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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
triple entente
Catholic reformation
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
romanticism
2. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
social contract
diaspora
burgess
final solution
3. The belief in one god
concession
helsinki accords
blitzkrieg
monotheism
4. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
radiocarbon dating
vassal
satrap
desalinization
5. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
Utopian socialist
devshirme
joint-stock company
lateen sail
6. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
Cultural Revolution
nationalism
edict of Nantes
time of troubles
7. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
qanat
aristocracy
bushido
nongovernmental organization
8. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
Tamils
encomienda
capitalism
aristocracy
9. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
operation overlord
enlightened despot
apprenticeship
feminist
10. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
capital
mau mau
nationalism
league of nations
11. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
world trade organization
archaeology
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Manhattan project
12. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
scientific revolution
specialization of labor
divine right of kings
tragedy
13. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
homeland
patriarchal
impressionism
Boers
14. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
estate
Yalta Conference
Tamils
bourgeoisie
15. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
operation overlord
multinational corporation
consul
apprenticeship
16. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
social Darwinism
manor
Afrikaner
archeology
17. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
multinational corporation
city-state
global village
hominid
18. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
oracle bone
brinkmanship
strategic defense initiative
dictator
19. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
caravel
communism
devshirme
oracle bone
20. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
glyph
helot
Boers
psychoanalysis
21. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
Neo- Confucianism
veto
griot
tribune
22. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
empire
totalitarian state
Kellogg-Briand Pact
league of nations
23. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
radiocarbon dating
cuneiform
illuminated manuscript
operation Barbarossa
24. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
pogram
Shiva
epicureanism
quinine
25. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
scientific revolution
time of troubles
astrolabe
helot
26. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
patriarch
collective bargaining
marshall plan
cubism
27. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
mameduke
karma
coalition
joint-stock company
28. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
satrap
communism
shah
guomindang
29. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
sati
geocentric theory
karma
Bolsheviks
30. A Muslim ruler
civilization
emir
protectorate
radical
31. The concept of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu that each branch of government be granted distinct powers that served to limit those of the other branches of the government
brinkmanship
quipu
checks and balances
creole
32. 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
anthropology
existentialism
democratization
Bolsheviks
33. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
island-hopping
Renaissance
Dadaism
tribune
34. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
soviet
nongovernmental organization
functionalism
animism
35. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
caravel
desalinization
DNA dating
triple entente
36. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
lateen sail
patrician
psychoanalysis
radiocarbon dating
37. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
mameduke
strategic defense initiative
militarism
Truman doctrine
38. Peace plan for the post world war I world proposed by President Woodrow Wilson; its major points included the principle of self- determination and the establishment of an association of nations
illuminated manuscript
fourteen points
checks and balances
Homo sapiens
39. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
time of troubles
chinampa
island-hopping
chivalry
40. The Muslim name for God
Allah
urdu
Lend- Lease Act
strategic defense initiative
41. 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
icon
glyph
mobilization
four noble truths
42. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
existentialism
enlightened despot
stream of consciousness
realism
43. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
enclosure movement
artifacts
benefice
realism
44. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
scientific revolution
middle passage
harem
kowtow
45. A grant of land in medieval Europe
psychoanalysis
chinampa
satrap
fief
46. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
burgher
Yom Kippur
archeology
guest workers
47. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
nonalignment
nation-stae
final solution
imperialism
48. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
legion
brinkmanship
Yahweh
constitutional monarchy
49. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
third reich
space probe
thermoluminescnce dating
human cloning
50. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
desalinization
laissez-faire
middle passage
shi
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