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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
Tarah
ghetto
robotics
middle passage
2. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
reactionary
intifada
euro
sakk
3. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
functionalism
sati
Brahmin
consumerism
4. The power to prevent the execution of law
third reich
feudalism
veto
multinational corporation
5. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
humanism
vietnamization
collective farming
mau mau
6. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
Columbian exchange
Bell Act
hominid
purdah
7. Marriage to more than one wife
Neo- Confucianism
capitalism
u-boats
polygamy
8. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
sakk
manor
enlightenment
shia
9. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
genocide
silk roads
entrepreneurship
comedy
10. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
stream of consciousness
homeland
Mongol Peace
Sikhs
11. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
council of Trent
theory of evolution
enlightened despot
command economy
12. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
Bell Act
marshall plan
Yalta Conference
tragedy
13. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
Afrikaner
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
archaeology
karma
14. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
manor
bushi
encomienda
joint-stock company
15. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
rotten borough
Sikhs
theory of evolution
proletariat
16. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
romanticism
bushi
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
forbidden city
17. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
paleolithic age
world trade center
tree-ring dating
Boers
18. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
epicureanism
parallel descent
burgess
messiah
19. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
civilization
jainissary
pariah
Deism
20. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
operation sea lion
artifact
entrepreneurship
Inquisition
21. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
chivalry
dharma
realpolitik
Balkans
22. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
dictator
detente
Bosporus Strait
bushido
23. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
burqa
league of nations
manor
vassal
24. 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
hijra
fresco
Royal Road
25. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
mau mau
Balfour Declaration
realpolitik
protectorate
26. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
helsinki accords
helot
gospel
absolute monarch
27. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
Kellogg-Briand Pact
jainissary
junkers
lateen sail
28. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
extraterritorial rights
suffrage
one-child policy
chivalry
29. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
loess
stele
realpolitik
civil disobedience
30. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
umma
burgher
impressionism
peninsular
31. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
consul
external migration
Yahweh
mandate of heaven
32. Involves obtaining samples of the genetic material of DNA from living donors and comparing it with the DNA from other persons or from animals computers and then are used to determine the rate of change in the DNA
peace crops
helot
DNA dating
Manhattan project
33. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
loess
Columbian exchange
griot
hellenistic culture
34. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
multinational corporation
new economic policy
proletariat
space probe
35. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
civil service system
hieroglyphics
nation-stae
cuneiform
36. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
treaty of Versailles
estate
senate
kinship group
37. Russian Parliament
duma
imperialism
truncated pyramid
middle passage
38. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
perestroika
DNA dating
natural selection
39. 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
zen Buddhism
bourgeoisie
checks and balances
entrepreneurship
40. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
enlightened despot
chinampa
paleolithic age
hieroglyphics
41. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
treaty of tordesillas
nation-stae
theory of evolution
collective farming
42. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
mandate
qanat
estates-general
global village
43. Muslim social and ethical law
thermoluminescent dating
totalitarian state
shariah
appeasement
44. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
scorched- earth policy
green revolution
gulf of tonkin resolution
45. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
brinkmanship
desalinization
protectorate
gospel
46. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
golden mean
tree-ring dating
legion
manga carta
47. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
shia
African National Congress
estate
kinship group
48. 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
enlightenment
satellite nation
fourteen points
pariah
49. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
commercial agriculture
seppuku
cubism
hellenistic culture
50. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
new economic policy
patrician
capital
macadam road
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