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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. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
consul
Balkans
eightfold path
coalition
2. Peace plan for the post world war I world proposed by President Woodrow Wilson; its major points included the principle of self- determination and the establishment of an association of nations
sati
Truman doctrine
coalition
fourteen points
3. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
helot
jainissary
daimyo
qanat
4. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
Balkans
radiocarbon dating
archaeology
desalinization
5. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
commercial revolution
samurai
Justinian Code
capital
6. 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
kaiser
colony
realism
Cultural Revolution
7. The Hebrew name for God
jainissary
zen Buddhism
surrealism
Yahweh
8. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
Manhattan project
ghazi
covenant
shi
9. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
hellenistic culture
paleontologists
fourteen points
stupa
10. 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
macadam road
enlightenment
Balfour Declaration
reparation
11. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
stele
brinkmanship
manor
patrician
12. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
soviet
major domo
archaeology
legion
13. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
specialization of labor
Atlantic Charter
cynicism
czar (tsar)
14. An organization of European countries to promote free trade among its members
European Union
operation Barbarossa
peace crops
marathon
15. 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
dictator
Bell Act
social Darwinism
third reich
16. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
latifundia
divine right of kings
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
pariah
17. 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
militarism
peninsular
peace crops
u-boats
18. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
lebnsraum
tree-ring dating
Reconquest
treaty of tordesillas
19. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
shinto
astrolabe
Kellogg-Briand Pact
20. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
Bosporus Strait
factors of production
epicureanism
21. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
Dar al- Islam
shah
commercial agriculture
euro
22. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
theory of evolution
guest workers
Yalta Conference
23. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
macadam road
enclosure movement
kamikaze
command economy
24. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
enclosure movement
society of Jesus
Yalta Conference
functionalism
25. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
homeland
bushi
council of Trent
silk roads
26. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
shi
archaeology
global village
qanat
27. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
separation of powers
pogram
diaspora
samurai
28. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
four noble truths
dynasty
Warsaw pact
junkers
29. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
soviet
apprenticeship
Truman doctrine
Anabaptists
30. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
vietnamization
philosopher
messiah
edict of Nantes
31. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
plebeian
steppe
Utopian socialist
loess
32. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
people of the book
Utopian socialist
final solution
space shuttle
33. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
hieroglyphics
ghazi
bushido
Warsaw pact
34. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
realism
coalition
terra cotta
Truman doctrine
35. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
36. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
brinkmanship
ethnic cleansing
civil disobedience
Homo sapiens
37. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
socialism
comedy
dynasty
collective bargaining
38. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
nonalignment
human cloning
guest workers
purdah
39. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
truncated pyramid
specialization of labor
moderate
separation of powers
40. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
silk roads
Magyars
balance of power
41. 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
Protestant Reformation
impressionism
ayatollah
helsinki accords
42. 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
code of Hammurabi
apartheid
fresco
43. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
containment
geocentric theory
Inquisition
archeology
44. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
middle passage
millet
humanism
seppuku
45. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
ayatollah
collective bargaining
cubism
Neolithic Revolution
46. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
perestroika
appeasement
comedy
strategic defense initiative
47. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
lebnsraum
Anabaptists
junkers
four tigers
48. Large estate in ancient Rome
latifundia
Sepoys
fascism
nationalism
49. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
archaeology
monsoon
macadam road
suffrage
50. The technology associated with the application of robots
ayatollah
Yahweh
capitalism
robotics