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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. 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
jainissary
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
social Darwinism
diaspora
2. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
commercial agriculture
qanat
mau mau
appeasement
3. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
pariah
Justinian Code
junkers
manor
4. The termination of slavery
propaganda
entrepreneurship
abolition
trench warfare
5. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
eightfold path
anthropology
human cloning
propaganda
6. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
diaspora
Palestine liberation organization
artifacts
mameduke
7. The german air force
Protestant Reformation
council of Trent
luftwaffe
helot
8. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
theory of evolution
Bosporus Strait
code of Hammurabi
creole
9. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
brinkmanship
kowtow
specialization of labor
tree-ring dating
10. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
external migration
city-state
proletariat
perestroika
11. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
czar (tsar)
desalinization
European Union
empire
12. One who disagrees; a dissenter
proletariat
Reconquest
Inquisition
dissident
13. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
code of Hammurabi
diaspora
scientific revolution
Dadaism
14. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
DNA dating
icon
archaeology
Sepoys
15. The Muslim name for God
Allah
shi
theocracy
caravanserials
16. Russian emperor
British Commonwealth
czar (tsar)
edict of Nantes
middle passage
17. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
socialism
comedy
Justinian Code
oracle bone
18. A government of three rulers
new economic policy
impressionism
triumvirate
enlightenment
19. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
specialization of labor
natural selection
colony
anthropology
20. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
polygamy
bourgeoisie
geneva conference
harem
21. The organized elimination of an entire population group
apostle
genocide
purdah
yin and yang
22. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Catholic reformation
peace crops
moderate
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
23. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
senate
theory of relativity
Protestant Reformation
civilization
24. The right to vote
legion
feminist
polygamy
suffrage
25. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
duma
shi
economic imperialism
domino theory
26. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
glasnost
polis
socialism
Yalta Conference
27. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
sunni
world trade organization
ethnic cleansing
enlightenment
28. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
civil disobedience
commercial agriculture
polygamy
shinto
29. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
four noble truths
Neolithic Revolution
radical
Dar al- Islam
30. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
polygamy
geocentric theory
trench warfare
patrician
31. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
geocentric theory
karma
kibbutzim
parallel descent
32. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Columbian exchange
mercantilism
covenant
Justinian Code
33. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
operation sea lion
Sepoys
strategic defense initiative
commercial revolution
34. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
nongovernmental organization
czar (tsar)
DNA dating
emir
35. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
scientific revolution
theocracy
command economy
Inquisition
36. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
devshirme
romanticism
encomienda
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
37. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
euro
communism
league of nations
Yom Kippur
38. A 1945 conference help at post damn - Germany in which Truman and Churchill met with Stalin to attempt to persuade him to abandon his policy of domination of the soviet satellite nations
capitalism
postdam conference
guest workers
eightfold path
39. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
caravel
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
harem
illuminated manuscript
40. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Warsaw pact
dowry death
manor
satellite nation
41. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
shah
McDonaldization
Kellogg-Briand Pact
usury
42. A Muslim ruler
fourteen points
creole
emir
eightfold path
43. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
nicene creed
burqa
push-pull factors
trench warfare
44. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
indulgence
neolithic age
pariah
functionalism
45. The technology associated with the application of robots
fief
people of the book
u-boats
robotics
46. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
caravel
Deism
tree-ring dating
usury
47. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Holocaust
Huns
council of Trent
junkers
48. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
new economic policy
iconoclastic controversy
yin and yang
neolithic age
49. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
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50. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
constitutional monarchy
containment
age grade
Kellogg-Briand Pact
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