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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
third reich
artifacts
radiocarbon dating
communism
2. A 26 mile race
latifundia
Boers
marathon
theory of evolution
3. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
apartheid
African National Congress
forbidden city
feudalism
4. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
people of the book
satellite nation
icon
quipu
5. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
hajj
astrolabe
operation sea lion
appeasement
6. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
creole
qanat
divine right of kings
guild
7. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
apartheid
philosopher
kamikaze
command economy
8. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
natural selection
hellenistic culture
loess
guest workers
9. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
civil service system
zen Buddhism
age grade
ziggurat
10. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
gulf of tonkin resolution
quinine
repartamiento
Homo sapiens
11. The Muslim name for God
democratization
Allah
artifact
Utopian socialist
12. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
treaty of Versailles
umma
hubris
ethnic cleansing
13. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
specialization of labor
concession
icon
pogram
14. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
edict of Nantes
steppe
Tarah
city-state
15. The worship of many gods
polytheism
yin and yang
Tamils
kamikaze
16. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
caravel
Bolsheviks
Warsaw pact
absolute monarch
17. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Warsaw pact
Justinian Code
peace crops
ghazi
18. Large estate in ancient Rome
nonalignment
latifundia
civil disobedience
imperialism
19. Russian Parliament
hellenistic culture
duma
griot
Sikhs
20. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
Utopian socialist
sakk
collective farming
iconoclastic controversy
21. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
Bosporus Strait
estates-general
poliburo
stream of consciousness
22. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
ghazi
humanism
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Lend- Lease Act
23. The german air force
luftwaffe
manga carta
artifacts
ayatollah
24. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
kaiser
shariah
stateless society
mandate of heaven
25. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
new economic policy
pastoral nomadism
Warsaw pact
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
26. Member of elite class in ancient rome
patrician
treaty of Versailles
helsinki accords
republic
27. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
legion
benefice
comedy
Taliban
28. A grant of land in medieval Europe
capital
lateen sail
fief
qanat
29. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
golden mean
truncated pyramid
ayatollah
mandate of heaven
30. The study of humans as a species
totalitarian state
seppuku
anthropology
surrealism
31. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
stateless society
totalitarian state
nation-stae
astrolabe
32. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
missi dominici
lateen sail
dynasty
yin and yang
33. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
colony
nirvana
commercial revolution
34. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
radiocarbon dating
factors of production
tribune
35. According to Darwin;s theory of evolution - process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest
astrolabe
natural selection
archaeology
laissez-faire
36. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
conservative
nonalignment
four noble truths
scorched- earth policy
37. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
gulf of tonkin resolution
fief
global village
colony
38. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
Lend- Lease Act
internal migration
burgher
human cloning
39. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
helsinki accords
middle passage
Yalta Conference
homeland
40. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
conservative
humanism
mystery religion
cubism
41. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
code of Hammurabi
Columbian exchange
realpolitik
plebeian
42. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
reparation
middle passage
operation sea lion
feminist
43. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
Balfour Declaration
epicureanism
cynicism
robotics
44. The dissemination of materials or messages to promote one's own cause or diminish the cause of an adversary
propaganda
commercial agriculture
encomienda
griot
45. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
global village
forbidden city
anthropology
DNA dating
46. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
yin and yang
collective bargaining
five-year plans
helsinki accords
47. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
Dadaism
umma
senate
aristocracy
48. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
proletariat
animism
thermoluminescent dating
49. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
bourgeoisie
age grade
Deism
cuneiform
50. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
purdah
great lap forward
radical