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World Cultures Basics
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1. Only the land-owning people have a say
1258
1 year
Aristocracy
Refugees
2. Congress is apart of what location of power?
Socialism
Water
Polytheistic
Legislative
3. Zorastrianism and Judaism are alike because they both tell the people to choose between ____ and ___
6
Good and Evil
God-given
Head Waters
4. The emperor of the large Persian empire in about 500 B.C.
bankrupt
Darius I
Egypt
Money and Security
5. What does Medina mean?
City of the Prophet
Pope
Jerusalem
Three Weeks
6. The most ancient of the three religions of the middle east.
Judaism
18
Iran-Iraq War
Baghdad
7. Factors 'on the ground'
De Facto
Popular Sovereignty
Ashkenazim
Stylus
8. Belief in One God
Monotheistic
May 2011
Wheel
West Bank
9. Kept the temple records
9
Scribes
Continents
1095
10. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?
Russia
6
Sana - Taiz and Aden
UN cease-fire
11. 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.
750
Lagoon
Judicial Review
Caliph
12. What's the representatives' jobs?
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13. Ocean streams that are propelled by prevailing winds and earth rotation. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise below the equator.
TSA
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Ocean Currents
HImalayas
14. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
AQAP
Lagoon
UN cease-fire
Gospels
15. The 1993 agreement called for Israel to move out of what 2 lands?
South Tower
Babylonians
struggle that each muslim confronts to save his soul - but if a higher authority declares fighting on another nation - you are a jihadist.
Gaza Strip and West Bank
16. How many hemispheres are there?
Balfour Declaration
Hellenistic
Four
Sueing
17. The year that the Abassid Dynasty was created.
Battleground between Good and Evil
Seljuks
desert
750
18. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.
Mixed Economic
Drip Irrigation
1803
Alphabet
19. How many symbols did the phoenician alphabet have?
British
Harry Truman
Indonesia
22
20. The Iran-Iraq war ended how?
55% - 45%
Lebanon
The Oslo Peace Accord
UN cease-fire
21. The sumerians were the first people to use this.
1948 war
Hejira
Wheel
Ramadan
22. Doesn't rely on natural resources - but on intellectual capital competitive schooling - and the support of both science and technology
bicameral
pay more money
Socialism
Weightless Economy
23. Conquered the Fertile Crescent in about 1500 BC
Western Isle
Hitties
Plateau
Arab
24. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.
Yom Kippur
Refugees - oil
Pentagon - Pennyslvania - WTC
Cape
25. Muslim holy book
British
Koran
Knesset
South Tower
26. 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?
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
Adam Smith
Alfred Wegener
Messiah
27. The general that rallied Turkish resistance to the greek addvance.
Indian Ocean
Western and Northern
Mustafa Kemal
Baghdad
28. The man who set out to conquer the world - and ended up conquering Asia Minor - Syria - Palestine - and Egypt. He defeated the Persians.
King Hammurabi
Alexander of Macedonia
Russia - Canada - China - USA - Brazil
Masada
29. What two ethnicities are the most important in Israel?
1000
Jihad
Jews and Arabs
Communism
30. The Phoenicians developed an ____
bankrupt
Mediterranean and Red
1917
Alphabet
31. Tallest Mountains in the World
HImalayas
Diaspora
Written Language
Alphabet
32. Grievences of the middle east
9
1964
Veto
dictatorship - human rights - government corruption - economic decline - unemployment - extreme poverty
33. Which hemisphere is the only one in which Antarctica isn't found?
1978
Baghdad
Northern
Khartoum - Sudan
34. What 4 terrorists have died this year - causing Al Qaeda to go downward?
Osama Bin Laden -Al Rahmand - Younis al Mautretani - Ilyas Kahmir
Mixed Economic
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
bicameral
35. This document failed to achieve a final settlement despite great efforts by Bill Clinton in the last months of his presidency.
41 - 25
The Oslo Peace Accord
All-Powerful
1803
36. Every continent but which two are surrounded by water?
Anti-Semitism
Europe and Asia
Israel
Suq
37. The founder of Chrstianity.
Fjord
USA Patriot ACt
Indian Ocean
Jesus
38. The kingdom that the jews formed was located here.
Canaan
57 million square miles
Egypt
Plateau
39. The document that said Britain supports idea of Jewish homeland with right of non-Jews protected
(They Believe) Muhammad was sent to heaven there.
Balfour Declaration
700 people
Royal Greenwich Observatory
40. Water spot in desert
Brazil - Russia - India - China
Monotheistic
Oasis
Abu Bakar
41. Jews from Eastern and Central Europe
Ashkenazim
Al Qaeda in Pakistan - AQAP - Pakistani Taliban
Iran-Iraq War and Persian Gulf War
Turks - Iranians - and Kurds
42. Turkish speaking people that had converted to Islam in Central Asia before migrating to the Iranian Plateau.
Judaism
Seljuks
18 December 2010 - Tunisia
1/3
43. The person that was killed along with Al Awlaki was the publisher of a terrorist magazine called ___.
Saleh
Seljuks
Scarcity
Inspire
44. In order to be a representative - you must live in the state you are representative for how long?
City of the Prophet
John Marshal
Tropic
6 months
45. The word continent comes from what language?
Shimon Peres
Tunisia - Egypt - Libya
latin
Islam
46. Increasing global connectedness through rapid commmunication and transport.
Globalization
Soviet Union
Pope
1187
47. The hebrews called their god this.
Money and Security
Minaret
Ottoman Empire
Yahweh
48. Either a group of islands or a body of water that has many islands in it. (i.e: the hawaiian islands)
Scribes
Archipelago
Britain - UN
latin
49. Greenwich was chosen because maps based on calculations made at the Royal Observatory were already being used by nearly ______-______of the world's ______ _____.
1/5
three-quarters - seagoing vessels
Harry Truman
(They Believe) Jesus was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth - and was crucified in Jerusalem.
50. The year Muhammad returned to Mecca with a strong army and captured the city.
630
International Date Line
Al Zawahiri
GCC - Saleh