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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
commercial revolution
joint-stock company
caste
caravanserials
2. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
homeland
Sikhs
archeology
Allah
3. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
bushido
Anabaptists
enclosure movement
sunni
4. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
sakk
neolithic age
Magyars
helsinki accords
5. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
robotics
macadam road
shi
hajj
6. A greak city-state
imperialism
covenant
ethnic cleansing
polis
7. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
major domo
burgher
chinampa
Yahweh
8. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
mensheviks
totalitarian state
messiah
silk roads
9. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
tree-ring dating
four modernizations
iconoclastic controversy
radiocarbon dating
10. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
British Commonwealth
imperialism
dictator
Columbian exchange
11. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
peace crops
triple entente
kowtow
Tarah
12. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
island-hopping
Manchaeism
functionalism
Truman doctrine
13. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
triumvirate
feudalism
truncated pyramid
reactionary
14. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
utilitarian
stream of consciousness
Afrikaner
Shiva
15. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
treaty of Versailles
strategic defense initiative
communism
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
16. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
apartheid
Catholic reformation
Bolsheviks
Hagia Sophia
17. A Muslim ruler
liberal
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
emir
theocracy
18. A policy passed by the US congress in 1941 to allow President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the USA
triple entente
Lend- Lease Act
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
foraging
19. Hunting and gathering
foraging
pasteurization
space probe
Homo sapiens
20. In feudal Europe - a peasant bound to the lord's land
serf
Kellogg-Briand Pact
republic
creole
21. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
Mongol Peace
griot
green revolution
Manchaeism
22. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
proletariat
apprenticeship
radical
satrap
23. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
polytheism
mobilization
league of nations
realpolitik
24. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
quinine
anthropology
dictator
stupa
25. One who pursues the meaning of truth
philosopher
radiocarbon dating
laissez-faire
daimyo
26. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
coalition
patriarch
bushi
theory of relativity
27. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
shi
intifada
socialism
28. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
realism
enclosure movement
Bell Act
balance of power
29. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
aristocracy
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
ethnic cleansing
people of the book
30. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
kamikaze
civil rights movement
mensheviks
theory of relativity
31. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
Swahili
colony
human cloning
hajj
32. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
manga carta
social Darwinism
burgher
gospel
33. German submarines
laissez-faire
mau mau
archeology
u-boats
34. The worship of many gods
papal states
polytheism
humanism
separation of powers
35. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
Dadaism
fascism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
tragedy
36. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
encomienda
pasteurization
creole
37. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
Warsaw pact
nationalism
chivalry
mameduke
38. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
caravanserials
surrealism
mameduke
world trade center
39. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
chinampa
dynasty
caste
tyrant
40. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
Dadaism
u-boats
poliburo
kinship group
41. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
predestination
anthropology
social Darwinism
urdu
42. A 26 mile race
stem cell research
patriarchal
great lap forward
marathon
43. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
nonalignment
moderate
eightfold path
apprenticeship
44. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
detente
Bosporus Strait
mandate
stateless society
45. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
new economic policy
third world
separation of powers
extraterritorial rights
46. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
patrician
absolute monarch
reparation
apprenticeship
47. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
Anabaptists
commercial agriculture
entrepreneurship
homeland
48. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
Sikhs
republic
shah
49. Large estate in ancient Rome
latifundia
natural selection
McDonaldization
great lap forward
50. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
joint-stock company
entrepreneurship
world trade organization
jainissary