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SAT Subject Test: World History
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1. The five duties required of all Muslims: faith -prayer -alms -fasting during Ramadan - and the hajj
Ka'aba
five pillars
messiah
joint-stock company
2. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
estates-general
strategic defense initiative
Nuremberg trials
cubism
3. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
edict of Nantes
treaty of tordesillas
kibbutzim
daimyo
4. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
collective farming
Catholic reformation
triumvirate
kamikaze
5. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
animism
pogram
satrap
abolition
6. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
mercantilism
bourgeoisie
British Commonwealth
Renaissance
7. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
triple alliance
legion
pariah
Afrikaner
8. A sole ruler with absolute power
dictator
bourgeoisie
helot
paleolithic age
9. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
commercial revolution
postdam conference
democratization
sakk
10. French Protestants
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Huguenots
Bosporus Strait
caravel
11. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
empire
world trade organization
qanat
Bolsheviks
12. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
major domo
desalinization
stele
radiocarbon dating
13. A grant of land in medieval Europe
fief
imperialism
nicene creed
veto
14. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
diocese
manor
predestination
civil service system
15. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
geocentric theory
apprenticeship
armistice
thermoluminescnce dating
16. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
impressionism
laissez-faire
mandate of heaven
manga carta
17. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
pariah
thermoluminescent dating
realpolitik
coalition
18. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
millet
new economic policy
imperialism
zen Buddhism
19. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
purdah
latifundia
space probe
operation Barbarossa
20. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
pastoral nomadism
hellenistic culture
reactionary
stem cell research
21. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
reactionary
Reconquest
dowry death
Palestine liberation organization
22. The organized elimination of an entire population group
space station
edict of Nantes
urdu
genocide
23. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
archeology
Yalta Conference
Allah
fascism
24. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
Manhattan project
rotten borough
civil disobedience
kibbutzim
25. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
glasnost
extraterritorial rights
people of the book
empire
26. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
pasteurization
nationalism
laissez-faire
mobilization
27. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
pastoral nomadism
containment
apartheid
commune
28. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
rotten borough
animism
Huguenots
joint-stock company
29. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
proletariat
encomienda
Bolsheviks
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
30. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
lateen sail
Balfour Declaration
papal states
polygamy
31. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Deism
four noble truths
reactionary
domino theory
32. 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
Bell Act
shi
Kellogg-Briand Pact
fresco
33. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
consumerism
coalition
diaspora
repartamiento
34. An Incan record keeping device that consisted of a cord from which were suspended a number of cords - each containing a variety of knots of various sizes shapes and colors
factors of production
burgher
quipu
one-child policy
35. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
Swahili
artifact
Mongol Peace
messiah
36. A 26 mile race
marathon
capitalism
radical
peace crops
37. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
paleontologists
people of the book
Australopithecus
guild
38. 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
manga carta
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
communism
Lend- Lease Act
39. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
scorched- earth policy
hubris
archaeology
rotten borough
40. 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
British Commonwealth
enlightenment
samurai
nicene creed
41. 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
society of Jesus
artifact
great lap forward
paleontologists
42. 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
seppuku
robotics
gospel
checks and balances
43. The termination of slavery
detente
protectorate
homeland
abolition
44. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
dynasty
utilitarian
bourgeoisie
sphere of influence
45. A national legislature assembly
Deism
gulf of tonkin resolution
fourteen points
parliament
46. A greak city-state
feminist
middle passage
commercial revolution
polis
47. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
tyrant
dynasty
burgher
proletariat
48. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
middle passage
terra cotta
papal states
estate
49. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
collective farming
Columbian exchange
parallel descent
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
50. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
third world
homeland
artifact
poliburo
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