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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
vassal
commercial revolution
socialism
desalinization
2. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
stoicism
containment
third reich
mobilization
3. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
triple entente
Swahili
dissident
sati
4. An object shaped by humans
postdam conference
mandate of heaven
artifact
terra cotta
5. The german air force
luftwaffe
Tarah
qanat
city-state
6. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
marshall plan
sakk
push-pull factors
shinto
7. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
Australopithecus
third world
major domo
shogun
8. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
seppuku
sunni
command economy
parliament
9. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
jainissary
collective bargaining
helot
separation of powers
10. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
encomienda
ethnic cleansing
constitutional monarchy
time of troubles
11. The organized elimination of an entire population group
feminist
bourgeoisie
genocide
containment
12. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
psychoanalysis
patriarchal
philosopher
papal states
13. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
people of the book
estate
dynasty
Anabaptists
14. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
absolute monarch
missi dominici
diocese
hajj
15. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
stream of consciousness
homeland
Hagia Sophia
vietnamization
16. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
existentialism
marshall plan
guest workers
treaty of tordesillas
17. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
city-state
operation sea lion
terra cotta
theocracy
18. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
chinampa
internal migration
cubism
mau mau
19. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
major domo
suffrage
pastoral nomadism
bushido
20. The right to vote
missi dominici
pariah
jazz
suffrage
21. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
enlightenment
age grade
papal states
astrolabe
22. 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
city-state
McDonaldization
hijra
Cultural Revolution
23. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
balance of power
marathon
world trade center
Brahmin
24. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
African National Congress
Manhattan project
guomindang
commune
25. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
shia
world trade organization
four tigers
truncated pyramid
26. A government of three rulers
artifact
Justinian Code
triumvirate
stupa
27. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
lateen sail
robotics
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
balance of power
28. 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
shah
commercial revolution
social Darwinism
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
29. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
triumvirate
proletariat
reactionary
zen Buddhism
30. An advocate of gradual political change
conservative
gospel
diocese
scientific revolution
31. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
millet
Bolsheviks
justification by faith
griot
32. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
veto
blitzkrieg
ghazi
plebeian
33. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
artifacts
liberal
manor
Reconquest
34. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
burgess
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
detente
world trade center
35. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
impressionism
reactionary
shia
karma
36. Studying fossil remains
peace crops
illuminated manuscript
paleontologists
Manchaeism
37. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
desalinization
Huns
fourteen points
epicureanism
38. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
functionalism
Warsaw pact
postdam conference
containment
39. An antimalarial drug
quinine
Warsaw pact
Boers
thermoluminescent dating
40. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
humanism
brinkmanship
terra cotta
surrealism
41. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
Protestant Reformation
commune
kibbutzim
devshirme
42. 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
estate
estates-general
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
quipu
43. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
triangular trade
radiocarbon dating
truncated pyramid
collective bargaining
44. A sole ruler with absolute power
anthropology
soviet
dictator
psychoanalysis
45. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
time of troubles
estate
Neo- Confucianism
third world
46. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
kaiser
devshirme
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
aristocracy
47. The Hebrew name for God
conservative
Yahweh
moderate
daimyo
48. One who pursues the meaning of truth
tyrant
kamikaze
diocese
philosopher
49. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Royal Road
Boers
mensheviks
McDonaldization
50. Objects shaped by humans
four modernizations
mameduke
artifacts
Utopian socialist