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World Cultures ME&I
"The Middle East and Islam" Freshman World Cultures
Question | Answer |
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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 |