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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A greak city-state
polis
seppuku
civil disobedience
polygamy
2. A grant of land in medieval Europe
dharma
divine right of kings
fief
Kellogg-Briand Pact
3. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
league of nations
nirvana
great lap forward
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
4. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
archaeology
theory of relativity
laissez-faire
millet
5. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
Holocaust
geneva conference
humanism
containment
6. A warrior for islam
rotten borough
ghazi
parallel descent
luftwaffe
7. A government of three rulers
enclosure movement
radical
triumvirate
fresco
8. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
containment
helsinki accords
commercial revolution
detente
9. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
hajj
space shuttle
city-state
patrician
10. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
quipu
Magyars
radiocarbon dating
Royal Road
11. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
mercantilism
umma
burqa
12. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
third reich
domino theory
world health organization
new economic policy
13. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
kibbutzim
duma
city-state
kamikaze
14. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
ethnic cleansing
European Union
bushido
collective farming
15. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
divine right of kings
Dar al- Islam
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
social contract
16. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
monotheism
liberal
Reconquest
Atlantic Charter
17. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
Taliban
glasnost
Tarah
polygamy
18. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
commune
guest workers
Renaissance
burgher
19. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
icon
genocide
repartamiento
strategic defense initiative
20. Muslim social and ethical law
Neolithic Revolution
shariah
repartamiento
Sikhs
21. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
bushido
specialization of labor
comedy
22. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
mau mau
balance of power
epicureanism
oracle bone
23. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
global village
communism
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
democratization
24. 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
diocese
luftwaffe
ethnic cleansing
checks and balances
25. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
shi
genocide
consul
suffrage
26. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
appeasement
Ka'aba
realpolitik
surrealism
27. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
apostle
perestroika
divine right of kings
Tarah
28. A Persian king
nongovernmental organization
Sepoys
shah
tragedy
29. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
Tarah
coalition
laissez-faire
30. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
multinational corporation
burgess
kinship group
republic
31. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
illuminated manuscript
McDonaldization
society of Jesus
pasteurization
32. An object shaped by humans
artifact
pasteurization
bushido
Yalta Conference
33. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
totalitarian state
Bell Act
astrolabe
legitimacy
34. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
Bolsheviks
psychoanalysis
harem
feudalism
35. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
dharma
world trade organization
socialism
dictator
36. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
gospel
human cloning
sati
archeology
37. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
social contract
indulgence
Neo- Confucianism
Homo sapiens
38. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
caste
triumvirate
social contract
stele
39. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
patriarchal
shariah
daimyo
animism
40. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
time of troubles
fascism
cynicism
social Darwinism
41. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
parliament
duma
major domo
bourgeoisie
42. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
DNA dating
Sepoys
chivalry
Catholic reformation
43. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
satrap
vietnamization
oracle bone
animism
44. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
suffrage
Dadaism
Balfour Declaration
perestroika
45. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
mameduke
Lend- Lease Act
griot
absolute monarch
46. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
coalition
tree-ring dating
existentialism
domestic system
47. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
iconoclastic controversy
separation of powers
cubism
patriarch
48. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
aristocracy
foraging
capital
quinine
49. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
nongovernmental organization
factors of production
animism
containment
50. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
stele
yin and yang
Anabaptists
chlorofluorocarbons