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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. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
realism
stele
thermoluminescnce dating
junkers
2. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
kaiser
terra cotta
nation-stae
tyrant
3. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
trench warfare
fascism
Holocaust
Boers
4. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
usury
creole
DNA dating
collective bargaining
5. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
Sikhs
commercial revolution
island-hopping
edict of Nantes
6. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
loess
people of the book
icon
epicureanism
7. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shinto
shia
space station
middle passage
8. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
treaty of tordesillas
zen Buddhism
Manhattan project
league of nations
9. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
Tamils
kamikaze
shogun
enlightened despot
10. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
world trade center
ghetto
communism
ziggurat
11. 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
Lend- Lease Act
Deism
surrealism
truncated pyramid
12. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
abolition
purdah
humanism
diocese
13. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
postdam conference
stoicism
creole
zen Buddhism
14. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
ghazi
shia
Nuremberg trials
Brahmin
15. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
Magyars
seppuku
epicureanism
nirvana
16. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
liberal
Bell Act
papal states
tragedy
17. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
existentialism
vassal
gospel
shah
18. 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
animism
guest workers
world trade center
Bell Act
19. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
guild
satellite nation
cubism
ghetto
20. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
emir
bushi
mandate of heaven
21. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
veto
indulgence
people of the book
existentialism
22. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
luftwaffe
stateless society
zen Buddhism
radiocarbon dating
23. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
poliburo
Brahmin
Balkans
gulf of tonkin resolution
24. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
Sepoys
proletariat
stream of consciousness
luftwaffe
25. Large estate in ancient Rome
impressionism
yin and yang
latifundia
neolithic age
26. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
time of troubles
caravanserials
third world
shariah
27. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
tragedy
diocese
social Darwinism
cubism
28. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
pasteurization
final solution
creole
Utopian socialist
29. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
messiah
Balfour Declaration
animism
four modernizations
30. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
Brahmin
kowtow
nation-stae
burgher
31. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
urdu
hellenistic culture
messiah
ethnic cleansing
32. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
space probe
dharma
shia
peace crops
33. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
tree-ring dating
senate
fresco
genocide
34. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
commune
intifada
caravanserials
four modernizations
35. A German emperor
kaiser
triumvirate
Afrikaner
stream of consciousness
36. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
Bosporus Strait
nationalism
Afrikaner
detente
37. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
Utopian socialist
detente
containment
functionalism
38. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
four tigers
repartamiento
dissident
African National Congress
39. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
Brahmin
mestizo
indulgence
stupa
40. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
protectorate
helot
blitzkrieg
one-child policy
41. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
Balkans
artifact
lateen sail
five-year plans
42. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
papal states
homeland
world trade organization
divine right of kings
43. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
justification by faith
external migration
scientific revolution
44. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
kamikaze
radiocarbon dating
parallel descent
bushi
45. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
kamikaze
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
theory of relativity
psychoanalysis
46. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
triumvirate
concession
Magyars
purdah
47. 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
quipu
external migration
enlightenment
steppe
48. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
millet
polis
proletariat
vietnamization
49. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
Royal Road
mensheviks
perestroika
monotheism
50. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
reparation
mystery religion
Huguenots
theocracy