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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
collective farming
usury
nicene creed
hajj
2. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
papal states
Boers
polytheism
artifact
3. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
checks and balances
intifada
green revolution
mameduke
4. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
civil rights movement
impressionism
four modernizations
hieroglyphics
5. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
operation overlord
vassal
conservative
Dar al- Islam
6. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Yom Kippur
Balfour Declaration
McDonaldization
Utopian socialist
7. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
laissez-faire
new economic policy
commune
civilization
8. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
Truman doctrine
caravanserials
zen Buddhism
communism
9. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
stream of consciousness
republic
Yahweh
repartamiento
10. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
chlorofluorocarbons
daimyo
fresco
commercial revolution
11. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
mensheviks
u-boats
ghazi
thermoluminescnce dating
12. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
cynicism
repartamiento
postdam conference
Balfour Declaration
13. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
socialism
social Darwinism
apartheid
luftwaffe
14. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
Taliban
theory of relativity
civil service system
world trade center
15. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
Taliban
armistice
polis
archeology
16. The Jewish day of atonement
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
terra cotta
Yom Kippur
hijra
17. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
one-child policy
enclosure movement
socialism
monotheism
18. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
surrealism
Hagia Sophia
proletariat
u-boats
19. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
mobilization
collective bargaining
city-state
latifundia
20. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
encomienda
stream of consciousness
dowry death
illuminated manuscript
21. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
Balkans
helot
Bolsheviks
Utopian socialist
22. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
sakk
satrap
glyph
people of the book
23. A ceasefire agreement
pariah
papal states
armistice
African National Congress
24. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
peninsular
stele
mercantilism
constitutional monarchy
25. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
chinampa
Bolsheviks
Tamils
26. An object shaped by humans
glasnost
apartheid
British Commonwealth
artifact
27. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
mensheviks
tyrant
soviet
chivalry
28. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
world health organization
world trade center
mau mau
world trade organization
29. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
glyph
council of Trent
hijra
capitalism
30. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
appeasement
constitutional monarchy
millet
civil rights movement
31. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
mystery religion
British Commonwealth
hubris
Justinian Code
32. An Incan record keeping device that consisted of a cord from which were suspended a number of cords - each containing a variety of knots of various sizes shapes and colors
quipu
helsinki accords
Yalta Conference
Balkans
33. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
monsoon
hieroglyphics
five-year plans
ziggurat
34. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
vassal
consul
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
blitzkrieg
35. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
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36. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
cubism
Afrikaner
caravel
Tarah
37. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
jainissary
Ka'aba
Deism
Truman doctrine
38. An antimalarial drug
Palestine liberation organization
nirvana
fourteen points
quinine
39. The german air force
luftwaffe
Catholic reformation
manga carta
natural selection
40. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
poliburo
predestination
papal states
emir
41. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
shogun
rotten borough
brinkmanship
golden mean
42. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
parliament
socialism
caravel
republic
43. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
pastoral nomadism
paleolithic age
repartamiento
Anabaptists
44. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
plebeian
Boers
qanat
mobilization
45. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
specialization of labor
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
hellenistic culture
abolition
46. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
tribune
pariah
creole
dictator
47. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
treaty of Versailles
commercial agriculture
diaspora
militarism
48. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
shi
mandate
caravanserials
Bolsheviks
49. The power to prevent the execution of law
dowry death
tribune
veto
European Union
50. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
middle passage
steppe
stoicism
mystery religion
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