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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 national legislature assembly
satellite nation
parliament
quinine
Tarah
2. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
messiah
geneva conference
shia
five-year plans
3. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
economic imperialism
Homo sapiens
legion
Sikhs
4. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
harem
ghetto
purdah
fief
5. 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
pariah
Bolsheviks
operation overlord
intifada
6. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
cynicism
internal migration
Manhattan project
umma
7. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
capitalism
five-year plans
concession
patriarchal
8. Russian emperor
czar (tsar)
triple entente
trench warfare
Warsaw pact
9. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
chinampa
robotics
edict of Nantes
containment
10. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
domestic system
artifact
world trade center
Deism
11. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
sunni
African National Congress
trench warfare
Catholic reformation
12. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
junkers
triple alliance
estate
millet
13. German submarines
nongovernmental organization
u-boats
artifact
Inquisition
14. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
kaiser
existentialism
mameduke
Australopithecus
15. The belief in one god
hajj
manga carta
monotheism
proletariat
16. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
duma
third reich
Sikhs
Nuremberg trials
17. The dissemination of materials or messages to promote one's own cause or diminish the cause of an adversary
propaganda
robotics
Bosporus Strait
umma
18. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
paleolithic age
new deal
Nuremberg trials
militarism
19. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
operation overlord
geocentric theory
collective bargaining
propaganda
20. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
satrap
realism
impressionism
21. 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
Ka'aba
indulgence
peace crops
Huns
22. One who pursues the meaning of truth
philosopher
artifacts
Dadaism
veto
23. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
triple entente
marshall plan
coalition
24. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
karma
liberal
dictator
hijra
25. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
Tamils
people of the book
cubism
brinkmanship
26. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
nicene creed
diocese
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
satellite nation
27. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
time of troubles
collective farming
soviet
communism
28. A member of the middle class in medieval England
one-child policy
chlorofluorocarbons
burgess
estate
29. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
dynasty
hominid
hijra
apostle
30. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
theory of evolution
major domo
homeland
Lend- Lease Act
31. 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
benefice
quipu
lateen sail
human cloning
32. A greak city-state
polis
code of Hammurabi
bushi
armistice
33. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
commercial agriculture
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
domestic system
ayatollah
34. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
pastoral nomadism
Sepoys
pasteurization
guest workers
35. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
senate
yin and yang
space shuttle
sati
36. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
reparation
space probe
hajj
parallel descent
37. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
estates-general
scientific revolution
mensheviks
38. The concept of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu that each branch of government be granted distinct powers that served to limit those of the other branches of the government
civil rights movement
hellenistic culture
bushido
checks and balances
39. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
African National Congress
cynicism
vassal
stupa
40. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
constitutional monarchy
thermoluminescent dating
triple alliance
mameduke
41. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
mystery religion
radiocarbon dating
purdah
kaiser
42. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
zen Buddhism
operation Barbarossa
Hagia Sophia
czar (tsar)
43. The right of a dynasty to rule
legitimacy
apartheid
mandate
radiocarbon dating
44. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
Lend- Lease Act
diocese
city-state
Dar al- Islam
45. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
Swahili
major domo
Warsaw pact
treaty of Versailles
46. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
glyph
perestroika
colony
external migration
47. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
functionalism
world health organization
collective farming
constitutional monarchy
48. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
geneva conference
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
tree-ring dating
suffrage
49. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
tribune
golden mean
Magyars
feminist
50. An organization of European countries to promote free trade among its members
European Union
parallel descent
pasteurization
mameduke