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World Cultures Basics
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1. IThe hebrew's sacred book.
Carriers of Civilization
1/5
Equator
Torah
2. Grievences of the middle east
capitalism - global
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
Iron
9
3. 1st caliph after Muhammad
Abu Bakar
24 - midnight
pursue in self-interest
Judicial Review
4. The egyptian leader that signed the Camp David Accords
Anwar Sadat
plates
Byzantine
Cult of Personality
5. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Babylonians
Quraysh
Democratic Republic
Four
6. PLO
Islam
Sumer
Yitzhak Rabin
Palestine Liberation Organization
7. The year the mongols came to power.
19
Supply
1258
2 years
8. How many justices are there?
resolve conflict
9
Battleground between Good and Evil
Taxes
9. How many hours is in one day?
24
8
De Juro
May 2011
10. Grievences of the middle east
Drip Irrigation
Mosque
Drone
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
11. The Hitties are best known for this.
Iron
Zoraster
Mujahideen
1/3
12. First Prime Minister of Israel
Canaan
David Ben-Gurion
Ottoman Empire
Jihad
13. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.
Recruiter and Propagandist
British
Southwest Asia
Adam Smith
14. While the Hitties rules the Fertile Crescent - The Phoenicians moved to where? (What is it called in the modern day)
Shaduf
Gulf
Strait
Lebanon
15. Zoraster believed that the world was this.
Gabriel
equilibrium price
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Battleground between Good and Evil
16. This empire expanded eastward - and by AD 115 it ruled much of the Middle East.
Turkey
268
Roman
Moses
17. The pres+VP are a part of what location of power?
Glacier
Leon Panetta
18%
Executive
18. The parliament that rules Israel
Kibbutzim
Knesset
5 million
1947
19. 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.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Palestine Liberation Organization
SAudia Arabi
Fjord
20. Capital for the Seljuk Turks
Africa - Asia - and Europe
22
Turkey and Iran
Baghdad
21. The religion observed by the majority people in the Middle East.
Islam
Parallels
Socialism
Communism
22. What term do people often call the Middle east?
Germany
Oasis
Arab Spring
Southwest Asia
23. Individuals own their own human capital and the government most other - non-human resources
Bouazizi
Greeks
Socialism
Mixed Economy Systems
24. A huge - many tiered temple.
Suq
Five Pillars of Islam
Ziggurat
Democratic Republic
25. The last stand for the Jews - it was when the Romans were attacking - and they committed suicide because they didn't want to give up their freedom.
Wheel
1964
Masada
Arab-Israeli war in 1973
26. The height of the land above sea level
Egypt - Suez Canal
Glacier
Elevation
Satrap
27. A deep - narrow depression in the earth's surface - often having a river running through it.
Popular Sovereignty
Canyon
HImalayas
Suq
28. How many people get most of the wealth?
20%
Palestine Autonomy Plan
1453
9 years
29. These 5 countries are the permanent 5 on the security council.
Moses
Cracks in the Mantle
US - Russia - UK - France - China
South Tower
30. Capital for the Abbasids
Baghdad
A.D. 70
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
International Meridian Conference
31. Which two hemispheres is the United States located?
Volcano
Saleh
Western and Northern
Demographic
32. Where do you have to be born to be the President?
USA
9 years
Biased
Island
33. The first world leader to recognize Israel as an independent nation.
1869
Western and Northern
Cancer
Harry Truman
34. The 1993 bombing plan injured approx. _____ people.
1993
1000
Weightless Economy
Strait
35. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?
1947
Jordan
Jerusalem
Persian And Byzantine
36. The Phonecians are known as this because they spread the culture of the ancient Middle East across a wide area.
Government
Sinai Peninsula
Carriers of Civilization
AQAP
37. Defined 'unlawful attacks'
Southwest Asia
Legislative
Drip Irrigation
Military commisions act
38. Hatred to Jews
Capitalism
Attrition
Anti-Semitism
1 year
39. In this year - Camp David Accords were signed.
International Date Line
Mecca
God-given
1978
40. Struggle in God's service
Darius I
Jihad
Bethlehem
Muhammad
41. An organization for many groups which represent the Palestinian people.
NYPD
PLO
Caliph
Water
42. This year was the year The Wealth of Nations was published
Alexander of Macedonia
1776
1947
The Oslo Peace Accord
43. Baghdad literally means this.
Judaism
9
God-given
Roads
44. Dictator of Libya
Prophets
Muammar Gaddafi
9 years
PLO
45. This document said that the congress will have 2 houses - one based on Population and one based on equality.
Continental drift
Suq
Britain
The Great Compromise
46. Most people in the middle eeast lived in small ___.
Supply and Demand
Villages
15
Red Sea - Arabian Sea - Persian Gulf
47. Central Government - state/provincial laws is a part of constituional law?
Yitzhak Rabin
Sana - Taiz and Aden
federalism
Royal Greenwich Observatory
48. Where were the protestors in New York arrested?
Yahweh
Brookland Bridge
Jesus
1989
49. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
Africa - Asia - and Europe
2014
occupied territories
5 million
50. Struggle in God's service
federalism
USA
Jihad
1964
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