World Cultures: Middle East Review

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$100 Answer from EC The first civilization in the Middle East.

$100 Question from EC What is Sumer?

$200 Answer from EC The five Mesopotamian cultures.

$200 Question from EC What are Sumerian, Babylonian, Phoenician, Persian, Egyptian?

$300 Answer from EC A code of law for the Babylonians that said the punishment should fit the crime.

$300 Question from EC What is Hammurabi’s Code?

$400 Answer from EC Around 334 B.C.E., this leader set out to conquer the world and conquered the Persian Empire.

$400 Question from EC Who is Alexander the Great?

$500 Answer from EC Two accomplishments of Darius I of the Persian Empire.

$500 Question from EC What are: he tolerated diversity, he divided land into provinces that correspond with their homelands, expanded roads, made a uniform system of coins?

$100 Answer from GA Two major components of The Golden Age.

$100 Question from GA What are: increased trade, set up banks, letter of credit, house of wisdom (library, university, etc.), accurate calendar, advances in algebra, medicine, and language?

$200 Answer from GA Where the Seljuks are from and where the Mongols are from.

$200 Question from GA Where is Turkey and Central Asia?

$300 Answer from GA Pope Urban II called for one of these against the Muslims and this was the result.

$300 Question from GA What is a Crusade, and the Christians captured Jerusalem but had limited effect?

$400 Answer from GA The difference between how Saladin took Jerusalem and how the Christians did.

$400 Question from GA What is: he did not kill inhabitants or steal from the defeated, he did not burn Christian homes or churches, and he did not make all Christians slaves?

$500 Answer from GA The Safavid Empire battled this empire to gain control of Mesopotamia and was led by this shah (king).

$500 Question from GA What is the Ottoman Empire, and who is Abbas the Great?

$100 Answer from AI Conflict After WWII, Palestine was a mandate of this country.

$100 Question from AI Conflict What is Britain?

$200 Answer from AI Conflict In 1948, this country was formed.

$200 Question from AI Conflict What is Israel?

$300 Answer from AI Conflict During the Arab-Israeli War, this is the reason the Arab nations declared war on Israel.

$300 Question from AI Conflict What is they were afraid of western dominance?

$400 Answer from AI Conflict During this war and during this year, Israel seized Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt, Golan Heights from Syria, West Bank from Jordan, and East Jerusalem from the Arabs.

$400 Question from AI Conflict What is the Six Day War and 1967?

$500 Answer from AI Conflict The leader of the PLO and the agreement where the PLO agreed to give up attacks on Israel.

$500 Question from AI Conflict • Who is Yasser Arafat and what is the Gaza-Jericho Agreement?

$100 Answer from A & O Afghanistan is a ______ country .

$100 Question from A & O What is a landlocked country?

$200 Answer from A & O Osama bin Laden is the leader of_______ .

$200 Question from A & O What is Al-Qaida?

$300 Answer from A & O Prior to 2001, this group ruled Afghanistan.

$300 Question from A & O Who is the Taliban?

$400 Answer from A & O The definition of OPEC.

$400 Answer from A & O What is an Organization of oil-rich nations joined together to control the price and production of oil in order to end the power that western oil companies had over oil prices?

$500 Answer from A & O The reason why Arab nations put an oil embargo on the United States.

$500 Question from A & O What is Arabs were at war with Israel so OPEC cut off shipments of oil to countries supporting Israel?

$100 Answer from PGW When the Persian Gulf War took place and the country Iraq tried to claim.

$100 Question from PGW What is 1990-1991 and Kuwait?

$200 Answer from PGW A war that was one of the causes of the Persian Gulf War and the years it was fought.

$200 Question from PGW Who is the Iran-Iraq War, and what is 1980-1988?

$300 Answer from PGW The leader of Iraq and the country where Ayatollah Khomeini was a leader.

$300 Question from PGW Who is Saddam Hussein, and what is Iran?

$400 Answer from PGW UN and U.S. responses to the war.

$400 Question from PGW What is UN condemned Iraq’s invasion: trade embargo, and the U.S. led forces against Iraq (Operation Desert Storm)?

$500 Answer from PGW Operation Iraqi Freedom.

World Cultures: Middle East Review