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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
zen Buddhism
green revolution
anthropology
diaspora
2. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
Anabaptists
hubris
helsinki accords
caste
3. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
glasnost
concession
constitutional monarchy
stem cell research
4. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
shah
feudalism
radiocarbon dating
dynasty
5. The power to prevent the execution of law
jainissary
veto
gospel
communism
6. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
steppe
Bolsheviks
theory of evolution
homeland
7. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
steppe
proletariat
postdam conference
Lend- Lease Act
8. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
indulgence
triumvirate
new deal
steppe
9. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
Balfour Declaration
dictator
shia
silk roads
10. 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
island-hopping
hijra
encomienda
11. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
Brahmin
silk roads
messiah
socialism
12. 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
Lend- Lease Act
usury
island-hopping
caravel
13. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
marshall plan
propaganda
purdah
balance of power
14. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
diaspora
Justinian Code
ethnic cleansing
hajj
15. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
new deal
island-hopping
loess
internal migration
16. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
world trade organization
reparation
Manhattan project
kowtow
17. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
stream of consciousness
Reconquest
social contract
cuneiform
18. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
scorched- earth policy
parallel descent
capital
specialization of labor
19. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
operation Barbarossa
urdu
laissez-faire
command economy
20. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
suffrage
Bosporus Strait
civil service system
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
21. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
surrealism
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
theory of evolution
domestic system
22. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
edict of Nantes
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
iconoclastic controversy
euro
23. Marriage to more than one wife
polygamy
entrepreneurship
shia
Cyrillic alphabet
24. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
nongovernmental organization
civilization
council of Trent
four modernizations
25. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
consul
diocese
internal migration
helot
26. 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
balance of power
enlightenment
Mongol Peace
Atlantic Charter
27. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
devshirme
forbidden city
Bell Act
major domo
28. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
pariah
pastoral nomadism
poliburo
Neolithic Revolution
29. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
DNA dating
chlorofluorocarbons
social contract
nation-stae
30. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
enclosure movement
genocide
code of Hammurabi
imperialism
31. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
sphere of influence
Cyrillic alphabet
nonalignment
32. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
Yalta Conference
multinational corporation
socialism
thermoluminescnce dating
33. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
Homo sapiens
repartamiento
philosopher
yin and yang
34. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
nongovernmental organization
final solution
mestizo
multinational corporation
35. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
nationalism
sunni
radiocarbon dating
four tigers
36. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
guild
sunni
totalitarian state
czar (tsar)
37. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
geneva conference
multinational corporation
Holocaust
scientific revolution
38. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
encomienda
Yom Kippur
neolithic age
mercantilism
39. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
surrealism
coalition
estates-general
Sikhs
40. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
Boers
seppuku
jazz
parallel descent
41. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
patrician
fascism
league of nations
mercantilism
42. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Hagia Sophia
democratization
oracle bone
hominid
43. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
British Commonwealth
kamikaze
commercial revolution
chivalry
44. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
mandate
Neo- Confucianism
millet
cuneiform
45. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
eightfold path
Bosporus Strait
dynasty
millet
46. 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
estate
Dadaism
impressionism
apostle
47. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
Yahweh
nation-stae
tribune
command economy
48. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
enlightened despot
Australopithecus
Tamils
Reconquest
49. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
purdah
totalitarian state
guild
thermoluminescent dating
50. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
monsoon
bushido
nirvana
extraterritorial rights
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