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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
Nuremberg trials
soviet
moderate
four modernizations
2. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
conservative
golden mean
treaty of tordesillas
bushi
3. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
Yahweh
push-pull factors
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
operation sea lion
4. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
ethnic cleansing
paleolithic age
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
green revolution
5. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
realism
Bosporus Strait
Manchaeism
communism
6. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
ethnic cleansing
covenant
caravanserials
Zionism
7. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
blitzkrieg
collective farming
fresco
marathon
8. A national legislature assembly
third reich
romanticism
parliament
operation overlord
9. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
people of the book
natural selection
surrealism
Bosporus Strait
10. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
imperialism
divine right of kings
trench warfare
griot
11. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
Atlantic Charter
poliburo
multinational corporation
ayatollah
12. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
kibbutzim
ethnic cleansing
island-hopping
macadam road
13. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
scientific revolution
utilitarian
kaiser
polygamy
14. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
daimyo
green revolution
desalinization
ayatollah
15. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
chivalry
lateen sail
shia
Bolsheviks
16. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
civilization
green revolution
people of the book
17. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
poliburo
Palestine liberation organization
nonalignment
internal migration
18. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
council of Trent
monotheism
Atlantic Charter
guild
19. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
aristocracy
jainissary
divine right of kings
thermoluminescnce dating
20. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
shariah
balance of power
Anabaptists
world trade center
21. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
detente
internal migration
Nuremberg trials
social contract
22. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
nicene creed
social contract
kinship group
griot
23. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
domestic system
lateen sail
truncated pyramid
caudillo
24. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
propaganda
Sikhs
papal states
absolute monarch
25. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
nation-stae
appeasement
ayatollah
predestination
26. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
middle passage
bushido
triumvirate
DNA dating
27. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
bushido
Palestine liberation organization
Manhattan project
czar (tsar)
28. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
apartheid
joint-stock company
nationalism
suffrage
29. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
satellite nation
Balfour Declaration
peninsular
papal states
30. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
astrolabe
Dar al- Islam
homeland
papal states
31. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
terra cotta
strategic defense initiative
four noble truths
Renaissance
32. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
loess
Holocaust
patriarchal
duma
33. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
civil disobedience
Balkans
enlightenment
messiah
34. The Hebrew name for God
Ka'aba
Yahweh
daimyo
caste
35. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
Neolithic Revolution
steppe
Catholic reformation
vietnamization
36. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
shogun
Royal Road
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
appeasement
37. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
junkers
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
karma
tribune
38. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
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39. Large estate in ancient Rome
patrician
Sepoys
latifundia
terra cotta
40. A series of examinations given to determine qualifications for government- related jobs
Shiva
benefice
civil service system
duma
41. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
operation sea lion
Zionism
city-state
thermoluminescent dating
42. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
yin and yang
civilization
appeasement
global village
43. The organized elimination of an entire population group
pastoral nomadism
Utopian socialist
genocide
radiocarbon dating
44. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
third reich
time of troubles
karma
golden mean
45. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
Bell Act
hieroglyphics
encomienda
natural selection
46. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
stream of consciousness
league of nations
shi
thermoluminescent dating
47. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
soviet
bushido
artifacts
cubism
48. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
republic
dynasty
civil service system
trench warfare
49. The termination of slavery
u-boats
loess
abolition
satrap
50. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
terra cotta
hominid
treaty of tordesillas
ethnic cleansing
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