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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
ayatollah
brinkmanship
Anabaptists
parallel descent
2. Large estate in ancient Rome
propaganda
five pillars
latifundia
anthropology
3. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
euro
manor
messiah
world health organization
4. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
factors of production
mameduke
lateen sail
nicene creed
5. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
green revolution
hijra
Justinian Code
pasteurization
6. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
guild
repartamiento
Catholic reformation
blitzkrieg
7. 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
British Commonwealth
kowtow
harem
polytheism
8. 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
third reich
feudalism
global village
Bell Act
9. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
scientific revolution
five pillars
triangular trade
apostle
10. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
league of nations
artifact
Catholic reformation
iconoclastic controversy
11. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
stoicism
final solution
helot
social Darwinism
12. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
island-hopping
poliburo
scientific revolution
operation Barbarossa
13. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
collective farming
DNA dating
nirvana
gulf of tonkin resolution
14. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
glyph
apprenticeship
containment
Reconquest
15. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
dictator
operation overlord
Mongol Peace
final solution
16. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
serf
astrolabe
nation-stae
Brahmin
17. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
command economy
economic imperialism
extraterritorial rights
fresco
18. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
kinship group
specialization of labor
treaty of Versailles
Bosporus Strait
19. 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
league of nations
poliburo
hellenistic culture
20. The power to prevent the execution of law
nation-stae
veto
new economic policy
terra cotta
21. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
social Darwinism
world trade center
samurai
terra cotta
22. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
peace crops
thermoluminescent dating
daimyo
mobilization
23. A member of the middle class in medieval England
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
middle passage
burgess
caste
24. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Catholic reformation
apartheid
economic imperialism
25. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
rotten borough
democratization
collective farming
cubism
26. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
Manchaeism
helsinki accords
chinampa
lebnsraum
27. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
paleolithic age
czar (tsar)
Taliban
Reconquest
28. 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
euro
sunni
operation overlord
dowry death
29. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
tree-ring dating
consul
polytheism
Warsaw pact
30. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
covenant
world health organization
pastoral nomadism
icon
31. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
silk roads
kibbutzim
nicene creed
geneva conference
32. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
usury
silk roads
Justinian Code
Inquisition
33. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
society of Jesus
external migration
impressionism
triangular trade
34. Studying fossil remains
junkers
paleontologists
existentialism
dictator
35. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
Justinian Code
u-boats
imperialism
bushi
36. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
artifact
impressionism
seppuku
diocese
37. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
mobilization
Swahili
czar (tsar)
harem
38. Russian Parliament
helsinki accords
duma
lebnsraum
cubism
39. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
postdam conference
city-state
Ka'aba
devshirme
40. 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
Neo- Confucianism
ethnic cleansing
paleontologists
luftwaffe
41. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
armistice
cuneiform
Nuremberg trials
Columbian exchange
42. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
Inquisition
Dar al- Islam
Tamils
fresco
43. An organization of European countries to promote free trade among its members
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Justinian Code
European Union
absolute monarch
44. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
treaty of tordesillas
nonalignment
four noble truths
feminist
45. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
Manhattan project
oracle bone
chinampa
command economy
46. 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
Hagia Sophia
postdam conference
monotheism
shariah
47. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
estates-general
peace crops
epicureanism
tragedy
48. The study of humans as a species
shi
epicureanism
luftwaffe
anthropology
49. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
soviet
shi
Balkans
philosopher
50. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
Protestant Reformation
marshall plan
four noble truths
Cyrillic alphabet
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