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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
peace crops
satrap
zen Buddhism
burgher
2. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
Sikhs
estate
stele
caudillo
3. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
benefice
quipu
trench warfare
shia
4. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
radiocarbon dating
silk roads
iconoclastic controversy
terra cotta
5. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
legion
patriarch
epicureanism
ayatollah
6. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
global village
romanticism
Brahmin
colony
7. The right of a dynasty to rule
postdam conference
apartheid
legitimacy
great lap forward
8. The five duties required of all Muslims: faith -prayer -alms -fasting during Ramadan - and the hajj
daimyo
green revolution
plebeian
five pillars
9. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
Catholic reformation
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
oracle bone
domestic system
10. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
millet
geocentric theory
laissez-faire
caravel
11. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
trench warfare
perestroika
emir
extraterritorial rights
12. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
nongovernmental organization
African National Congress
paleontologists
benefice
13. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
Cultural Revolution
monotheism
operation sea lion
social contract
14. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
mercantilism
collective farming
Tamils
caravanserials
15. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
senate
perestroika
usury
satrap
16. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
rotten borough
Kellogg-Briand Pact
domestic system
Renaissance
17. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
third world
lateen sail
green revolution
Magyars
18. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
totalitarian state
jainissary
guomindang
ghetto
19. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
balance of power
caravel
anthropology
council of Trent
20. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
karma
humanism
joint-stock company
enlightenment
21. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
enlightenment
capital
Bolsheviks
edict of Nantes
22. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
devshirme
messiah
tribune
bushi
23. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
Brahmin
mercantilism
edict of Nantes
sunni
24. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
intifada
Homo sapiens
Justinian Code
Deism
25. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
conservative
comedy
civil rights movement
marshall plan
26. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
junkers
archeology
Zionism
DNA dating
27. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
people of the book
McDonaldization
veto
socialism
28. 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
push-pull factors
devshirme
geocentric theory
triple entente
29. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
socialism
five-year plans
world trade organization
chivalry
30. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
dynasty
radiocarbon dating
Boers
island-hopping
31. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
Manchaeism
Cultural Revolution
patrician
pasteurization
32. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
hieroglyphics
parliament
Boers
treaty of Versailles
33. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
theocracy
radiocarbon dating
mystery religion
fresco
34. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
four tigers
five pillars
green revolution
helsinki accords
35. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
polytheism
treaty of tordesillas
external migration
truncated pyramid
36. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
mandate
mystery religion
Homo sapiens
chlorofluorocarbons
37. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
dissident
surrealism
European Union
kinship group
38. The power to prevent the execution of law
nation-stae
mandate of heaven
veto
enlightened despot
39. The belief in one god
commercial revolution
league of nations
monotheism
marathon
40. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
lateen sail
strategic defense initiative
satrap
41. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
Boers
specialization of labor
fresco
astrolabe
42. A national legislature assembly
parliament
concession
ethnic cleansing
empire
43. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
estates-general
macadam road
triangular trade
Manhattan project
44. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
millet
McDonaldization
Neo- Confucianism
gulf of tonkin resolution
45. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
repartamiento
reactionary
pastoral nomadism
armistice
46. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
artifact
gulf of tonkin resolution
human cloning
shariah
47. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
radical
fourteen points
league of nations
48. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
absolute monarch
third reich
Allah
ghazi
49. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Reconquest
social Darwinism
operation overlord
constitutional monarchy
50. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
usury
guest workers
caravanserials
Bosporus Strait
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