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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Justinian Code
pastoral nomadism
nationalism
paleontologists
2. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
third world
theory of evolution
apostle
robotics
3. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
icon
kaiser
stem cell research
absolute monarch
4. A national legislature assembly
loess
totalitarian state
parliament
Taliban
5. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
consul
papal states
moderate
Sikhs
6. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
Royal Road
nonalignment
quinine
peninsular
7. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
apostle
Dar al- Islam
Truman doctrine
dharma
8. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
Neo- Confucianism
quipu
missi dominici
domino theory
9. A Persian king
shah
code of Hammurabi
sunni
czar (tsar)
10. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
third reich
jazz
enclosure movement
balance of power
11. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
parallel descent
stupa
Palestine liberation organization
world trade center
12. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
Dar al- Islam
society of Jesus
ghetto
polytheism
13. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
quipu
operation Barbarossa
mobilization
code of Hammurabi
14. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
Warsaw pact
purdah
Balkans
sati
15. Describes a male-dominated society
polis
monotheism
encomienda
patriarchal
16. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
fresco
internal migration
jazz
sati
17. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
Atlantic Charter
Tarah
feudalism
age grade
18. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
coalition
diaspora
reactionary
concession
19. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
people of the book
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Tamils
Magyars
20. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
factors of production
yin and yang
polygamy
nongovernmental organization
21. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
five pillars
British Commonwealth
helot
four tigers
22. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
Columbian exchange
detente
suffrage
Neolithic Revolution
23. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
Boers
time of troubles
plebeian
polygamy
24. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
apprenticeship
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
radiocarbon dating
mystery religion
25. A grant of land in medieval Europe
fief
nationalism
one-child policy
zen Buddhism
26. German submarines
animism
laissez-faire
u-boats
kaiser
27. The technology associated with the application of robots
tree-ring dating
Shiva
robotics
economic imperialism
28. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
civil rights movement
domestic system
bushido
stoicism
29. Russian Parliament
Protestant Reformation
Truman doctrine
duma
new economic policy
30. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
space station
Sikhs
treaty of tordesillas
Atlantic Charter
31. An object shaped by humans
Deism
Magyars
human cloning
artifact
32. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
Columbian exchange
civil rights movement
kowtow
totalitarian state
33. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
kamikaze
Sepoys
mobilization
realism
34. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
emir
patrician
democratization
McDonaldization
35. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
strategic defense initiative
sakk
shogun
internal migration
36. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
divine right of kings
papal states
dowry death
Palestine liberation organization
37. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
lebnsraum
edict of Nantes
capital
mensheviks
38. 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
tribune
Bell Act
stele
sakk
39. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
communism
colony
Cultural Revolution
Balfour Declaration
40. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
satrap
strategic defense initiative
hajj
league of nations
41. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
Renaissance
caravanserials
diaspora
Kellogg-Briand Pact
42. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Afrikaner
civil rights movement
separation of powers
fourteen points
43. 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
lateen sail
European Union
jainissary
devshirme
44. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
British Commonwealth
chlorofluorocarbons
yin and yang
council of Trent
45. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
diocese
czar (tsar)
theocracy
triple alliance
46. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
chivalry
world trade organization
global village
Lend- Lease Act
47. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
code of Hammurabi
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
cuneiform
48. The dissemination of materials or messages to promote one's own cause or diminish the cause of an adversary
kowtow
ghetto
propaganda
dowry death
49. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
monotheism
Tamils
commercial agriculture
mystery religion
50. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
existentialism
nicene creed
caravanserials
poliburo