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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. An object shaped by humans
artifact
domestic system
Inquisition
caravanserials
2. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
repartamiento
ghetto
radiocarbon dating
animism
3. A warrior for islam
euro
imperialism
ghazi
capital
4. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Catholic reformation
appeasement
code of Hammurabi
gospel
5. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
covenant
island-hopping
economic imperialism
glasnost
6. A Persian king
geocentric theory
shah
Yalta Conference
mau mau
7. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
kibbutzim
encomienda
communism
command economy
8. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
bushi
stateless society
radiocarbon dating
shinto
9. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
Manchaeism
golden mean
steppe
covenant
10. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
devshirme
czar (tsar)
guild
guomindang
11. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
neolithic age
mobilization
Yalta Conference
comedy
12. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
u-boats
glasnost
council of Trent
macadam road
13. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
qanat
internal migration
kibbutzim
great lap forward
14. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
ayatollah
Sepoys
Utopian socialist
mercantilism
15. 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
Bosporus Strait
peace crops
Homo sapiens
euro
16. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
radiocarbon dating
Sikhs
commercial agriculture
dynasty
17. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
concession
bourgeoisie
legion
apartheid
18. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
marshall plan
usury
aristocracy
checks and balances
19. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
one-child policy
domino theory
thermoluminescent dating
impressionism
20. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
quinine
coalition
fief
Protestant Reformation
21. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
indulgence
Palestine liberation organization
lateen sail
stupa
22. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
pastoral nomadism
Atlantic Charter
urdu
emir
23. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
peace crops
kamikaze
bourgeoisie
strategic defense initiative
24. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
new deal
command economy
hellenistic culture
five-year plans
25. The Muslim name for God
indulgence
Allah
bushi
nonalignment
26. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
Manhattan project
burqa
encomienda
one-child policy
27. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
kowtow
reparation
triangular trade
parliament
28. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
epicureanism
oracle bone
estates-general
collective bargaining
29. A greak city-state
stoicism
new economic policy
polis
caravanserials
30. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
civil disobedience
nongovernmental organization
griot
triumvirate
31. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
genocide
hubris
reactionary
great lap forward
32. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
shinto
estates-general
steppe
Anabaptists
33. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
city-state
satrap
feminist
theory of relativity
34. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
divine right of kings
karma
totalitarian state
Ka'aba
35. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
major domo
rotten borough
laissez-faire
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
36. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
golden mean
chivalry
global village
archeology
37. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
golden mean
dynasty
kowtow
apprenticeship
38. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
civil rights movement
Australopithecus
fourteen points
external migration
39. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
protectorate
umma
predestination
illuminated manuscript
40. Russian emperor
people of the book
triple entente
czar (tsar)
macadam road
41. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
communism
Neolithic Revolution
iconoclastic controversy
42. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
Deism
diaspora
lateen sail
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
43. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
parliament
sunni
Huns
golden mean
44. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Sepoys
Columbian exchange
geneva conference
45. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
tree-ring dating
aristocracy
third reich
epicureanism
46. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
stream of consciousness
tyrant
nicene creed
glasnost
47. An advocate of gradual political change
covenant
nirvana
conservative
perestroika
48. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
vietnamization
natural selection
genocide
push-pull factors
49. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
society of Jesus
DNA dating
mandate
Bosporus Strait
50. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
tragedy
silk roads
totalitarian state
comedy
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