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World Cultures Basics
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1. A narrow - winding ocean inlet that penetrates a coastal mountain range. The steep cliffs that line its route make it one of nature's grandest sights.
Fjord
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
2 billion
occupied territories
2. Al Qaeda was formed in..
Masada
1989
1917
Ziggurat
3. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Jordan?
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Bedouins
federalism
West Bank
4. The culture that blends Greek with the Middle East.
Hellenistic
East Jerusalem
Water
Turkey
5. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
Reef
AQAP
Hemisphere
Northern
6. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Jordan?
UN
Scribes
Shanksville
West Bank
7. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.
Prime Meridian
Labor Party
equilibrium price
Africa - Asia - and Europe
8. Factors 'on the ground'
NYPD
Shaduf
The Base
De Facto
9. Water spot in desert
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
USA Patriot ACt
Israel
Oasis
10. Only occurs in the dictatorial government - when the dictator uses propaganda to make him look like he's 'super human'. E.G: Hitler - Stalin
Cult of Personality
Mixed Economy Systems
30
Pentagon
11. What year was Marbury v. Madison
North Tower
18%
New York City
1803
12. Doesn't rely on natural resources - but on intellectual capital competitive schooling - and the support of both science and technology
1993
reprisals
Deserts
Weightless Economy
13. What is yemen scarce on?
Cult of Personality
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
360
Water
14. How many people of the world live on less than 2$ a day?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
2 billion
Ottoman Empire
15. How much the people want
Baghdad
Demand
Anwar Sadat
Oil
16. What are the senate's job?
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17. Belief in One God
Monotheistic
intifada
Africa - Asia - and Europe
Saladin
18. The Egyptian leader who signed the Camp David accords - shot in 1981.
plates
Inspire
Saladin
Anwar Sadat
19. For several weeks - Turkey siphoned off __ percent of the water that usually flowed through Syria and Iraq
Canaan
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
75
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
20. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
GCC - Saleh
Bedouins
Turkey
Delta
21. The capital for the Ottomans
Millet
Meridian
Ring of Fire
Istanbul
22. This document failed to achieve a final settlement despite great efforts by Bill Clinton in the last months of his presidency.
The Oslo Peace Accord
Popular Sovereignty
Six Million
Oasis
23. How many plates are known?
Impeach+Override Veto
18
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
resolve conflict
24. A form of government in which a Deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
Law and Government
Egypt
Theocracy
1776
25. Sumerians wrote on ____ _____.
75
Clay Tablets
New York City
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
26. What are the length of congress's terms?
Delta
The Western Wall
4 years
2 years
27. What year was Muhammad born?
Messiah
Yassir Arafat
570
Zionist
28. In WWI - the ottoman empire sided with ____.
Continental drift
Pentagon
Germany
24 - midnight
29. Intifada literally means...
Anatolian Plateau
Executive
Shaking
Aturuk
30. Moves the time one hour ahead of Sun time
1947
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
Daylight Saving Time
Mongols
31. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Ten Commandments
8
35
Separation of Powers
32. Religious teachers
Balfour Declaration
1948 war
Prophets
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
33. For what countries does bric stand for?
Egypt
Shiites
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Bouazizi
34. This group's goal was to reclaim Palestine and destroy Israel.
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
PLO
Democratic Republic
Lifetime
35. How many countries are in the middle east?
19
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Hitties
John Marshal
36. Struggle in God's service
desert
Jihad
Carriers of Civilization
Shiites
37. What are the 5 main physical regions of the Middle East? (alphabetical)
Every Even Year
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Canaan
38. What was the biggest thing the Mongols inspired?
30
Khadija
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
International Trade
39. __ delegates from __ nations met for the International Meridian Conference
41 - 25
Capitalism
Attrition
Adam Smith
40. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
1948
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Intifada
1/3
41. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
King Hammurabi
Wheel
Egypt
1964
42. Another word to call Longitude
Al Shabaab
Baghdad
Meridian
Ziggurat
43. This plan was when the United states formed a coalition of American - Arab - and other forces and moved against Iraq by land and air.
Priests
David and Solomon
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Desert Storm
44. Who explained why there was evidence of glacial formation in tropical Africa and why the opposing coastlines of South America and Africa look as if they could fit together?
Adam Smith
Mesa
Monotheistic
Alfred Wegener
45. The umayyad dynasty emphazied ___ ____.
International Date Line
Crusade
Taxes
Arab Culture
46. There are __ security council members on the UN.
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Parallels
plates
15
47. Added 4 characters to the phonecian language
200 million years
5 million
Greeks
24
48. To be a senator - you have to have lived in the state you are representing for how long?
Masada
Mosque
May 2011
1 year
49. Christians comes from the greek word Christos which literally means this.
Anointed
Intifada
Egypt
Iranian Plateau
50. This country really 'owns' the Euphrates.
Turkey
Kaaba
18
Islam