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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. 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
desalinization
covenant
benefice
2. 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
Bell Act
republic
geocentric theory
laissez-faire
3. A Latin American military dictator
Boers
Lend- Lease Act
caudillo
ghetto
4. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
triple alliance
millet
DNA dating
existentialism
5. A 26 mile race
marathon
genocide
factors of production
pastoral nomadism
6. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
conservative
one-child policy
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Bosporus Strait
7. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
major domo
Deism
new deal
8. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
suffrage
radiocarbon dating
tragedy
Protestant Reformation
9. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
glyph
pogram
enlightenment
archeology
10. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
luftwaffe
guomindang
mandate of heaven
economic imperialism
11. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
enclosure movement
junkers
Utopian socialist
golden mean
12. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
world trade center
coalition
Australopithecus
five-year plans
13. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
concession
Renaissance
Anabaptists
Dar al- Islam
14. 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
Australopithecus
joint-stock company
Neo- Confucianism
great lap forward
15. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
communism
stoicism
mestizo
thermoluminescnce dating
16. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
pariah
imperialism
justification by faith
kibbutzim
17. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
apartheid
tyrant
purdah
socialism
18. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
Manhattan project
commune
Yalta Conference
bourgeoisie
19. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
terra cotta
apprenticeship
radical
hellenistic culture
20. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
burgher
Inquisition
suffrage
civil disobedience
21. Member of elite class in ancient rome
qanat
global village
world trade center
patrician
22. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
rotten borough
quinine
joint-stock company
Bosporus Strait
23. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
paleontologists
astrolabe
nicene creed
Brahmin
24. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
glyph
republic
multinational corporation
commercial agriculture
25. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
estate
Sepoys
command economy
entrepreneurship
26. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
appeasement
vassal
Warsaw pact
cynicism
27. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
steppe
divine right of kings
nonalignment
operation sea lion
28. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
radiocarbon dating
collective farming
constitutional monarchy
lateen sail
29. The Muslim community of faithful
feudalism
umma
African National Congress
third reich
30. 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
apostle
world health organization
island-hopping
quipu
31. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
surrealism
balance of power
manga carta
creole
32. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
society of Jesus
separation of powers
dictator
qanat
33. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
soviet
functionalism
militarism
suffrage
34. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
city-state
lateen sail
people of the book
new economic policy
35. A political system in which a monarch or noble granted land to other nobles in exchange for military services - protection and loyalty
soviet
Dadaism
feudalism
macadam road
36. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
shogun
Renaissance
mobilization
helsinki accords
37. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
golden mean
Brahmin
shariah
patriarchal
38. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
mau mau
capital
sakk
Bolsheviks
39. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
Yom Kippur
stele
thermoluminescent dating
fourteen points
40. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
communism
nonalignment
Yom Kippur
internal migration
41. 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
parallel descent
four noble truths
gulf of tonkin resolution
42. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
Boers
chlorofluorocarbons
marathon
great lap forward
43. One who pursues the meaning of truth
philosopher
reactionary
Tarah
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
44. 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
democratization
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Boers
surrealism
45. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
extraterritorial rights
umma
liberal
internal migration
46. 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
dowry death
artifact
hieroglyphics
liberal
47. 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
vietnamization
kamikaze
samurai
balance of power
48. The power to prevent the execution of law
hominid
veto
griot
archeology
49. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
anthropology
steppe
oracle bone
armistice
50. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
luftwaffe
liberal
mystery religion
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
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