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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
capital
edict of Nantes
pastoral nomadism
gulf of tonkin resolution
2. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
suffrage
yin and yang
Tamils
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
3. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
final solution
Protestant Reformation
Utopian socialist
new economic policy
4. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
scorched- earth policy
Hagia Sophia
harem
shi
5. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
Nuremberg trials
luftwaffe
mestizo
psychoanalysis
6. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
legion
Inquisition
empire
astrolabe
7. Soviet reform initiated in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev by which the political system was moderated to allow votes to choose from a slate of candidates
world health organization
internal migration
tree-ring dating
democratization
8. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
macadam road
Lend- Lease Act
mandate
consul
9. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
theocracy
Anabaptists
triple entente
Allah
10. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
dowry death
patrician
neolithic age
new deal
11. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Huns
triangular trade
hijra
Atlantic Charter
12. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Catholic reformation
missi dominici
bushido
forbidden city
13. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
nationalism
Reconquest
scorched- earth policy
intifada
14. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
helsinki accords
emir
mameduke
usury
15. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
Holocaust
Hagia Sophia
papal states
duma
16. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
predestination
Dar al- Islam
neolithic age
edict of Nantes
17. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
radiocarbon dating
jainissary
psychoanalysis
hijra
18. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
five-year plans
economic imperialism
cuneiform
Homo sapiens
19. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
Bell Act
usury
chivalry
geneva conference
20. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
aristocracy
monsoon
Bolsheviks
civilization
21. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
kamikaze
conservative
enlightened despot
manor
22. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
indulgence
burqa
diocese
four noble truths
23. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
Yahweh
justification by faith
desalinization
Yom Kippur
24. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
mau mau
radiocarbon dating
helsinki accords
Neolithic Revolution
25. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
European Union
league of nations
collective bargaining
operation Barbarossa
26. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
Tamils
protectorate
philosopher
theory of relativity
27. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
Manchaeism
caravanserials
new economic policy
thermoluminescent dating
28. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
colony
absolute monarch
feminist
Manhattan project
29. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
edict of Nantes
theory of relativity
hellenistic culture
estates-general
30. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
four tigers
peace crops
dowry death
moderate
31. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
age grade
Truman doctrine
radical
burgher
32. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
shah
proletariat
mameduke
harem
33. 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
monsoon
great lap forward
brinkmanship
kowtow
34. The right of a dynasty to rule
legitimacy
Justinian Code
operation sea lion
seppuku
35. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
glasnost
oracle bone
mandate of heaven
purdah
36. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
theory of evolution
serf
joint-stock company
treaty of tordesillas
37. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Hagia Sophia
hominid
Manchaeism
patrician
38. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
rotten borough
absolute monarch
chivalry
DNA dating
39. Objects shaped by humans
Dar al- Islam
appeasement
purdah
artifacts
40. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
surrealism
mandate of heaven
stupa
island-hopping
41. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shinto
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
guomindang
robotics
42. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
papal states
Yalta Conference
encomienda
new economic policy
43. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
glasnost
samurai
luftwaffe
great lap forward
44. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
vietnamization
McDonaldization
guomindang
repartamiento
45. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
astrolabe
ayatollah
civilization
devshirme
46. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
postdam conference
Yom Kippur
Zionism
Palestine liberation organization
47. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
chinampa
marathon
African National Congress
Holocaust
48. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
predestination
Truman doctrine
strategic defense initiative
capitalism
49. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
estates-general
green revolution
kowtow
Mongol Peace
50. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
surrealism
Deism
Inquisition
Hagia Sophia