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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. 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
stoicism
external migration
ethnic cleansing
world trade organization
2. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
world trade organization
commercial revolution
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
enlightened despot
3. The organized elimination of an entire population group
covenant
genocide
nationalism
foraging
4. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
loess
nationalism
city-state
theory of relativity
5. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
totalitarian state
ethnic cleansing
push-pull factors
Sepoys
6. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
poliburo
collective farming
abolition
7. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
existentialism
Cyrillic alphabet
Hagia Sophia
caravel
8. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
Afrikaner
kowtow
diocese
lebnsraum
9. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
duma
tragedy
push-pull factors
manga carta
10. One who disagrees; a dissenter
dissident
natural selection
gulf of tonkin resolution
command economy
11. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
shinto
caudillo
Sikhs
theory of relativity
12. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
parliament
karma
samurai
junkers
13. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
constitutional monarchy
glyph
dictator
zen Buddhism
14. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
mercantilism
Deism
collective bargaining
patrician
15. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
one-child policy
helot
great lap forward
surrealism
16. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
kibbutzim
council of Trent
homeland
senate
17. Describes a male-dominated society
stele
DNA dating
hubris
patriarchal
18. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
sphere of influence
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
social Darwinism
plebeian
19. A series of examinations given to determine qualifications for government- related jobs
hijra
benefice
civil service system
appeasement
20. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
satrap
Homo sapiens
iconoclastic controversy
yin and yang
21. A Latin American military dictator
caudillo
four tigers
epicureanism
monsoon
22. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
intifada
cubism
griot
balance of power
23. Russian emperor
griot
encomienda
czar (tsar)
mameduke
24. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
zen Buddhism
radical
peninsular
25. The concept of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu that each branch of government be granted distinct powers that served to limit those of the other branches of the government
containment
Justinian Code
checks and balances
external migration
26. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
paleolithic age
guomindang
mandate of heaven
foraging
27. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
human cloning
nirvana
Deism
ghazi
28. A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and 18th centuries stating that human beings were basically good and could be further improved through education - and upholding reason as the key to truth
enlightenment
czar (tsar)
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Tamils
29. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
theory of relativity
ziggurat
Catholic reformation
divine right of kings
30. The german air force
feminist
luftwaffe
consul
Catholic reformation
31. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
intifada
parallel descent
stele
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
32. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
nation-stae
papal states
collective farming
polytheism
33. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
council of Trent
samurai
space probe
bushido
34. Agreement between the united states and the Philippines that granted the Filipinos war damages in exchange for the establishment of free trade between the Philippines and the United States
umma
Bell Act
millet
liberal
35. 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
Bolsheviks
radical
devshirme
extraterritorial rights
36. Large collective farm
triple alliance
radical
Allah
commune
37. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
city-state
usury
paleolithic age
enclosure movement
38. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
tribune
plebeian
domino theory
peninsular
39. 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
burqa
glasnost
comedy
Truman doctrine
40. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
hajj
purdah
dynasty
factors of production
41. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
missi dominici
divine right of kings
monsoon
stateless society
42. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
tribune
feminist
fresco
blitzkrieg
43. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
samurai
theocracy
dowry death
economic imperialism
44. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
epicureanism
empire
aristocracy
socialism
45. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
gospel
nirvana
Justinian Code
space shuttle
46. A national legislature assembly
collective farming
Kellogg-Briand Pact
parliament
encomienda
47. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
surrealism
dictator
astrolabe
hieroglyphics
48. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
feminist
Renaissance
Palestine liberation organization
foraging
49. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
satrap
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
truncated pyramid
Anabaptists
50. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
realism
sphere of influence
space station
consul