White - World History 1 Flashcards
The first caliphate was called what?
Rashidun Caliphate
What country was oil discovered in
Persia
The house of saud affirms to what sect of islam
Wahhabbism
What civilization was first in the middle east
sumerians
What are the 2 sects of islam that split up
Sunni and Shi’a
what created the power vacuum that caused the rise of ISIS
US invasion of Iraq
What year did decolonization start
1946
Who overthrew the shah in Iran
ayatollah khomeini
who promised the arabs independence
Britain
Who won the Yom Kippur war
Israel
How long does China date back to?
4,000 years
China invented what 3 thing?
Compass, Printing, and Gunpowder
Where was Ancient Egypt located?
Just off the nile river
Who buried their kings with gold and other riches?
Ancient Egyptians
What did the Incas come up with?
Roads and walls
Which civilization had a variety of languages?
The Incas
What are the spread out towns in Greece with their own governments and armies called?
City-States
How many dynasties has China been through
13
What were China’s 3 original religons?
Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism
The first written language was what?
Sumerian
What was the name of the tower that Christians built to be closer to God?
Tower of Babel
What are the 5 lromance language?
Spanish, French, Portuguse, Italian, and Romanian
What branch did English come off from?
Germanic
How much languages are there?
6500
How much forms of English are there?
160
How much percentage languages are endangered?
0.43
Which one of these languages are endangered? English, Chinese, or Irish Gaelic?
Gaelic
What is the most known language?
Mandrin Chinese
What was the first discovered weapon?
Axe
What was the Greeks verison of a flamethrower?
Greek fire
What was Americas most used bolt action rifle?
Springfield 1903
A MG 08 was worth how many men?
90
What was the Germans first verison of a flamethrower?
Kleif
Americas most used Semi automatic rifle is what
M1 Garand
The Mg 42 was nicknamed what?
Hitlers Buzzsaw
Thompsons were brought into the war by what American group?
Gangsters
What is the name of the main catergoey of tanks now used?
Battle tanks
What Nukes are used for its fallout?
Dirty Bomb
The terrorist event in Iraq, where 244 people died after being trapped in a burning cinema.
The Cinema Rex Fire
The terrorist event in Iraq cities where four suicide bombers detonated buildings and killed 796 people
The 2007 Yazidi Community Bombings
The terrorist event in Russia where children were kidnapped from a public school. This included over 1,100 hostages and 330 deaths.
The Beslan School Seige
The terrorist event in Columbia where a series of murders was committed by anti-Marxists, the drug cartel, and members of the police force.
The Massacre of Trujillo
The terrorist event in the United States, known for being the worst terrorist event in history at almost 3,000 deaths
44085
The town that became a tourist attraction after 9/11, when the population of 10,000 was tasked with protecting 6,000 stranded passengers for five days
Gander, Newfoundland (Canada)
The priest who was most notable tortured and killed during the Massacre of Trujillo
Father Tibero Fernandez
A Mario Kart arcade game was exposed for having images from THIS terrorist event in its database
The Beslan School Seige
The intelligence group that was blamed for the events leading up to the Cinema Rex Fire
SAVAK
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
When Did the US first land on the moon?
1969
What was the space race a competition of?
Spaceflight capability
When was the first woman put in space?
1963
Who won the space race?
The US
Why was the space race important?
It showed which country was superior.
When was the first space walk?
1965
How many years did the space race last?
20
When did the first animal orbit the earth?
1957
When was the first earth satellite put in space?
1957
