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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
multinational corporation
domino theory
enclosure movement
triumvirate
2. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
geneva conference
stoicism
mameduke
concession
3. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
foraging
plebeian
collective farming
edict of Nantes
4. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
world trade organization
scientific revolution
green revolution
mercantilism
5. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
domestic system
glyph
papal states
Lend- Lease Act
6. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
peace crops
five pillars
cynicism
caste
7. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
poliburo
Utopian socialist
reparation
karma
8. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
five-year plans
manor
commercial agriculture
Anabaptists
9. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
creole
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
patriarchal
senate
10. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
rotten borough
bushido
stoicism
dynasty
11. Objects shaped by humans
stem cell research
league of nations
artifacts
loess
12. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
suffrage
caravel
functionalism
archeology
13. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
apartheid
code of Hammurabi
capitalism
blitzkrieg
14. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
Renaissance
people of the book
Shiva
Truman doctrine
15. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Catholic reformation
commercial revolution
hominid
apostle
16. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
one-child policy
propaganda
divine right of kings
philosopher
17. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
Bolsheviks
absolute monarch
collective farming
final solution
18. 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
Warsaw pact
enlightenment
Truman doctrine
world trade organization
19. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
civil disobedience
lateen sail
sakk
neolithic age
20. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
perestroika
Justinian Code
third world
Utopian socialist
21. A humanlike creature that walks upright
armistice
polytheism
hominid
entrepreneurship
22. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
ghetto
specialization of labor
shinto
African National Congress
23. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
Hagia Sophia
nongovernmental organization
robotics
soviet
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
major domo
new deal
ethnic cleansing
truncated pyramid
25. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
mercantilism
Tamils
multinational corporation
archaeology
26. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
vietnamization
monotheism
benefice
satrap
27. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
kaiser
golden mean
liberal
emir
28. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
mandate
caste
ziggurat
desalinization
29. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
astrolabe
harem
kaiser
papal states
30. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
pastoral nomadism
purdah
liberal
triangular trade
31. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Dar al- Islam
Catholic reformation
operation Barbarossa
four modernizations
32. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
command economy
sunni
millet
Hagia Sophia
33. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
new economic policy
Zionism
conservative
utilitarian
34. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
latifundia
new deal
thermoluminescent dating
lebnsraum
35. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
shah
space station
specialization of labor
cubism
36. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
stateless society
geneva conference
Magyars
dowry death
37. 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
sakk
nongovernmental organization
quipu
suffrage
38. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
czar (tsar)
parallel descent
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
messiah
39. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
capitalism
jazz
icon
dynasty
40. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
cubism
mercantilism
impressionism
internal migration
41. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
papal states
junkers
Australopithecus
burgess
42. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
people of the book
aristocracy
nongovernmental organization
enlightened despot
43. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Atlantic Charter
island-hopping
44. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
iconoclastic controversy
geocentric theory
cuneiform
detente
45. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
Inquisition
mensheviks
Australopithecus
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
46. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
civilization
surrealism
stoicism
Protestant Reformation
47. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
gospel
silk roads
jazz
emir
48. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
coalition
DNA dating
Deism
manga carta
49. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
society of Jesus
qanat
estates-general
joint-stock company
50. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
sakk
ethnic cleansing
senate
Shiva