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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
purdah
new deal
parliament
dharma
2. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
Homo sapiens
shah
intifada
great lap forward
3. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
shogun
neolithic age
millet
griot
4. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
diaspora
anthropology
loess
monsoon
5. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
specialization of labor
constitutional monarchy
usury
fourteen points
6. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
shogun
conservative
ethnic cleansing
Shiva
7. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
karma
Hagia Sophia
peace crops
Renaissance
8. According to Darwin;s theory of evolution - process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest
natural selection
time of troubles
guomindang
nirvana
9. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
guest workers
pasteurization
burqa
guild
10. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
world health organization
Sikhs
proletariat
council of Trent
11. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
edict of Nantes
age grade
impressionism
checks and balances
12. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
predestination
fief
empire
Cyrillic alphabet
13. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
capital
vassal
burqa
Holocaust
14. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Bosporus Strait
code of Hammurabi
Huns
capital
15. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
society of Jesus
Columbian exchange
romanticism
postdam conference
16. The Jewish day of atonement
Yom Kippur
shi
ziggurat
kamikaze
17. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
forbidden city
Manchaeism
Neo- Confucianism
sakk
18. The study of humans as a species
guomindang
enlightened despot
anthropology
containment
19. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
anthropology
rotten borough
pariah
Yahweh
20. In feudal Europe - a peasant bound to the lord's land
social Darwinism
capitalism
serf
ghetto
21. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
utilitarian
Dadaism
guomindang
comedy
22. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
Magyars
patrician
perestroika
absolute monarch
23. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
triumvirate
urdu
four noble truths
pastoral nomadism
24. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
utilitarian
collective farming
imperialism
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
25. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
nongovernmental organization
civil rights movement
civilization
Shiva
26. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
dowry death
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Truman doctrine
African National Congress
27. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
Bell Act
great lap forward
push-pull factors
geneva conference
28. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
appeasement
karma
nation-stae
mameduke
29. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
nationalism
city-state
capital
romanticism
30. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
Allah
apprenticeship
thermoluminescnce dating
dharma
31. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
feudalism
ethnic cleansing
Kellogg-Briand Pact
shah
32. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
stem cell research
Balfour Declaration
lateen sail
edict of Nantes
33. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
green revolution
consul
mameduke
absolute monarch
34. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
cynicism
Palestine liberation organization
eightfold path
dictator
35. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
lebnsraum
stoicism
hijra
tyrant
36. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
soviet
Protestant Reformation
parallel descent
kibbutzim
37. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
Yom Kippur
ayatollah
world trade organization
caravel
38. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
African National Congress
iconoclastic controversy
triple alliance
joint-stock company
39. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
Sepoys
scientific revolution
Reconquest
Tarah
40. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
peace crops
strategic defense initiative
militarism
Justinian Code
41. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
lebnsraum
separation of powers
genocide
desalinization
42. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
luftwaffe
serf
containment
hominid
43. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
Ka'aba
enclosure movement
Catholic reformation
geocentric theory
44. A policy passed by the US congress in 1941 to allow President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the USA
Lend- Lease Act
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
satrap
homeland
45. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
Yahweh
griot
triple entente
thermoluminescnce dating
46. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
mestizo
civil disobedience
Yalta Conference
justification by faith
47. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
Dadaism
kibbutzim
illuminated manuscript
economic imperialism
48. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
mau mau
icon
golden mean
Afrikaner
49. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
code of Hammurabi
Bell Act
Magyars
Neo- Confucianism
50. The german air force
luftwaffe
comedy
Protestant Reformation
triple alliance