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World Cultures Basics
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1. The law to declare something uncostitunial is what constiutional law?
resolve conflict
Judicial Review
Attrition
USA Patriot ACt
2. Israel's capital
Menorah
Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin
Palestine Autonomy Plan
3. Al Qaeda has changed in two ways: More ______ into _____ - went for ____ and ______ attacks.
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Western and Northern
Hemisphere
Moses
4. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.
Cult of Personality
Western Isle
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Camp David Accords
5. The US provided yemen with ___ and ____ - but they kept AQ at bay.
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
350 million
Money and Security
Northern
6. No limits on power
Mecca
Sovereign
nonbeliever tax
Yassir Arafat
7. Settling of Jews out of Palestine
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Diaspora
Popular Sovereignty
Theodor Herzl
8. An example of a monarchy
Mixed Economy Systems
bicameral
Britain
Arab Spring
9. Al Qaeda was formed in..
1989
recognize each other
1947
1258
10. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?
2014
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
11. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?
TSA
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
2 years
18%
12. The year the ottoman empire fell.
LA - chicago - boston - columbus - canada
May 15 - 1948
435
1917
13. A state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible for them
57 million square miles
Bedouins
Democratic Republic
US - Russia - UK - France - China
14. The writings that had everything abut Zorastiranism in it.
Ahriman
Cape
Scribes
Zendavesta
15. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Greeks
Steel doors
16. What are the 5 main physical regions of the Middle East? (alphabetical)
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
630
164
17. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
US
Western Isle
Islam
Ali
18. Water spot in desert
Ten Commandments
6
Pangaea
Oasis
19. What does Medina mean?
The number of computers was very limited in the 1960's - now almost everyone has one.
City of the Prophet
Drone
Khadija
20. According to Zoraster - the forces of good were led by this person.
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Ahura Mazda
Harry Truman
21. How long have these protests in New York gone on for?
Kaaba
Roman
Three Weeks
Biased
22. Wrote The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
2 years
23. Where the geological plates under the pacific ocean meet the plates that form the surrounding continents
Ring of Fire
Jordan
Deserts
Monotheistic
24. Middle Eastern nations command vital __ ___.
Ali
Ramadan
Sea Routes
International Date Line
25. How can congress check the president?
2 years
Sinai Peninsula
Limited Government
Impeach+Override Veto
26. A government in which is ruled by a monarch - such as a king or a queen (it's ruled by 1)
Mandate
1967
New York City
Monarchy
27. Jews from Eastern and Central Europe
Ashkenazim
Southwest Asia
Peninsula
Mandate
28. Religious teachers
Supply and Demand
Saleh
Prophets
Capture
29. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
American Troops
HImalayas
Dictatorship
30. According to Zoraster - the forces of evil were led by this person.
latin
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Anointed
Ahriman
31. President of Yemen
A russian empress that has unlimited power. The czar is the male equivalent
Saleh
Hemisphere
PLO
32. NATO was founded in.....
bicameral
1949
The Oslo Peace Accord
New Jersey
33. In 1982 - Israel invaded ____.
Balfour Declaration
Lebanon
Theocracy
Al Shabaab
34. What is very scarce in the Middle east?
GCC - Saleh
Water
Southwest Asia
United - Beliefs
35. Al qaeda was formed by..
1869
Minaret
6
Bin Laden
36. This economy relies on farming and very simple barter trading.
70%
Traditional
22
Yassir Arafat
37. What is yemen scarce on?
Water
25
Government
Labor Party
38. The 1993 bombing plan bombed the undergroud of the _____ ____ ____.
268
Legislative
occupied territories
World Trade Centers
39. How much the people want
David Ben-Gurion
Demand
1776
Pope
40. Muhammad's tribe
Socialism
Muhammad Ali
Quraysh
Africa - Asia - and Europe
41. A small body of water separated from the larger sea by a barrier of sand or coral reefs. It can either be adjacent to coastline or surrounded by an atoll.
1973
Lagoon
8 kilometers from Sana
1 - General Assembly
42. The kingdom that the jews formed was located here.
Canaan
Inspire
Kuwait
Many Gods
43. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
Iran-Iraq War
200 million years
Theodor Herzl
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
44. What are the 3 questions every economy must answer?
Diaspora
Totalitarion
Zionist
What will be produced - By whom will it be produced - For whom will it be produced
45. Each country gets _ vote in the ______ _____.
Tigris-Euphrates Delta
1000
Mumbai
1 - General Assembly
46. A certain group of people
19
Demographic
Democracies
American Troops
47. How many people were arrested due to the New York protests on saturday?
700 people
West Bank
1973
Russia
48. The year the Balfour Declaration started.
Umayyad
Tyranny
1917
Oasis
49. Mass uprising by Palestinians in territories held by Israel.
NYPD
Bay
Intifada
Democracy
50. The ____ has made a deal to persuade ___ to step down even after 3 decades.
Diaspora
Lifetime
Al Shabaab
GCC - Saleh
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