATO stands for...
Moses
Popular Sovereignty
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
1 year
3. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.
Department of Homeland Security
Irrigation Systems
Brookland Bridge
Maghreb
4. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
Saleh
Lebanon
Biased
200 million years
5. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?
Hitties
6 months
Anarchy
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
6. The Umayyad dynasty ended because the __ and other discontented groups thought that being a Muslim was more important than being an Arab.
Ramadan
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Yahweh
Shiites
7. The Hitties are best known for this.
Communism
Fertile Crescent
Iron
City of the Prophet
8. Conquered the Fertile Crescent in about 1500 BC
6 months
Hitties
Daylight Saving Time
Capture
9. Controlled the daily lives of people
9
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
14
Priests
10. What are moving sections of earth's crust called?
plates
Traditional
Zionism
Zendavesta
11. A form of government in which a Deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
Cancer
Theocracy
Mixed Economic
Mecca and Yathrib
12. The main principle of Hammurabi's code
Mixed Economy Systems
Hemisphere
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Millet
13. In March 2002 - Israeli military forces invaded Palestinian-ruled areas of the ____ ____.
Latitude
24
1973
West Bank
14. Free social services and education - no taxes
Khartoum - Sudan
1869
Welfare State
De Facto
15. What are the Islamic people's five duties called?
Ashkenazim
Five Pillars of Islam
Judaism
Gulf
16. Flight 93 hit where?
Shanksville
Arab
Cape
Saudi Arabia
17. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.
Britain - UN
Mongols
Zoraster
2 billion
18. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
11
19. A broad expanse of generally high and flat land - also called a tableland. They can rise up from a lower area - or can be level regions within a mountain range.
Desalination Plants
Plateau
The Great Compromise
Aturuk
20. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
Villages
King Hammurabi
latin
8
21. If AQ wears the west down with more smaller attacks - the west will have to...
360
1058
Theodor Herzl
pay more money
22. Instead of 1 - a small group
Hulagu
Saladin
A.D. 70
Oligarchy
23. The Northern Tier stretches across ___ and ___.
Turkey and Iran
nonbeliever tax
Mixed Economic
Yom Kippur
24. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
Martyr
1/3
1776
80%
25. This man took over before Saleh re-returned.
Jesus
American Troops
HImalayas
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
26. Israel was fearing attack by Egypt - Syria - Iraq and Jordon - so they launched one of these attacks.
Gap between Rich and Poor
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Preemptive Strike
GCC - Saleh
27. The sumerians invented these two things.
Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Sail and Plow
Stylus
28. The prime meridian is located here
Camp David Accords
1/3
Golan Heights
Greenwich - England
29. The month that all muslims must fast
Ramadan
British
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Oil
30. People who suffer or die for their beliefs.
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Taxes
Martyrs
15
31. The first war Israel fought - the day after it was created. Egypt - Jordan - Syria - Iraq - and lebanon are the countries that fought against israel.
Soviet Union
1948 war
Seljuks
6
32. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
Hellenistic
Executive
70%
1869
33. What year did the Jews revolt against roman rule?
30
Theocracy
A.D. 70
Anatolian
34. The center of conflict between Jews and Arabs.
Bay
Palestine
Menorah
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
35. Individuals own all resources - both human and non-human.
Hellenistic
Eastern and Southern
Capitalism
Western Isle
36. The capital for the Ottomans
Istanbul
Shimon Peres
Pentagon
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
37. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Yahweh
Gabriel
Martyrs
Desert Storm
38. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
750
Mandate
Separation of Powers
Canaan
39. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
1.2 billion
Longitude
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Alfred Wegener
40. Which one of the two plateaus in the Northern Tier has a huge population due to fertile grounds and water?
Anatolian
City of the Prophet
4 years
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
41. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
Mandate
Isthmus
Byzantine
All-Powerful
42. President of Yemen
Bouazizi
Ring of Fire
Saleh
In the atlantic - near iceland
43. Palestine is important to Christians for what reason?
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
Mediterranean and Red
Russia
Suq
44. The umayyad dynasty emphazied ___ ____.
Roads
Arab Culture
British
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
45. In this year - the Yom Kippur war was fought.
Democracies
Taxes
1973
1848
46. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.
Arab Spring
Maghreb
Saladin
Roads
47. Would give palestines self-rule - and uproot Jewish settlements and withdraw Israeli troops from occupied lands.
Palestine Autonomy Plan
May 14 - 1948
Harry Truman
Prime Meridian
48. Free social services and education - no taxes
Gap between Rich and Poor
Prophets
Welfare State
United Nations
49. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
Partition - 2
Dictatorship
Brookland Bridge
International Trade
50. How old do you have to be to be a senator?
Labor Party
30
Camp David Accords
Egypt - Suez Canal