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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
latifundia
council of Trent
specialization of labor
one-child policy
2. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
nonalignment
manga carta
sunni
bushido
3. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
guild
Catholic reformation
kowtow
daimyo
4. An antimalarial drug
Nuremberg trials
quinine
hajj
latifundia
5. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
blitzkrieg
radiocarbon dating
kibbutzim
Zionism
6. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
umma
hubris
daimyo
manor
7. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
enlightenment
nationalism
iconoclastic controversy
city-state
8. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
commercial revolution
strategic defense initiative
Zionism
Justinian Code
9. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
desalinization
Mongol Peace
treaty of tordesillas
Yalta Conference
10. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
apartheid
nationalism
Yalta Conference
existentialism
11. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
fresco
patrician
dynasty
hieroglyphics
12. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
steppe
postdam conference
Bolsheviks
commercial revolution
13. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Deism
sakk
Dadaism
harem
14. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
feudalism
veto
third world
parallel descent
15. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
glyph
foraging
chinampa
covenant
16. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
major domo
coalition
qanat
dowry death
17. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
push-pull factors
desalinization
mau mau
lateen sail
18. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
Neo- Confucianism
shia
shah
third world
19. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
operation sea lion
shinto
archaeology
sphere of influence
20. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
commercial agriculture
sakk
poliburo
commercial revolution
21. The right of a dynasty to rule
DNA dating
justification by faith
African National Congress
legitimacy
22. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
internal migration
colony
cynicism
totalitarian state
23. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
anthropology
economic imperialism
African National Congress
pasteurization
24. A warrior for islam
tyrant
operation overlord
triple entente
ghazi
25. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
apostle
laissez-faire
five-year plans
manga carta
26. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
anthropology
paleolithic age
people of the book
guomindang
27. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
monotheism
jazz
world trade organization
Warsaw pact
28. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
Utopian socialist
latifundia
peninsular
African National Congress
29. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
shah
colony
paleolithic age
caudillo
30. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
cynicism
Balfour Declaration
thermoluminescnce dating
suffrage
31. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
Catholic reformation
Sepoys
apartheid
theory of relativity
32. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
foraging
ghetto
humanism
33. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
cubism
Balkans
predestination
macadam road
34. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
cynicism
extraterritorial rights
four tigers
stoicism
35. German submarines
Boers
Utopian socialist
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
u-boats
36. 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
peace crops
five-year plans
final solution
balance of power
37. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
Atlantic Charter
oracle bone
cynicism
romanticism
38. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
qanat
seppuku
artifact
Cyrillic alphabet
39. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
Nuremberg trials
euro
domino theory
Homo sapiens
40. A series of examinations given to determine qualifications for government- related jobs
tragedy
vietnamization
commercial revolution
civil service system
41. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
Reconquest
ayatollah
griot
42. 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
Kellogg-Briand Pact
social Darwinism
u-boats
polis
43. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
chivalry
propaganda
pastoral nomadism
Brahmin
44. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
Nuremberg trials
containment
scientific revolution
dynasty
45. Objects shaped by humans
Dadaism
artifacts
Bell Act
astrolabe
46. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
qanat
romanticism
radiocarbon dating
space shuttle
47. French Protestants
Huguenots
five-year plans
Sepoys
thermoluminescent dating
48. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
radiocarbon dating
aristocracy
consumerism
artifacts
49. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
archaeology
propaganda
messiah
laissez-faire
50. The organized elimination of an entire population group
collective farming
genocide
anthropology
satellite nation