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World Cultures Basics
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1. PLO
Head Waters
Constantinople
Palestine Liberation Organization
Sail and Plow
2. Palestinians believe Jerusalem is the holy land for them for what reason?
Prophets
Continental drift
15
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
3. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?
Sana - Taiz and Aden
10
24
18
4. How much one buisiness/company has
Meridian
Supply
Inspire
Delta
5. A revolutionary group of young army officers
Monarchy
Intifada
Young Turks
1947
6. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Yahweh
Istanbul
Longitude
Anarchy
7. The leader of the Likud bloc that became the prime minister in 1996.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Judaism
Daylight Saving Time
Yassir Arafat
8. The UN's purpose was to...
Canaan
Cult of Personality
resolve conflict
Written Language
9. The UN decided to ___ Palestine into ___ countries
Taxes
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
Persian And Byzantine
Partition - 2
10. What does Medina mean?
Supply and Demand
City of the Prophet
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
Iranian Plateau
11. These protestors in New York want attention about...
Prophets
Gabriel
Corporate Greed - Social Inequality - Global Change
Impeach president and veto president's veto
12. Struggle in God's service
Turkey and Iran
Leon Panetta
Jihad
John Marshal
13. Successor to the Prophet
Caliph
Globalization
Diaspora
Monotheistic
14. Where is the mid-atlantic ridge located?
Baghdad
Kibbutzim
69
In the atlantic - near iceland
15. In the six day war - Israel got what land from Syria?
Golan Heights
Eyes and ears of the king
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Continents
16. What causes volcanoes?
10
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Cracks in the Mantle
1948
17. What 2 countries is the Haqqani Network in?
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Roman Catholic Church
Pope
Sinai Peninsula
18. Instead of 1 - a small group
Oligarchy
Equator
Hulagu
Babylonians
19. A sacred shrine that housed hte images of the many rab gods - and included the sacred Black Stone - a meteorite that the arabs believe was sent from heaven.
Capture
Al Zawahiri
Kaaba
Byzantine
20. 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
Egypt
PLO
Germany
21. After-WWI - Palestine wan under control of___.
Minaret
British
King Vishtaspa
Martyr
22. How many years was the Iran-Iraq war?
8
Republic
SAudia Arabi
US - Russia - UK - France - China
23. The writings that had everything abut Zorastiranism in it.
Jordan and Egypt
New Jersey
Separation of Powers
Zendavesta
24. There are ___ degrees of longitude around the earth
Veto
360
Volcano
Eyes and ears of the king
25. Operates the Suez Canal
1453
Egypt
Mantle
Preemptive Strike
26. The umayyad dynasty emphazied ___ ____.
Arab Culture
federalism
Saladin
1947
27. This war caused because one country had a revolution and tension was received with it's neighbor.
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Turkey
Iran-Iraq War
TSA
28. Political disorder brought by the absense of a government
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
In the atlantic - near iceland
Anarchy
Executive
29. A circular coral island that encloses a lagoon - normally formed on top of submerged volcanoes. (i.e: bikini in the marshall islands)
Jihad
Atoll
Roads
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
30. The Chief features of the Maghreb are these landscapes.
Six Million
Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains
1917
Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip
31. Belief on more than one god
Polytheistic
Communism
Istanbul
Masada
32. Oil has been a major factor In what two regional conflicts?
Land between the rivers
Totalitarion
14
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
33. The USA should care because until peace is achieved - the USA is appeared _______.
Baghdad
70%
Biased
Archipelago
34. Allows to tap on phones
UN cease-fire
Arab Spring
USA Patriot ACt
Canaan
35. Who was the judge for Marbury v. Madison?
John Marshal
Ring of Fire
7
Mustafa Kemal
36. Declaration to re-establish the Jews a home in Palestine
Balfour Declaration
approve treaties - approve president's appointments
Kaaba
6
37. The arabs didn't like Muhammad because they believed in ___ __ - unlike muhammad.
Priests
Many Gods
Shiites
pay more money
38. How much the people want
Demand
Gulf
4 years
1058
39. The grandos of Genghiz Khan - that captured the capital of the Seljuks from them.
19
John Marshal
Hulagu
Baghdad
40. Grievences of the middle east
750
Diaspora
25
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
41. This church was centered in Constantinople.
Executive
Demographic
Eastern Orthodox Church
Shaduf
42. The great Muslim military leader that recaptured Jerusalem - he dealt fairly with the Christians and jews there.
Ziggurat
Golan Heights
Popular Sovereignty - Limited Government - Separation of Powers - Checks and Balance - Judicial Review - federalism
Saladin
43. 3.5 radicals - operate missions.
Cell
diffused - affiliates - smaller - complex
Yitzhak Rabin
Latitude
44. Arab nations attacked on this day in the 1973 war.
Yom Kippur
1 year
Anointed
UN
45. Cooperative Farm communities that many of the Jews that moved to Israel formed.
Yassir Arafat
Refugees
Soviet Union
Kibbutzim
46. Volcanoes also occur in places where plates ____ ____ ____ ____ ____.
Scarcity
Russia
Pull apart and form rifts
Lifetime
47. How many people get most of the wealth?
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
20%
Greenwich - England
World Trade Centers
48. According to Zoraster - the forces of evil were led by this person.
nonbeliever tax
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
Ahriman
Theodor Herzl
49. Not 1 person/group rules; but 3 locations of power is what constituion law?
Moving at an unsteady pace - rapid leaping
5 million
TSA
Separation of Powers
50. Solomon had many building projects - so he made people pay ____.
Mecca
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
Taxes
9