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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
reactionary
bushido
balance of power
cynicism
2. An antimalarial drug
quinine
messiah
extraterritorial rights
hijra
3. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
peace crops
extraterritorial rights
space station
Huguenots
4. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
four noble truths
capitalism
domestic system
aristocracy
5. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
Dadaism
psychoanalysis
armistice
world trade organization
6. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
domestic system
space shuttle
stele
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
7. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
qanat
junkers
Utopian socialist
time of troubles
8. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
island-hopping
feminist
collective bargaining
factors of production
9. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
mameduke
icon
genocide
helsinki accords
10. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
stoicism
Holocaust
nation-stae
mercantilism
11. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
Balkans
caravanserials
burgher
millet
12. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
one-child policy
consumerism
stem cell research
kinship group
13. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
divine right of kings
Nuremberg trials
empire
icon
14. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
helot
ghetto
mandate of heaven
harem
15. French Protestants
scientific revolution
Huguenots
polytheism
theory of evolution
16. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
joint-stock company
duma
zen Buddhism
five pillars
17. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
enlightened despot
global village
human cloning
emir
18. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
armistice
Columbian exchange
proletariat
predestination
19. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
Magyars
Catholic reformation
cubism
philosopher
20. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
social Darwinism
scorched- earth policy
luftwaffe
final solution
21. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
triple alliance
collective farming
Australopithecus
22. The power to prevent the execution of law
ayatollah
McDonaldization
veto
messiah
23. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
creole
Warsaw pact
rotten borough
Manchaeism
24. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
predestination
Reconquest
comedy
laissez-faire
25. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
world trade center
apartheid
animism
loess
26. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
third world
edict of Nantes
realism
Ka'aba
27. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
plebeian
jainissary
Sepoys
geneva conference
28. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
people of the book
specialization of labor
stupa
joint-stock company
29. The Jewish day of atonement
predestination
council of Trent
Yom Kippur
McDonaldization
30. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
geneva conference
truncated pyramid
enlightened despot
empire
31. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
estates-general
four modernizations
nicene creed
trench warfare
32. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
diocese
republic
macadam road
creole
33. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
Warsaw pact
scientific revolution
civil disobedience
polytheism
34. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
zen Buddhism
nirvana
urdu
specialization of labor
35. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
Atlantic Charter
devshirme
diocese
African National Congress
36. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Anabaptists
Deism
social contract
kinship group
37. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
gulf of tonkin resolution
bushido
space shuttle
nicene creed
38. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
feminist
griot
duma
plebeian
39. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Huns
dowry death
totalitarian state
consumerism
40. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
triple entente
global village
Brahmin
predestination
41. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
archeology
shinto
bourgeoisie
hieroglyphics
42. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
appeasement
satellite nation
detente
McDonaldization
43. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
world trade center
shariah
jainissary
hijra
44. 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
operation Barbarossa
Huns
Balkans
45. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
DNA dating
Dar al- Islam
Tamils
46. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
silk roads
apprenticeship
Reconquest
Homo sapiens
47. A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and 18th centuries stating that human beings were basically good and could be further improved through education - and upholding reason as the key to truth
Balfour Declaration
Bell Act
specialization of labor
enlightenment
48. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
armistice
Palestine liberation organization
genocide
Warsaw pact
49. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
bourgeoisie
cuneiform
utilitarian
treaty of Versailles
50. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
hominid
Cultural Revolution
forbidden city
fief
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