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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 blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
millet
zen Buddhism
push-pull factors
feudalism
2. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
Dar al- Islam
third reich
civilization
sati
3. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
containment
Yalta Conference
new deal
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
4. The study of humans as a species
repartamiento
nirvana
anthropology
robotics
5. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
empire
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
satrap
Zionism
6. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
commercial revolution
diocese
communism
stupa
7. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
helsinki accords
realpolitik
shogun
four noble truths
8. 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
people of the book
latifundia
treaty of Versailles
four noble truths
9. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
foraging
Shiva
gospel
quinine
10. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
island-hopping
stream of consciousness
burqa
domino theory
11. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
European Union
conservative
Bell Act
12. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
DNA dating
third reich
Allah
kowtow
13. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
marshall plan
social contract
civilization
functionalism
14. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
lateen sail
tragedy
silk roads
triple alliance
15. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
kinship group
laissez-faire
steppe
civilization
16. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
DNA dating
consul
loess
caste
17. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
domestic system
specialization of labor
middle passage
dynasty
18. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
burqa
sati
Afrikaner
czar (tsar)
19. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
geocentric theory
predestination
Shiva
epicureanism
20. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
burgher
dissident
Sikhs
utilitarian
21. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
burgher
intifada
third reich
missi dominici
22. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
mercantilism
code of Hammurabi
world trade organization
Huguenots
23. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
Dar al- Islam
loess
perestroika
Manhattan project
24. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
world health organization
seppuku
Swahili
surrealism
25. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
pastoral nomadism
four noble truths
intifada
oracle bone
26. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
marathon
homeland
anthropology
cubism
27. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
republic
pariah
archaeology
internal migration
28. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
balance of power
peace crops
parallel descent
third world
29. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
covenant
Utopian socialist
poliburo
great lap forward
30. French Protestants
Huguenots
Renaissance
nation-stae
eightfold path
31. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
kinship group
mameduke
marshall plan
appeasement
32. Involves obtaining samples of the genetic material of DNA from living donors and comparing it with the DNA from other persons or from animals computers and then are used to determine the rate of change in the DNA
DNA dating
mandate of heaven
golden mean
animism
33. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
cuneiform
four noble truths
world trade center
shah
34. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
millet
triangular trade
operation overlord
neolithic age
35. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
collective bargaining
truncated pyramid
parallel descent
helsinki accords
36. 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
command economy
forbidden city
quipu
Bell Act
37. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
council of Trent
Warsaw pact
Tarah
usury
38. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
epicureanism
mau mau
latifundia
realpolitik
39. A 1945 conference help at post damn - Germany in which Truman and Churchill met with Stalin to attempt to persuade him to abandon his policy of domination of the soviet satellite nations
Warsaw pact
Holocaust
postdam conference
blitzkrieg
40. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
geneva conference
caravanserials
golden mean
genocide
41. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
tyrant
totalitarian state
island-hopping
existentialism
42. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
strategic defense initiative
Royal Road
Renaissance
dictator
43. 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
intifada
stem cell research
apprenticeship
lateen sail
44. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
domino theory
stele
impressionism
communism
45. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
artifacts
Kellogg-Briand Pact
totalitarian state
Deism
46. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
Australopithecus
guomindang
external migration
Bolsheviks
47. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
strategic defense initiative
aristocracy
mercantilism
scorched- earth policy
48. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
duma
world trade center
external migration
totalitarian state
49. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
daimyo
Deism
eightfold path
bushido
50. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
terra cotta
sunni
entrepreneurship
Royal Road