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World Cultures Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Religious and moral laws
Veto
Ten Commandments
USA Patriot ACt
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
2. A poem composed in about 2000 BC and includes many stories and myth from the middle east.
Kaaba
Khadija
Epic of Gilgamesh
Monotheistic
3. Muhammad's tribe
632
Quraysh
The Western Wall
Jerusalem
4. The capital for the Umayyads
GCC - Saleh
Damascus
1964
Turkey and Iran
5. What's the representatives' jobs?
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6. Under this economic system - all resources - both human and non-human - are owned by the state.
Communism
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Marbury v. Madison
Mantle
7. The first war Israel fought - the day after it was created. Egypt - Jordan - Syria - Iraq - and lebanon are the countries that fought against israel.
1948 war
2 years
Yom Kippur
1973
8. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
Al Shabaab
Lebanon
equilibrium price
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
9. Al Awlaki was the head of ___.
AQAP
Revolution
Plateau
Pope
10. How many countries are in the middle east?
Yitzhak Rabin
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
19
Al Zawahiri
11. A system of government where a ruler has unlimited power not limited by a document
desert
Welfare State
2014
Tyranny
12. What mainly causes disaster in Mesoptomia?
Jesus
Flood Waters
Oceania
Executive
13. The Middle east stands at the crossroads of what three continents?
Yitzhak Rabin
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
6
Africa - Asia - and Europe
14. Settling of Jews out of Palestine
Limited Government
Bedouins
US
Diaspora
15. 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.
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Plateau
1947
Ocean Currents
16. A holy war
435
Ungoverned
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Crusade
17. The UN is headquarters in ____.
1978
New York City
plates
Recitation
18. An organization for many groups which represent the Palestinian people.
PLO
Canyon
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Iranian Plateau
19. The year Muhammad returned to Mecca with a strong army and captured the city.
6
Jerusalem
630
Iranian Plateau
20. What 3 countries have rules been kicked out?
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
Western and Northern
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
Masada
21. Vertical lines meeting at the North and Soul Poles
Umayyad
Longitude
1948
Anwar Sadat
22. What does czar/czarina mean?
Strait
Priests
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
23. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
Yitzhak Rabin
70%
Aturuk
King Hammurabi
24. The King that Zoraster told about the forces of good/evil
latin
20 provinces
King Vishtaspa
Tropic
25. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.
Priests
Camp David Accords
reprisals
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
26. The eastern half of the roman empire -which included Greece - Asia Minor - Egypt - and the Fertile Crescent.
Anarchy
Government
Byzantine
Iron
27. A certain group of people
Eastern Orthodox Church
City of the Prophet
Demographic
1917
28. What was a key factor that defended the Nile Valley?
UN
Mantle
Deserts
Bethlehem
29. Solomon had many building projects - so he made people pay ____.
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
Balfour Declaration
North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation
Taxes
30. The zero point
Monarchy
Egypt
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Soviet Union
31. In this year - the Balfour Declaration was made.
Priests
Ten Commandments
Money and Security
1917
32. The crusadess had a limited effect on the Middle East because the civilization of ___ _____ was less advanced than that of the ______.
Turkey and Iran
Four
South Tower
Western Europe - Islamic
33. If AQ wears the west down with more smaller attacks - the west will have to...
Western Isle
De Facto
pay more money
Bin Laden
34. The conference also voted to adopt a universal world day and a ___-hour clock - based on _______ at the Greenwich meridian.
24 - midnight
Police
Lifetime
Darius I
35. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
Parables
Northern
2 years
Harry Truman
36. Allows to tap on phones
USA Patriot ACt
Ten Commandments
Minaret
Istanbul
37. A holy war
Crusade
Theodor Herzl
Yitzhak Rabin
Cell
38. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.
Hulagu
Alphabet
Ottoman Empire
700 people
39. The current head of al qaeda wants to direct al qaeda towards ____ countries.
Yassir Arafat
Ziggurat
Arab
Hemisphere
40. How old do you have to be to be the president?
Western and Northern
35
Inspire
Quraysh
41. In the Umayyad dynasty - all the highest jobs and the army went to ___.
Yassir Arafat
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Egypt - Suez Canal
Arabs
42. What does Medina mean?
Republic
City of the Prophet
Eastern Orthodox Church
Zionist
43. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
Dictatorship
Villages
bankrupt
Gospels
44. Congress is apart of what location of power?
Legislative
Capture
Cult of Personality
Strait
45. __ delegates from __ nations met for the International Meridian Conference
41 - 25
Capture
6-25 miles
Fjord
46. The height of the land above sea level
Canaan
Elevation
2 billion
4 years
47. The Lash Kar E Tayyiba are famous for the _____ attacks.
Land between the rivers
Ten Commandments
Mumbai
Supply and Demand
48. A market economy is controlled by the forces of ____.
Roman
Turkey
Diaspora
Supply and Demand
49. In this year - the PLO is formed - named Yassir Araft as it's leader.
Judicial Review
Judicial Review
1964
Carriers of Civilization
50. Seven-branched candleholder
Arab
Menorah
9
British