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World Cultures Basics
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1. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state led to Israel returning WHAT -and to Egypt in return for diplomatic relations?
Zoraster
Shiites
Sinai Peninsula
Yitzhak Rabin
2. Halfway point around the earth - where one day ends and a new day begins.
Villages
Turkey
South Tower
International Date Line
3. A huge - many tiered temple.
Anointed
Saleh
Mujahideen
Ziggurat
4. How many people get most of the wealth?
British
20%
Strategic Important
24 - midnight
5. Give an example of exponential
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6. There are __ security council members on the UN.
Pangaea
1978
Baghdad
15
7. A narrow strip of land - with water on both sides - that connects two larger land masses.
Elevation
USA
Zendavesta
Isthmus
8. The court is a part of what location of power?
Judicial
Eastern Orthodox Church
Republic
Gap between Rich and Poor
9. Led the people that conquered the fertile crescent in 1700 B.C.
Arabian Peninsula - Fertile Crescent -Maghreb - Nile Valley - Northern Tier
Scribes
King Hammurabi
Factors of Production
10. The capital for the Umayyads
1258
Damascus
80%
desert
11. What does Medina mean?
City of the Prophet
Pakistani Taliban - Haqqani Network - Lash Kar E Tayyiba
75
Africa - Asia - and Europe
12. Which two hemispheres is the United States located?
Plateau
Western and Northern
1 year
capitalism - global
13. How many years ago were all the continents joined into one land mass?
Theodor Herzl
Impeach+Override Veto
2014
200 million years
14. What is the biggest globalization negative effect?
Taxes
Al Zawahiri
Gap between Rich and Poor
Sea Routes
15. The month that all muslims must fast
Zendavesta
Hajj
Sail and Plow
Ramadan
16. This church was centered in Rome
May 14 - 1948
Arab
Roman Catholic Church
West Bank - Gaza Strip - Sinai Peninsula - and the Golan Heights
17. Forceful attacks in response to an injury
Gap between Rich and Poor
20 provinces
reprisals
Yom Kippur
18. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.
occupied territories
Continental drift
350000
Equator
19. Measured in degrees according to the distance north or south of the equator (being 0 degrees and the poles 90 degrees) [basically circling the globe going left to right]
70%
Pakistan and Afghanistan
Latitude
A nobleman of Russia - Owns land - first appointed by Peter the great
20. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.
Peninsula
OPEC
Capture
Bedouins
21. __ delegates from __ nations met for the International Meridian Conference
Zendavesta
41 - 25
Ahriman
Suq
22. To set oneself' on fire
Self Immolation
Strategic Important
Money and Security
Pull apart and form rifts
23. One anointed by God
Sephardim
Messiah
Ring of Fire
Sunni
24. How many years do you have to live in the US to be a president?
Brookland Bridge
Few Natural Barriers
Written Language
14
25. The meeting where the longitude/latitude system was set up.
International Meridian Conference
350 million
Scribes
British
26. What killed Al Awlaki?
recognize each other
Drone
14
Byzantine
27. Where 1 person/a small clique has seized violent and full power until it is overthrown
750
Ocean Currents
Dictatorship
John Marshal
28. The month/year where the International Meridian Conference was held
Obama - Panetta
Drip Irrigation
Judicial Review
October 1884
29. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state led to Israel returning WHAT -and to Egypt in return for diplomatic relations?
Monotheistic
Sinai Peninsula
International Meridian Conference
plates
30. Important to the world for military and economic reasons
The Great Compromise
Strategic Important
Bin Laden
Indonesia
31. In about 1025 B.C. - the jews formed this kingdom.
Veto
A.D. 70
God-given
Israel
32. The year the ottoman empire fell.
1917
West Bank
Ahriman
Veto
33. This flourished under Roman rule.
Yahweh
Diaspora
Zendavesta
Trade
34. We care because we have gotten threats from AQAP - and even acts such as these 2 terror attacks.
350 million
Wheel
Detroit Plane and Cargo Planes
Water
35. Allows to tap on phones
USA Patriot ACt
200 million years
Jerusalem
Ahura Mazda
36. Defined 'unlawful attacks'
Alfred Wegener
Refugees - oil
Military commisions act
North into South
37. Israel was fearing attack by Egypt - Syria - Iraq and Jordon - so they launched one of these attacks.
Preemptive Strike
Camp David Accords
1973
intifada
38. The first world leader to recognize Israel as an independent nation.
Iranian Plateau
Harry Truman
Marbury v. Madison
PLO
39. Flight 175 hit where?
Nomads
Koran
South Tower
Daylight Saving Time
40. Dictator of Libya
South Tower
Muammar Gaddafi
2 billion
Government
41. Yeme is worried about ___ due to ___ ports.
Islam
Measurment - 60
Refugees - oil
1964
42. How many years do you have to live in the US to be a president?
Steel doors
Oligarchy
Cancer
14
43. These people conquered the fertile crescent in about 1700 B.C.
Gabriel
5
Babylonians
Baghdad
44. In what year will the bric economies nomines become the largest producers of goods?
Theocracy
2014
Shanksville
Epic of Gilgamesh
45. Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occuring in the Arab world.
Anointed
1987
Arab Spring
International Date Line
46. Which ocean isn't in the Western Hemisphere?
Strategic Important
Shanksville
Indian Ocean
temperates
47. In 1994 - Israel and what country signed a peace treaty?
Priests
Turkey
Jordan
Arab Culture
48. The seven continents (hint: alphabetical)
1000
Quraysh
Bin Laden
Africa - Antarctica - Asia - Europe - North America - Oceania - South America
49. In this year - the UN partitioned Israel.
Golan Heights
nonbeliever tax
1947
Mesa
50. The arab world's most poverished country.
Reef
1869
Western Europe - Islamic
Yemen