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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
justification by faith
repartamiento
hieroglyphics
2. The five duties required of all Muslims: faith -prayer -alms -fasting during Ramadan - and the hajj
daimyo
five pillars
polygamy
kamikaze
3. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
detente
apprenticeship
operation sea lion
peninsular
4. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
enclosure movement
specialization of labor
jazz
socialism
5. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
hubris
Boers
steppe
patrician
6. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
Zionism
aristocracy
command economy
glasnost
7. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
kamikaze
constitutional monarchy
caste
patrician
8. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
shi
moderate
cuneiform
republic
9. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
feminist
millet
geneva conference
dynasty
10. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
enlightened despot
estates-general
neolithic age
caudillo
11. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
triple alliance
patriarch
helsinki accords
shinto
12. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
icon
satellite nation
Taliban
forbidden city
13. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
plebeian
Justinian Code
Boers
civil disobedience
14. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
Sepoys
ghetto
Nuremberg trials
domino theory
15. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
Shiva
jazz
intifada
peninsular
16. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
satellite nation
vassal
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
shogun
17. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
McDonaldization
Lend- Lease Act
qanat
operation overlord
18. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
Australopithecus
Royal Road
communism
entrepreneurship
19. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
coalition
yin and yang
hellenistic culture
diocese
20. A delclaration advocating free - document signed by FDR and Churchill that expressed all of their intents in WWII - including that they sought no territorial gain - wouldn't allow a territorial change without the consent of all parties involved - an
loess
chlorofluorocarbons
four tigers
Atlantic Charter
21. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
democratization
senate
Palestine liberation organization
specialization of labor
22. 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
veto
intifada
edict of Nantes
social Darwinism
23. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
moderate
Inquisition
civilization
containment
24. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
caravanserials
abolition
Reconquest
soviet
25. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
senate
world trade organization
perestroika
robotics
26. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
operation overlord
purdah
Renaissance
fourteen points
27. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
paleolithic age
Zionism
DNA dating
28. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
pogram
kaiser
cynicism
proletariat
29. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
desalinization
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Truman doctrine
blitzkrieg
30. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
armistice
conservative
guest workers
ayatollah
31. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
helot
island-hopping
astrolabe
radiocarbon dating
32. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
age grade
blitzkrieg
geneva conference
caudillo
33. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
benefice
geocentric theory
guild
triangular trade
34. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
illuminated manuscript
bushido
militarism
aristocracy
35. The german air force
liberal
luftwaffe
constitutional monarchy
triple alliance
36. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
Atlantic Charter
Cultural Revolution
Brahmin
world trade center
37. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
Holocaust
nicene creed
terra cotta
peace crops
38. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
Holocaust
yin and yang
capital
kaiser
39. Russian emperor
czar (tsar)
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
creole
geocentric theory
40. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
laissez-faire
peace crops
operation sea lion
nicene creed
41. An object shaped by humans
treaty of Versailles
triple entente
artifact
green revolution
42. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
imperialism
poliburo
Australopithecus
five-year plans
43. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
burqa
island-hopping
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
fascism
44. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
theory of evolution
Neo- Confucianism
tree-ring dating
Holocaust
45. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
sphere of influence
purdah
Ka'aba
cuneiform
46. French Protestants
Huguenots
push-pull factors
guild
psychoanalysis
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
indulgence
quinine
enlightenment
daimyo
48. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
ethnic cleansing
gospel
Taliban
external migration
49. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
caravanserials
concession
animism
truncated pyramid
50. Muslim social and ethical law
karma
Zionism
impressionism
shariah