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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
internal migration
ayatollah
social contract
apartheid
2. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
Taliban
guest workers
DNA dating
trench warfare
3. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
Yahweh
nation-stae
Holocaust
oracle bone
4. A political system in which a monarch or noble granted land to other nobles in exchange for military services - protection and loyalty
rotten borough
city-state
four modernizations
feudalism
5. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
multinational corporation
space shuttle
Catholic reformation
socialism
6. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
iconoclastic controversy
seppuku
archeology
bushi
7. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
dynasty
quipu
multinational corporation
commercial agriculture
8. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
benefice
nationalism
domestic system
helot
9. A ceasefire agreement
armistice
jazz
latifundia
helsinki accords
10. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
stupa
space probe
postdam conference
hominid
11. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
cubism
sunni
manga carta
messiah
12. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shinto
nationalism
polygamy
satrap
13. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
psychoanalysis
radiocarbon dating
lebnsraum
satellite nation
14. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
triumvirate
collective farming
papal states
15. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
Zionism
bushi
estate
Balfour Declaration
16. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
kibbutzim
satellite nation
Magyars
nicene creed
17. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
hominid
guomindang
suffrage
18. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
aristocracy
mensheviks
shariah
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
19. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Catholic reformation
mystery religion
parliament
terra cotta
20. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
intifada
patrician
nation-stae
third world
21. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
helsinki accords
pogram
diaspora
glyph
22. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
archeology
helot
manga carta
23. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
manga carta
third reich
radiocarbon dating
griot
24. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
marathon
caste
quipu
25. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
imperialism
conservative
sati
anthropology
26. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
edict of Nantes
triumvirate
bushido
comedy
27. The technology associated with the application of robots
robotics
urdu
latifundia
Huguenots
28. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
legitimacy
parallel descent
sphere of influence
treaty of tordesillas
29. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
intifada
Anabaptists
enlightened despot
junkers
30. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
shah
operation sea lion
triangular trade
loess
31. The right of a dynasty to rule
capitalism
legitimacy
shogun
radiocarbon dating
32. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
proletariat
Sepoys
nongovernmental organization
consumerism
33. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
shinto
commercial agriculture
bushido
radiocarbon dating
34. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
treaty of tordesillas
major domo
green revolution
35. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
containment
third reich
Cyrillic alphabet
propaganda
36. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
operation Barbarossa
green revolution
McDonaldization
guest workers
37. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
surrealism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
mandate of heaven
burgher
38. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
capital
five pillars
artifacts
stele
39. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
dowry death
kamikaze
papal states
thermoluminescent dating
40. Russian Parliament
jazz
duma
enlightened despot
artifact
41. A 26 mile race
perestroika
Justinian Code
czar (tsar)
marathon
42. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
Homo sapiens
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
justification by faith
griot
43. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
Nuremberg trials
Truman doctrine
fresco
mercantilism
44. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
league of nations
mobilization
thermoluminescnce dating
manor
45. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
burgess
Zionism
tyrant
Bolsheviks
46. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
major domo
society of Jesus
third reich
internal migration
47. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
triumvirate
shariah
forbidden city
tragedy
48. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
triangular trade
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
radical
serf
49. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
hijra
civil service system
polygamy
diocese
50. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
nonalignment
McDonaldization
extraterritorial rights
jainissary