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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A Latin American military dictator
realpolitik
predestination
caudillo
foraging
2. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
impressionism
new economic policy
British Commonwealth
fresco
3. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
pogram
civil rights movement
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
paleolithic age
4. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
time of troubles
estate
satellite nation
ziggurat
5. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
archaeology
dowry death
thermoluminescent dating
consumerism
6. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
artifacts
philosopher
appeasement
Allah
7. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
proletariat
people of the book
terra cotta
realpolitik
8. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
society of Jesus
Yalta Conference
mensheviks
Mongol Peace
9. A political system in which a monarch or noble granted land to other nobles in exchange for military services - protection and loyalty
republic
feudalism
imperialism
Neo- Confucianism
10. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shinto
Truman doctrine
artifacts
perestroika
11. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
vietnamization
theocracy
illuminated manuscript
senate
12. 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
predestination
seppuku
Lend- Lease Act
time of troubles
13. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
burgher
kibbutzim
major domo
covenant
14. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
triangular trade
Magyars
suffrage
15. 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
bourgeoisie
four noble truths
collective farming
hominid
16. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
vassal
creole
geocentric theory
diaspora
17. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
Royal Road
stem cell research
usury
Hagia Sophia
18. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
marshall plan
nirvana
Swahili
Holocaust
19. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
satrap
gulf of tonkin resolution
duma
benefice
20. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
estates-general
capital
tree-ring dating
fresco
21. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
militarism
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
domino theory
sati
22. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
manga carta
shia
mestizo
urdu
23. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
mau mau
stem cell research
Cyrillic alphabet
Warsaw pact
24. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
surrealism
pasteurization
indulgence
25. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
Warsaw pact
Balfour Declaration
tyrant
26. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
chivalry
proletariat
shinto
imperialism
27. The Muslim name for God
Allah
daimyo
civil service system
Boers
28. An object shaped by humans
middle passage
iconoclastic controversy
nation-stae
artifact
29. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
dowry death
social Darwinism
Manchaeism
island-hopping
30. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
thermoluminescnce dating
Ka'aba
latifundia
griot
31. Large estate in ancient Rome
latifundia
age grade
space probe
bourgeoisie
32. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
radical
totalitarian state
stoicism
daimyo
33. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
chinampa
internal migration
missi dominici
shariah
34. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
hajj
economic imperialism
city-state
propaganda
35. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
perestroika
major domo
society of Jesus
satrap
36. 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
fourteen points
treaty of Versailles
age grade
external migration
37. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
entrepreneurship
Mongol Peace
Kellogg-Briand Pact
four tigers
38. Member of elite class in ancient rome
patrician
kibbutzim
yin and yang
usury
39. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
devshirme
indulgence
serf
hieroglyphics
40. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
nicene creed
forbidden city
domino theory
people of the book
41. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
militarism
vassal
domestic system
radiocarbon dating
42. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
push-pull factors
Magyars
monotheism
harem
43. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
one-child policy
appeasement
conservative
Sikhs
44. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
world trade center
kibbutzim
shariah
Royal Road
45. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
archeology
protectorate
militarism
shi
46. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
mensheviks
Dar al- Islam
pasteurization
bushido
47. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
middle passage
repartamiento
quipu
Zionism
48. 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
theory of evolution
shinto
kamikaze
ziggurat
49. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
capitalism
tree-ring dating
ayatollah
soviet
50. A government of three rulers
foraging
triumvirate
radiocarbon dating
colony