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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
Australopithecus
enclosure movement
stoicism
artifacts
2. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
Afrikaner
radiocarbon dating
guest workers
fief
3. Marriage to more than one wife
hieroglyphics
polygamy
emir
apprenticeship
4. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
psychoanalysis
sunni
stupa
oracle bone
5. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
realpolitik
hellenistic culture
usury
fascism
6. Member of elite class in ancient rome
patrician
kamikaze
Yom Kippur
social Darwinism
7. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
justification by faith
third world
epicureanism
thermoluminescent dating
8. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
Catholic reformation
triple entente
chinampa
civil service system
9. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
Dadaism
ghetto
consul
kinship group
10. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
Manchaeism
constitutional monarchy
encomienda
natural selection
11. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
world trade center
Zionism
Brahmin
British Commonwealth
12. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
space station
surrealism
civilization
proletariat
13. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
Yalta Conference
sphere of influence
Balfour Declaration
major domo
14. The symbol used as part of a writing system
space shuttle
caravel
glyph
edict of Nantes
15. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
soviet
Atlantic Charter
surrealism
external migration
16. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
Magyars
polis
intifada
plebeian
17. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
time of troubles
golden mean
usury
theocracy
18. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
caudillo
indulgence
senate
domestic system
19. A grant of land in medieval Europe
caudillo
civil disobedience
fief
enclosure movement
20. 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
helsinki accords
enclosure movement
theory of evolution
scorched- earth policy
21. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
manor
containment
social Darwinism
mobilization
22. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
shah
green revolution
kaiser
five-year plans
23. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
chlorofluorocarbons
militarism
operation Barbarossa
shah
24. A humanlike creature that walks upright
benefice
mandate of heaven
hominid
seppuku
25. 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
manor
people of the book
epicureanism
theory of relativity
26. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
sati
containment
edict of Nantes
Columbian exchange
27. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
urdu
satrap
coalition
Sepoys
28. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
entrepreneurship
comedy
millet
pastoral nomadism
29. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
bourgeoisie
Zionism
triumvirate
Ka'aba
30. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
serf
Taliban
social Darwinism
tyrant
31. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
operation sea lion
constitutional monarchy
hajj
stele
32. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
four noble truths
internal migration
repartamiento
Cyrillic alphabet
33. A series of examinations given to determine qualifications for government- related jobs
civil service system
radiocarbon dating
jainissary
empire
34. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
suffrage
space station
social contract
polytheism
35. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
African National Congress
dictator
oracle bone
operation Barbarossa
36. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
glyph
helot
dharma
militarism
37. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
eightfold path
Catholic reformation
latifundia
peninsular
38. A member of the middle class in medieval England
stream of consciousness
burgess
astrolabe
totalitarian state
39. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
checks and balances
patriarch
Holocaust
theory of evolution
40. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
Bolsheviks
feudalism
Zionism
repartamiento
41. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
silk roads
code of Hammurabi
trench warfare
time of troubles
42. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
five-year plans
homeland
mystery religion
caudillo
43. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
postdam conference
guest workers
dowry death
fascism
44. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
paleolithic age
domino theory
new economic policy
nationalism
45. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
Yalta Conference
eightfold path
command economy
shi
46. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
island-hopping
empire
realism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
47. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
rotten borough
theory of relativity
terra cotta
Afrikaner
48. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
social Darwinism
space shuttle
coalition
natural selection
49. 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
Cultural Revolution
poliburo
thermoluminescent dating
50. The termination of slavery
Renaissance
kamikaze
artifacts
abolition