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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. 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
Inquisition
Lend- Lease Act
parallel descent
sunni
2. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Kellogg-Briand Pact
guild
kamikaze
appeasement
3. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
psychoanalysis
stateless society
glasnost
radical
4. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
guest workers
Homo sapiens
burqa
legion
5. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
ghazi
burqa
qanat
psychoanalysis
6. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
stateless society
treaty of tordesillas
Taliban
functionalism
7. 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
archeology
ghazi
social Darwinism
lebnsraum
8. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
mandate of heaven
estates-general
external migration
Manhattan project
9. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
forbidden city
pasteurization
quinine
laissez-faire
10. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
polytheism
Columbian exchange
artifacts
treaty of tordesillas
11. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
yin and yang
collective bargaining
mensheviks
Boers
12. A Persian king
ziggurat
shah
ghetto
oracle bone
13. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
civil service system
Brahmin
sati
golden mean
14. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
shah
nongovernmental organization
pogram
Atlantic Charter
15. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
reparation
quipu
anthropology
Dar al- Islam
16. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
gospel
ethnic cleansing
Sikhs
protectorate
17. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
urdu
mestizo
tragedy
Brahmin
18. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
cuneiform
democratization
marshall plan
kowtow
19. Russian emperor
bushido
theory of relativity
consumerism
czar (tsar)
20. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
radiocarbon dating
constitutional monarchy
Huns
balance of power
21. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
sakk
nirvana
dynasty
Yom Kippur
22. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
terra cotta
five-year plans
DNA dating
hajj
23. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
reparation
five-year plans
devshirme
nation-stae
24. The study of humans as a species
kibbutzim
anthropology
people of the book
African National Congress
25. The belief in one god
monotheism
Yom Kippur
seppuku
world health organization
26. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
armistice
Dadaism
Magyars
macadam road
27. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
European Union
lebnsraum
Shiva
sati
28. 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
social contract
daimyo
mystery religion
fourteen points
29. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Reconquest
satellite nation
usury
robotics
30. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
monotheism
Sepoys
Sikhs
patrician
31. The symbol used as part of a writing system
devshirme
glyph
bourgeoisie
space shuttle
32. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
millet
Justinian Code
rotten borough
burgher
33. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
space station
absolute monarch
umma
treaty of tordesillas
34. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
scorched- earth policy
czar (tsar)
cubism
shinto
35. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
functionalism
five pillars
ghetto
36. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
domino theory
mercantilism
joint-stock company
Dar al- Islam
37. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
radiocarbon dating
Australopithecus
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
collective farming
38. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
hominid
purdah
absolute monarch
Utopian socialist
39. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
world trade center
monsoon
external migration
burgher
40. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
Ka'aba
impressionism
mensheviks
stream of consciousness
41. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
surrealism
Sikhs
caste
society of Jesus
42. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
artifacts
hubris
lebnsraum
psychoanalysis
43. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
code of Hammurabi
philosopher
Yom Kippur
papal states
44. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
desalinization
geocentric theory
glyph
soviet
45. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
realism
society of Jesus
lebnsraum
stoicism
46. French Protestants
Huguenots
Justinian Code
diaspora
internal migration
47. 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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48. Agreement between the united states and the Philippines that granted the Filipinos war damages in exchange for the establishment of free trade between the Philippines and the United States
gulf of tonkin resolution
Bell Act
Anabaptists
Atlantic Charter
49. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
reactionary
postdam conference
vietnamization
Afrikaner
50. A humanlike creature that walks upright
epicureanism
bushido
hominid
coalition