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World Cultures Basics

Subjects : trivia, culture
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1. The Angel that came to muhammad during prayer






2. A revolutionary group of young army officers






3. The religious beliefs of the Hebrews is called this.






4. Wrote The Wealth of Nations






5. No government can have all power is a part of which constituion law?






6. Congress is what?






7. Desert Nomads - literally meaining 'People of the tent'.






8. Flight 175 hit where?






9. The month that all muslims must fast






10. In 1982 - Israel invaded ____.






11. Where the goods and the services supplied by the producer equals the goods and services demanded by the customer.






12. The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state.






13. What 2 seas does the Suez Canal Link






14. The location Al Awlaki was killed was ______ _______ from ______.






15. How many years do you have to be an American citizen to be a senator?






16. In what other cities have the protests in New York caused?






17. The persians improved and expanded these built by earlier people.






18. There are __ security council members on the UN.






19. The sumerians invented these two things.






20. What are moving sections of earth's crust called?






21. The resources necessary to produce goods and servaces






22. The year that the UN partioned Palestine into 2 states.






23. Helps protect us from terror






24. Exhausted by WWII ____ withdrew from Palestine and turned the area over to the ___.






25. This flourished under Roman rule.






26. What was Karl Marx's famous quote?

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27. What is very scarce in the Middle east?






28. This roman emperor converted to Christianity and ended the persecution of Jews.






29. The most dangerous AQAP is in ________.






30. In early times - people built these to carry water from rivers to crops.






31. Each country gets _ vote in the ______ _____.






32. Arab nations attacked on this day in the 1973 war.






33. AQ wants the west to go ___






34. NATO






35. What is very scarce in the Middle east?






36. What 2 empires looks at the Arabs as liberators?






37. Al Awlaki was the top Al Aqaeda ____ and ____.






38. Lands seized by Israel during the 1967 war.






39. Upper river springs - steams - and tributaries. These can refer to continental divides or watersheds. Watershed also describes a region drained by a river.






40. One of the big Parties in israel - and it believes that businesses should be free of government intervention.






41. The year the ottoman empire fell.






42. How many muslims are their worldwide?






43. What was the single-continent called?






44. Darius divided his empire into __ _____.






45. Helps protect us from terror






46. The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina






47. What 3 cities have major clashes in Yemen been?






48. Delivers a measured amount of water to each plant.






49. What percent of the Muslims live in the Arab world?






50. Capital for the Abbasids