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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
veto
totalitarian state
macadam road
nonalignment
2. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
hellenistic culture
triumvirate
consumerism
pastoral nomadism
3. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
world trade organization
four noble truths
harem
pasteurization
4. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
artifact
bushido
laissez-faire
fourteen points
5. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
iconoclastic controversy
oracle bone
third world
great lap forward
6. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
Brahmin
socialism
manor
realpolitik
7. A warrior for islam
civil rights movement
nongovernmental organization
latifundia
ghazi
8. 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
polytheism
Justinian Code
hellenistic culture
ethnic cleansing
9. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
major domo
glasnost
multinational corporation
Anabaptists
10. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
guild
Swahili
oracle bone
extraterritorial rights
11. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
Nuremberg trials
shogun
neolithic age
legion
12. A Persian king
shah
global village
age grade
utilitarian
13. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
polygamy
world health organization
appeasement
emir
14. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
jainissary
forbidden city
DNA dating
Renaissance
15. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
social Darwinism
mystery religion
stateless society
dictator
16. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
diaspora
scorched- earth policy
African National Congress
sunni
17. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
Reconquest
civil disobedience
estate
hijra
18. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
Bosporus Strait
triumvirate
poliburo
guomindang
19. The Hebrew name for God
Catholic reformation
zen Buddhism
Yahweh
satellite nation
20. The study of humans as a species
functionalism
urdu
anthropology
bushido
21. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
time of troubles
theory of relativity
balance of power
ziggurat
22. Large collective farm
imperialism
veto
burgess
commune
23. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
enclosure movement
moderate
hubris
ghetto
24. 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
Ka'aba
postdam conference
legion
griot
25. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
rotten borough
proletariat
satellite nation
collective farming
26. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
age grade
Inquisition
philosopher
manor
27. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
consumerism
Palestine liberation organization
four tigers
28. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
papal states
capitalism
consumerism
29. A German emperor
DNA dating
kaiser
artifacts
nicene creed
30. 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
zen Buddhism
blitzkrieg
economic imperialism
coalition
31. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
thermoluminescent dating
containment
mestizo
Yalta Conference
32. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
neolithic age
divine right of kings
triangular trade
sati
33. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
peace crops
Royal Road
chlorofluorocarbons
Reconquest
34. Objects shaped by humans
artifacts
pastoral nomadism
intifada
Mongol Peace
35. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
Yahweh
treaty of Versailles
anthropology
totalitarian state
36. 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
great lap forward
Bolsheviks
shogun
helsinki accords
37. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
harem
missi dominici
encomienda
shariah
38. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
city-state
pasteurization
encomienda
dharma
39. The Jewish day of atonement
consul
Yom Kippur
protectorate
veto
40. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
caste
neolithic age
sphere of influence
proletariat
41. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
thermoluminescnce dating
ziggurat
Atlantic Charter
Sikhs
42. 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 trade center
democratization
monsoon
five-year plans
43. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
thermoluminescent dating
absolute monarch
utilitarian
triumvirate
44. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
league of nations
thermoluminescnce dating
apostle
dowry death
45. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
Cyrillic alphabet
social contract
benefice
harem
46. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
armistice
operation Barbarossa
brinkmanship
griot
47. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
eightfold path
Sepoys
reparation
new deal
48. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
seppuku
loess
strategic defense initiative
kibbutzim
49. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
polis
bushi
treaty of tordesillas
50. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
domestic system
poliburo
justification by faith
edict of Nantes
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