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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. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
manga carta
yin and yang
perestroika
cubism
2. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
time of troubles
estates-general
capitalism
animism
3. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
truncated pyramid
lateen sail
brinkmanship
third world
4. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
major domo
Swahili
Taliban
surrealism
5. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
polygamy
papal states
stem cell research
astrolabe
6. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
forbidden city
reparation
final solution
human cloning
7. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
global village
imperialism
space station
kibbutzim
8. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
Cyrillic alphabet
desalinization
romanticism
plebeian
9. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
loess
world trade center
forbidden city
Truman doctrine
10. 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
shogun
treaty of Versailles
stupa
robotics
11. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
major domo
Australopithecus
great lap forward
green revolution
12. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
epicureanism
Utopian socialist
one-child policy
Allah
13. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
Manhattan project
iconoclastic controversy
four modernizations
Manchaeism
14. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
totalitarian state
theocracy
domino theory
tragedy
15. Large collective farm
commune
final solution
astrolabe
seppuku
16. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
romanticism
league of nations
radical
enlightened despot
17. A humanlike creature that walks upright
final solution
hominid
missi dominici
forbidden city
18. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
purdah
one-child policy
perestroika
Holocaust
19. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
chlorofluorocarbons
four noble truths
abolition
helsinki accords
20. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
time of troubles
McDonaldization
divine right of kings
radical
21. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Deism
icon
Reconquest
league of nations
22. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Swahili
Nuremberg trials
aristocracy
Afrikaner
23. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
Tamils
new deal
paleolithic age
Balkans
24. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
appeasement
mandate
one-child policy
terra cotta
25. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
enclosure movement
Inquisition
separation of powers
theory of relativity
26. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
stele
astrolabe
Sikhs
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
27. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
astrolabe
realpolitik
satrap
radiocarbon dating
28. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
chinampa
predestination
Hagia Sophia
aristocracy
29. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
thermoluminescent dating
Balkans
jainissary
cynicism
30. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
hominid
totalitarian state
enlightenment
griot
31. The symbol used as part of a writing system
feminist
glasnost
glyph
civil service system
32. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
detente
caudillo
fascism
geneva conference
33. A government of three rulers
enlightened despot
triumvirate
realpolitik
harem
34. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
fourteen points
sati
Neo- Confucianism
space shuttle
35. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
ayatollah
steppe
guomindang
Lend- Lease Act
36. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
archeology
messiah
triangular trade
thermoluminescnce dating
37. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
caravanserials
emir
manor
polytheism
38. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
artifacts
zen Buddhism
consumerism
rotten borough
39. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
umma
DNA dating
polis
apprenticeship
40. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
Dar al- Islam
collective farming
parliament
millet
41. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
cynicism
council of Trent
polis
eightfold path
42. Russian Parliament
duma
social contract
chivalry
factors of production
43. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
seppuku
DNA dating
colony
neolithic age
44. A grant of land in medieval Europe
constitutional monarchy
civil rights movement
fief
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
45. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
abolition
zen Buddhism
time of troubles
stateless society
46. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
parliament
colony
laissez-faire
moderate
47. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
mobilization
shariah
colony
collective bargaining
48. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
Bosporus Strait
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
sati
constitutional monarchy
49. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
gulf of tonkin resolution
social contract
dharma
veto
50. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
McDonaldization
benefice
civil disobedience
moderate