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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
burgess
Cultural Revolution
separation of powers
jainissary
2. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
armistice
mystery religion
veto
sunni
3. Russian emperor
neolithic age
czar (tsar)
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
laissez-faire
4. The technology associated with the application of robots
diocese
robotics
sunni
African National Congress
5. A German emperor
soviet
collective farming
kaiser
mobilization
6. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
new economic policy
usury
chlorofluorocarbons
millet
7. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
veto
Magyars
kaiser
philosopher
8. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
tribune
propaganda
domino theory
desalinization
9. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
urdu
u-boats
operation overlord
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
10. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
illuminated manuscript
tyrant
helsinki accords
monsoon
11. One who disagrees; a dissenter
dissident
one-child policy
Tamils
militarism
12. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
new economic policy
trench warfare
missi dominici
nongovernmental organization
13. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
quinine
apartheid
burgher
helot
14. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
patriarchal
totalitarian state
space probe
tragedy
15. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
mandate
Dadaism
enlightenment
triangular trade
16. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
radical
estates-general
Dadaism
commercial revolution
17. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
feudalism
peace crops
loess
rotten borough
18. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
cynicism
utilitarian
abolition
burqa
19. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
Sikhs
four tigers
island-hopping
intifada
20. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
thermoluminescnce dating
one-child policy
existentialism
Royal Road
21. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
aristocracy
mensheviks
council of Trent
chivalry
22. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
thermoluminescent dating
enclosure movement
gospel
space station
23. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
patriarchal
separation of powers
archeology
vietnamization
24. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
operation sea lion
Cyrillic alphabet
five-year plans
major domo
25. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Balfour Declaration
Palestine liberation organization
Reconquest
Catholic reformation
26. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
rotten borough
sunni
theocracy
paleolithic age
27. In feudal Europe - a peasant bound to the lord's land
indulgence
ghetto
middle passage
serf
28. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
space shuttle
satrap
hieroglyphics
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
29. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
fresco
manga carta
kibbutzim
absolute monarch
30. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
civil service system
serf
caravel
burgess
31. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
radical
glyph
realpolitik
realism
32. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
hominid
paleolithic age
dharma
legitimacy
33. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
sphere of influence
Allah
glasnost
proletariat
34. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
parliament
Homo sapiens
radiocarbon dating
democratization
35. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
mobilization
golden mean
consumerism
monsoon
36. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
manor
cynicism
creole
marshall plan
37. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
feminist
existentialism
vietnamization
parliament
38. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
theory of evolution
thermoluminescent dating
caravanserials
Renaissance
39. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
DNA dating
stateless society
hellenistic culture
marshall plan
40. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
scorched- earth policy
propaganda
sati
mobilization
41. Large estate in ancient Rome
Columbian exchange
legitimacy
apprenticeship
latifundia
42. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
nicene creed
jainissary
lateen sail
council of Trent
43. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
Utopian socialist
dynasty
apostle
British Commonwealth
44. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
Zionism
radiocarbon dating
manga carta
Truman doctrine
45. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
neolithic age
dharma
pogram
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
46. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
cubism
Atlantic Charter
forbidden city
Tamils
47. The german air force
luftwaffe
Palestine liberation organization
reactionary
loess
48. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
Zionism
daimyo
senate
eightfold path
49. 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
neolithic age
realpolitik
theory of relativity
totalitarian state
50. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
romanticism
suffrage
space station
island-hopping