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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
treaty of Versailles
peace crops
tribune
pariah
2. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
tribune
benefice
communism
commercial revolution
3. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
divine right of kings
factors of production
five-year plans
internal migration
4. 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
caudillo
African National Congress
capitalism
Lend- Lease Act
5. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
samurai
zen Buddhism
polytheism
silk roads
6. 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
jazz
urdu
civil rights movement
Cultural Revolution
7. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
predestination
mystery religion
triangular trade
Neolithic Revolution
8. The study of humans as a species
kinship group
urdu
humanism
anthropology
9. The german air force
luftwaffe
u-boats
functionalism
robotics
10. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
patriarch
scorched- earth policy
apostle
fourteen points
11. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
detente
consumerism
middle passage
cynicism
12. The Muslim community of faithful
samurai
karma
dynasty
umma
13. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
golden mean
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
enlightened despot
consumerism
14. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
iconoclastic controversy
dynasty
McDonaldization
republic
15. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
estates-general
factors of production
concession
dissident
16. The Hebrew name for God
Yahweh
hijra
shah
republic
17. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
sphere of influence
triple alliance
Hagia Sophia
humanism
18. German submarines
age grade
u-boats
patriarch
theory of relativity
19. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
enlightened despot
peace crops
balance of power
enclosure movement
20. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
stoicism
foraging
Manchaeism
capital
21. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
vassal
age grade
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Taliban
22. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
sati
mystery religion
u-boats
Shiva
23. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
third reich
apostle
empire
desalinization
24. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
sakk
space probe
sati
urdu
25. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
terra cotta
city-state
space station
kibbutzim
26. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
perestroika
Dar al- Islam
containment
green revolution
27. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
illuminated manuscript
Homo sapiens
third world
Balkans
28. A humanlike creature that walks upright
burqa
cuneiform
joint-stock company
hominid
29. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
psychoanalysis
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
bushi
gospel
30. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
theory of evolution
mystery religion
Mongol Peace
realpolitik
31. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
burgess
world trade organization
dynasty
five pillars
32. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
dynasty
caste
illuminated manuscript
truncated pyramid
33. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
shogun
manor
guomindang
plebeian
34. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
theory of evolution
caravel
Afrikaner
humanism
35. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
colony
propaganda
nirvana
theocracy
36. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
shinto
four noble truths
burgher
archaeology
37. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
totalitarian state
stele
space probe
functionalism
38. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
push-pull factors
Huns
tribune
ghazi
39. Large estate in ancient Rome
latifundia
concession
papal states
code of Hammurabi
40. A greak city-state
middle passage
time of troubles
polis
dynasty
41. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
plebeian
mau mau
blitzkrieg
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
42. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
ethnic cleansing
stoicism
Swahili
caravanserials
43. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
new economic policy
Warsaw pact
satrap
bushi
44. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
polytheism
parliament
paleolithic age
Boers
45. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
operation Barbarossa
neolithic age
karma
bourgeoisie
46. A 1945 conference help at post damn - Germany in which Truman and Churchill met with Stalin to attempt to persuade him to abandon his policy of domination of the soviet satellite nations
mandate
postdam conference
archaeology
civil rights movement
47. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
neolithic age
collective bargaining
civil rights movement
satellite nation
48. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Swahili
Manhattan project
gospel
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
49. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
glasnost
cuneiform
theory of relativity
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
50. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
justification by faith
shinto
apprenticeship
economic imperialism
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