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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. A sole ruler with absolute power
dictator
McDonaldization
encomienda
oracle bone
2. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
containment
guild
fourteen points
epicureanism
3. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
civilization
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
major domo
Lend- Lease Act
4. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
seppuku
civil rights movement
samurai
abolition
5. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
conservative
hajj
separation of powers
shogun
6. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
theory of relativity
lebnsraum
iconoclastic controversy
apprenticeship
7. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
comedy
dharma
apprenticeship
fief
8. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
protectorate
ziggurat
artifact
legitimacy
9. The study of humans as a species
emir
anthropology
fourteen points
peninsular
10. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
nation-stae
chivalry
philosopher
external migration
11. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
middle passage
dowry death
Huns
Truman doctrine
12. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
surrealism
world trade center
theory of evolution
burgess
13. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
terra cotta
cuneiform
guest workers
new deal
14. A Latin American military dictator
neolithic age
thermoluminescent dating
caudillo
economic imperialism
15. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
archeology
council of Trent
third world
sati
16. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
desalinization
totalitarian state
realism
strategic defense initiative
17. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
Tamils
society of Jesus
jainissary
diaspora
18. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
steppe
nirvana
containment
monsoon
19. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
papal states
junkers
psychoanalysis
harem
20. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
macadam road
social contract
epicureanism
Manchaeism
21. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
archaeology
balance of power
city-state
enlightened despot
22. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
four noble truths
Afrikaner
icon
23. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
fourteen points
city-state
icon
great lap forward
24. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
operation sea lion
Deism
silk roads
peninsular
25. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
mameduke
kibbutzim
thermoluminescnce dating
absolute monarch
26. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
rotten borough
nicene creed
radiocarbon dating
junkers
27. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
separation of powers
blitzkrieg
pastoral nomadism
Taliban
28. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
philosopher
McDonaldization
caudillo
stele
29. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
human cloning
stoicism
daimyo
homeland
30. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
genocide
poliburo
enclosure movement
bushi
31. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
poliburo
stream of consciousness
sakk
pasteurization
32. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
kamikaze
patrician
third world
civil service system
33. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
Bosporus Strait
time of troubles
consul
serf
34. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
chivalry
kibbutzim
sakk
dharma
35. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
world health organization
theocracy
genocide
existentialism
36. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
cuneiform
liberal
karma
foraging
37. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
tribune
chivalry
estates-general
38. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
nonalignment
nongovernmental organization
emir
space station
39. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
seppuku
realism
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
lateen sail
40. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
griot
Bosporus Strait
umma
capital
41. A German emperor
umma
ziggurat
kaiser
mestizo
42. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
karma
iconoclastic controversy
mandate
umma
43. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
eightfold path
hajj
glyph
apartheid
44. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
zen Buddhism
age grade
terra cotta
scorched- earth policy
45. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
internal migration
reparation
patriarchal
karma
46. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
geocentric theory
Dadaism
final solution
ethnic cleansing
47. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
sati
steppe
homeland
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
48. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
u-boats
pastoral nomadism
indulgence
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
49. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
rotten borough
major domo
diaspora
Royal Road
50. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
millet
Warsaw pact
theory of relativity
hubris
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