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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
jazz
enlightened despot
kaiser
rotten borough
2. The technology associated with the application of robots
civil rights movement
robotics
trench warfare
hieroglyphics
3. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
eightfold path
age grade
consumerism
seppuku
4. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
bushido
Truman doctrine
marathon
lateen sail
5. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
ghetto
satellite nation
apartheid
caravanserials
6. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
Balkans
fief
code of Hammurabi
constitutional monarchy
7. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
missi dominici
civil disobedience
polygamy
guild
8. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
astrolabe
appeasement
Swahili
encomienda
9. The study of humans as a species
society of Jesus
duma
anthropology
armistice
10. The right to vote
Kellogg-Briand Pact
middle passage
tree-ring dating
suffrage
11. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
nicene creed
nonalignment
commune
artifacts
12. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
radiocarbon dating
encomienda
Sepoys
Catholic reformation
13. Describes a male-dominated society
time of troubles
kamikaze
millet
patriarchal
14. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
pogram
mestizo
operation Barbarossa
empire
15. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
iconoclastic controversy
manga carta
coalition
stupa
16. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
soviet
time of troubles
city-state
Manchaeism
17. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
scientific revolution
artifact
specialization of labor
global village
18. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
estate
abolition
Bolsheviks
Hagia Sophia
19. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
usury
world trade center
European Union
patriarchal
20. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
council of Trent
push-pull factors
archaeology
green revolution
21. 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
social Darwinism
guild
middle passage
internal migration
22. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
DNA dating
animism
diaspora
African National Congress
23. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
empire
suffrage
Lend- Lease Act
repartamiento
24. 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
Huns
Bolsheviks
enlightenment
golden mean
25. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
push-pull factors
Homo sapiens
reparation
nation-stae
26. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
mestizo
space probe
Sikhs
bushi
27. The dissemination of materials or messages to promote one's own cause or diminish the cause of an adversary
jazz
Dadaism
propaganda
parallel descent
28. 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
balance of power
checks and balances
triple alliance
stupa
29. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Royal Road
manor
duma
mercantilism
30. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
hieroglyphics
daimyo
Tarah
green revolution
31. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
glasnost
entrepreneurship
one-child policy
realpolitik
32. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
purdah
parliament
external migration
anthropology
33. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
dynasty
homeland
nirvana
Balkans
34. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
realism
kibbutzim
socialism
laissez-faire
35. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
chinampa
luftwaffe
karma
armistice
36. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
mandate of heaven
harem
hominid
pogram
37. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
ziggurat
five-year plans
polygamy
reactionary
38. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
estate
mercantilism
sunni
Homo sapiens
39. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
icon
city-state
tree-ring dating
Anabaptists
40. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
people of the book
Ka'aba
commercial revolution
five-year plans
41. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
triangular trade
scorched- earth policy
consul
burgher
42. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
commercial agriculture
moderate
legitimacy
checks and balances
43. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
radical
polygamy
Yalta Conference
robotics
44. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
feudalism
green revolution
collective farming
balance of power
45. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
moderate
African National Congress
civil service system
archeology
46. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
paleontologists
romanticism
reactionary
archeology
47. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
Australopithecus
code of Hammurabi
Renaissance
operation overlord
48. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
stream of consciousness
time of troubles
quipu
world health organization
49. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
desalinization
detente
mameduke
Shiva
50. A German emperor
kaiser
Yahweh
pogram
council of Trent
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