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World Cultures ME&I
"The Middle East and Islam" Freshman World Cultures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What percent re Arabs? | 50% |
| How many Arabs are Sunni Muslim? | 90% |
| What language do Arabs speak? | Arabic |
| Where did the Arabs originate? | The Arbanian Penninsula |
| Arabs descended from... | Ishmael |
| were they nomads? | yes |
| Iranians are also known as... | Persians |
| Iran means? | land of the aryans |
| where did the aryans orginally come from? | central asian |
| are they shiaut or sunni? | shiaut |
| they go back____ years? | 2000yrs |
| what language do they speal? | farsi persian |
| what is the chronicles of the king? | an epic poem, |
| how many line in the chronicles of the king? | 40,000 |
| how long ago was the chronicles of the king written? | 250,000 |
| how many years if history does it have? | 1000 yrs |
| What language do Turks speak? | Turkish(Turkic) |
| how many turks are there? | 56 million |
| are turks sunni muslin or shiatu? | sunni muslim |
| are they a secular nation? | yes |
| what is a secular nation? | when the goverment and religious beliefs are seperated |
| from how do the turks get their cultural influence from? | the greeks and the hithites |
| which turks have lead? | seljuk turks and ottomaa turks |
| Who is ataturk? | the first president of the turkey (father of the turks) |
| Do they have a secular goverment? | yes, democratic |
| 1919-1948 israel was... | british palestine |
| what is israel ? | the promise land from god |
| what relgion and culture are they? | jewish |
| what languages do they speak? | hebrew, yi, and yiddish and english |
| What is the Palestian religion? | muslim&christian |
| where is the homeland of palestian? | no homeland |
| what percents is muslin in palestian? | 90% |
| what percent is christian in palestinan? | 10% |
| what kind of authority does palestian have? | palestianian authority |
| how many ppl living in gaza and west bank? | 2 million |
| how many palestian refuges are there? | 2 million |
| how many palestians are living in israel? | 2 million |
| what is the fourth largest ethnic group? | the kurds |
| what is the homeland of the kurds? | there is no independent homeland |
| south east turkey, northern iraq, north western iran, and north east syria are what? | the non independent homelands of the /kurds |
| the us protects who in iraq? | the kurds |
| who do the us protect the kurds from? | saddam hyssem |
| the kurds have been fighting for independence by | gorilla warfare for decades |
| what language do the kurds speak? | kurdish |
| what religion are the kurds? | mostly muslim some christina |
| it is illegal to write kurdish where? | Turkey |
| who changes the kurdish names to their own translations? | the turks |
| how many armenians are there? | five million |
| how many armenians are there in armenia? | over three million |
| who many armenians are there in the middle east? | one and a half million |
| what language do armenians speak? | armenian |
| what religion are armenians? | christian |
| there is a cultural conflict between the armenians and who? | the turks |
| the turkish goverment has twice attempted a what to armenia? | a genocide |
| 1894-1863 how many killed in genocide | 300 thousand |
| 1915-1916 "winter of" how many killede in genocide? | 1 million |
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