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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. 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
third world
predestination
devshirme
Dar al- Islam
2. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
poliburo
operation Barbarossa
theory of evolution
third reich
3. Muslim social and ethical law
genocide
hubris
karma
shariah
4. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
detente
final solution
peninsular
predestination
5. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
hellenistic culture
Balkans
harem
city-state
6. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
stupa
theory of relativity
constitutional monarchy
internal migration
7. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
desalinization
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
messiah
Nuremberg trials
8. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
social contract
new deal
mobilization
Ka'aba
9. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
four noble truths
predestination
intifada
new deal
10. One who pursues the meaning of truth
mandate
hajj
dissident
philosopher
11. 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
Zionism
realpolitik
bushido
great lap forward
12. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
Bolsheviks
multinational corporation
artifacts
Anabaptists
13. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
thermoluminescnce dating
artifacts
polytheism
kowtow
14. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
Huns
serf
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
diaspora
15. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
nicene creed
theory of evolution
pastoral nomadism
chivalry
16. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
dissident
mystery religion
time of troubles
hominid
17. The right of a dynasty to rule
legitimacy
qanat
functionalism
utilitarian
18. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
feudalism
kinship group
burqa
radiocarbon dating
19. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
poliburo
harem
anthropology
steppe
20. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
hieroglyphics
world trade organization
human cloning
Manchaeism
21. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
Balfour Declaration
new economic policy
archaeology
caravanserials
22. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
peace crops
Sikhs
Cultural Revolution
loess
23. A warrior for islam
hellenistic culture
humanism
vassal
ghazi
24. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
guest workers
animism
neolithic age
impressionism
25. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
moderate
separation of powers
mystery religion
hellenistic culture
26. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
consul
hajj
empire
European Union
27. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
burqa
triple alliance
theory of relativity
entrepreneurship
28. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
justification by faith
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
urdu
encomienda
29. An advocate of gradual political change
conservative
containment
fascism
ghetto
30. 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
Cyrillic alphabet
economic imperialism
ethnic cleansing
armistice
31. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
nirvana
satellite nation
four modernizations
DNA dating
32. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
factors of production
Reconquest
Holocaust
command economy
33. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
encomienda
council of Trent
cynicism
astrolabe
34. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
separation of powers
mau mau
ziggurat
enlightened despot
35. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
Tarah
third world
push-pull factors
hieroglyphics
36. A Muslim ruler
mandate
patrician
Boers
emir
37. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
geneva conference
cuneiform
hellenistic culture
usury
38. The german air force
treaty of tordesillas
empire
luftwaffe
kinship group
39. 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
feudalism
democratization
urdu
bushido
40. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
four tigers
genocide
entrepreneurship
41. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
nationalism
fief
specialization of labor
four tigers
42. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
functionalism
stream of consciousness
Allah
impressionism
43. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
dharma
triangular trade
civil rights movement
fresco
44. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
functionalism
cynicism
soviet
dowry death
45. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
third reich
burgher
democratization
kamikaze
46. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Afrikaner
hellenistic culture
satellite nation
shogun
47. Member of elite class in ancient rome
intifada
ghazi
patrician
hominid
48. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
thermoluminescnce dating
Utopian socialist
karma
green revolution
49. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
great lap forward
economic imperialism
fourteen points
appeasement
50. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
Warsaw pact
Cyrillic alphabet
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
new deal
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