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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
Neo- Confucianism
middle passage
propaganda
astrolabe
2. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
jazz
macadam road
Hagia Sophia
Australopithecus
3. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
Cultural Revolution
absolute monarch
society of Jesus
space station
4. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
people of the book
comedy
separation of powers
commercial revolution
5. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
iconoclastic controversy
caste
time of troubles
human cloning
6. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
human cloning
civil rights movement
triple alliance
Renaissance
7. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Reconquest
Dadaism
millet
Anabaptists
8. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
scorched- earth policy
legion
jainissary
time of troubles
9. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
poliburo
helsinki accords
euro
caravanserials
10. Objects shaped by humans
impressionism
artifacts
purdah
stateless society
11. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
archaeology
suffrage
Yom Kippur
12. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
Dadaism
mandate
terra cotta
mau mau
13. A delclaration advocating free - document signed by FDR and Churchill that expressed all of their intents in WWII - including that they sought no territorial gain - wouldn't allow a territorial change without the consent of all parties involved - an
human cloning
Atlantic Charter
triple alliance
Magyars
14. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
Yalta Conference
specialization of labor
hellenistic culture
gulf of tonkin resolution
15. A national legislature assembly
papal states
parliament
tribune
DNA dating
16. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
Catholic reformation
monsoon
third reich
world trade center
17. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
African National Congress
consul
natural selection
romanticism
18. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
nation-stae
griot
karma
stoicism
19. 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
eightfold path
British Commonwealth
nicene creed
caudillo
20. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
golden mean
thermoluminescent dating
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Huguenots
21. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
Tamils
intifada
mandate of heaven
millet
22. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
extraterritorial rights
geneva conference
people of the book
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
23. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
macadam road
Manhattan project
dissident
patrician
24. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
Zionism
satrap
democratization
mystery religion
25. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
hominid
kinship group
jainissary
gospel
26. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
sunni
checks and balances
ayatollah
existentialism
27. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
dharma
pariah
thermoluminescent dating
theory of evolution
28. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
social contract
Hagia Sophia
command economy
commune
29. An advocate of gradual political change
containment
comedy
armistice
conservative
30. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
apprenticeship
sati
shinto
new deal
31. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
caravanserials
council of Trent
forbidden city
Dadaism
32. 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
pogram
stem cell research
great lap forward
shariah
33. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
city-state
lebnsraum
Swahili
Yalta Conference
34. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
new deal
apartheid
scorched- earth policy
qanat
35. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
realpolitik
sunni
dictator
one-child policy
36. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
quinine
hellenistic culture
treaty of Versailles
world trade center
37. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
brinkmanship
intifada
dowry death
urdu
38. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
kinship group
enlightened despot
mandate of heaven
plebeian
39. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
griot
consul
one-child policy
conservative
40. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
realism
Balfour Declaration
nonalignment
world trade organization
41. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
hijra
nicene creed
millet
operation overlord
42. Involves obtaining samples of the genetic material of DNA from living donors and comparing it with the DNA from other persons or from animals computers and then are used to determine the rate of change in the DNA
seppuku
Deism
natural selection
DNA dating
43. 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
scientific revolution
paleontologists
lebnsraum
social Darwinism
44. A ceasefire agreement
poliburo
armistice
caravanserials
bourgeoisie
45. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
shinto
diaspora
armistice
pasteurization
46. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
stele
militarism
qanat
great lap forward
47. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
parallel descent
helsinki accords
Protestant Reformation
balance of power
48. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
proletariat
indulgence
dowry death
third world
49. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
surrealism
caste
realpolitik
neolithic age
50. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
triumvirate
satellite nation
mystery religion
rotten borough
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