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World Cultures Basics
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1. The Arabian Peninsula is about ___ the size of the US.
Democracy
1/3
Zionist
capitalism - global
2. Where the geological plates under the pacific ocean meet the plates that form the surrounding continents
West Bank
Ring of Fire
Oceania
1947
3. Declaration to re-establish the Jews a home in Palestine
David Ben-Gurion
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
Balfour Declaration
6 years
4. The year the suez canal opened
8 kilometers from Sana
Gulf
Judicial Review
1869
5. Pilgrimage to Mecca
temperates
Camp David Accords
Mosque
Hajj
6. A government in which is ruled by a monarch - such as a king or a queen (it's ruled by 1)
Monarchy
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Zionist
Quraysh
7. The year Communist Manifesto was written
Cape
1848
International Meridian Conference
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
8. What are the second - third - and fourth biggest majority ethnic groups in the middle east?
80%
Many Gods
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
9. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
PLO
Kuwait
Islam
1947
10. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
capitalism - global
14
Northern
Attrition
11. The law to declare something uncostitunial is what constiutional law?
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Archipelago
Egypt
Judicial Review
12. According to Zoraster - the forces of good were led by this person.
Diaspora
Ahura Mazda
10
14
13. The sumerians believed the gods were ___.
Alfred Wegener
All-Powerful
Socialism
11
14. In the UN partition - it said that jews would receive ___ of the land - and Arabs would receive ___ of the land.
October 1884
55% - 45%
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
Head Waters
15. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
Zendavesta
Sueing
Desert Storm
Recruiter and Propagandist
16. The 3 main affiliates for Al Qaeda are...
Latitude
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Anatolian Plateau
Sea Routes
17. Known as 'The Prophet'
Eastern Orthodox Church
Hitties
Yassir Arafat
Muhammad
18. How can the Supreme Court check congress and the president?
Equator
6
9 years
Judicial Review
19. Capital for the Crusaders
Yassir Arafat
Baghdad
9 years
Dictatorship
20. Defined 'unlawful attacks'
Military commisions act
Aristocracy
Attrition
Mandate
21. Most people in the middle eeast lived in small ___.
Soviet Union
Inspire
Villages
350 million
22. Landforms with highest elevation
Mountains
Istanbul
Bedouins
6 years
23. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Monotheistic
UN cease-fire
Israel
Abu Bakar
24. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Law and Government
Kibbutzim
Caliph
East Jerusalem
25. Wrote The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
International Meridian Conference
Cancer
1776
26. OPEC
Iranian Plateau
Zionism
Koran
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
27. Instead of 1 - a small group
1978
federalism
Oligarchy
1058
28. Where people elect representatives
Southern Yemen
Greenwich - England
Republic
Fertile Crescent
29. The Lash Kar E Tayyiba are famous for the _____ attacks.
Ottoman Empire
1989
Palestine
Mumbai
30. How many people get most of the wealth?
Lifetime
1917
Aristocracy
20%
31. Where was Muhammad born?
1869
Tyranny
Mecca
Darius I
32. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.
Southern Yemen
Labor Party
1917
John Marshal
33. The UN's purpose was to...
resolve conflict
OPEC
Monotheistic
Parables
34. The PLO leader
Al Qaeda in Islamic Magrad
Yassir Arafat
30
1869
35. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Harry Truman
Gap between Rich and Poor
Limited Government
36. Al Qaeda was formed in..
Latitude
1989
Minaret
1258
37. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.
US
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Monotheistic
bicameral
38. This document failed to achieve a final settlement despite great efforts by Bill Clinton in the last months of his presidency.
Good and Evil
The Oslo Peace Accord
Theodor Herzl
Indonesia
39. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
John Marshal
Desert Storm
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
60 minutes
40. The day Israel is first attacked by 6 ARab nations.
May 15 - 1948
2014
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
Democracy
41. Arab nations attacked on this day in the 1973 war.
Khartoum - Sudan
Yom Kippur
OPEC
Turkey and Iran
42. What year was Muhammad born?
Eyes and ears of the king
570
1 year
Soviet Union
43. The scattering of Jews throughout the world.
capitalism - global
Eastern Orthodox Church
North into South
Diaspora
44. Qu'ran literally means this.
Parallels
Likud Party
Recitation
May 15 - 1948
45. The dividing lines between the eastern and western hemisphere
Equator
4 years
intifada
Prime Meridian and the 180th longitude
46. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
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Islam
630
Assyrians - Babylonians - Persians - Greeks
47. The year the mongols came to power.
Iran-Iraq War
Totalitarion
Iranian Plateau
1258
48. The zero point
Royal Greenwich Observatory
164
Shaking
Zendavesta
49. What religion was found in the Arab Peninsula?
Cuneiform
Land between the rivers
Islam
Zendavesta
50. What was a key factor that defended the Nile Valley?
US - Russia - UK - France - China
Deserts
Alfred Wegener
Bouazizi
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