Geography/Culture
Parallel lines that measure the distance from the Equator (North & South)
What is Latitude?
What is Monotheism?
This country was created in 1948 after the UN Partition Plan.
What is Israel?
What is Permafrost?
The main religion practiced in Latin America.
What is Roman Catholic?
The line of longitude that measure 0 degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The ethnicity that most people in the Middle East are.
What are Arabs?
This Palestinian led terrorist organization resides in the Gaza Strip.
What is Hamas?
This European Country colonized most of Latin America.
What is Spain?
This type of culture places most authority in the hands of men.
Salah, Zakat, Sawm, Shahada, and Hajj are all part of this religious belief/practice system.
What are the 5 Pillars of Islam?
This Stalin led plan aimed to industrialize Soviet Union.
What is the 5 Year Plan?
This ancient civilization settled in modern day Peru and were known for their farming in the mountains.
What were the Incas?
This explains why one side of the mountain has large amounts of precipitation (i.e. rain) and vegetations while the other side does not
What is rain shadow?
This religious holiday is known as the Day of Atonement and Judaism's major holiday.
What is Yom Kippur?
This cartel placed an oil embargo on the United States after they got involved in the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
What is OPEC?
The Gorbachev created policy that focused on Russia becoming more capitalist.
What is Perestroika?
This "European born" ethnic group was the "top" of the social hierarchy in colonized Latin America.
What are the Peninsulares
What is ethnocentrism
This religious holiday requires their followers to fast from dusk to dawn for 30 days.
What is Ramadan?
These "uprisings" led Israel to put up fences around the West Bank.
What are the Intifadas?
This is the government type during Czarist Russia.
What is Absolute Monarchy?
This decree created a "line" that gave Spain eastern Latin America and Portugal western Latin America.
What is the Line of Demarcation?