SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
SAT Subject Test: World History
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
sat
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
geneva conference
macadam road
joint-stock company
kowtow
2. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
realism
Manchaeism
domino theory
papal states
3. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
nonalignment
realpolitik
league of nations
socialism
4. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
Ka'aba
guomindang
Manhattan project
5. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
hominid
polytheism
usury
6. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
theory of relativity
consumerism
radiocarbon dating
strategic defense initiative
7. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
existentialism
Neo- Confucianism
nonalignment
African National Congress
8. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
comedy
jazz
legitimacy
stream of consciousness
9. One who disagrees; a dissenter
fresco
Sikhs
specialization of labor
dissident
10. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
major domo
shia
Neo- Confucianism
Hagia Sophia
11. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
laissez-faire
Catholic reformation
dynasty
ziggurat
12. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
Anabaptists
Kellogg-Briand Pact
push-pull factors
scientific revolution
13. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
stem cell research
patriarch
scorched- earth policy
nation-stae
14. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
Bolsheviks
encomienda
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
dynasty
15. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
czar (tsar)
Atlantic Charter
capitalism
harem
16. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
social contract
commercial revolution
geocentric theory
Ka'aba
17. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
third reich
code of Hammurabi
animism
manor
18. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
Inquisition
quinine
gospel
great lap forward
19. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
patrician
stupa
robotics
island-hopping
20. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
devshirme
joint-stock company
mandate
dharma
21. Large collective farm
commune
sphere of influence
dissident
sunni
22. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
guest workers
divine right of kings
triple alliance
Sepoys
23. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
paleontologists
scorched- earth policy
mau mau
concession
24. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
people of the book
dynasty
time of troubles
Australopithecus
25. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
iconoclastic controversy
theory of relativity
manor
legion
26. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
triple entente
Protestant Reformation
operation sea lion
mandate
27. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
umma
new economic policy
legitimacy
28. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
glasnost
factors of production
radiocarbon dating
bushido
29. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
factors of production
mau mau
imperialism
command economy
30. 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
loess
checks and balances
vassal
colony
31. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
triumvirate
guomindang
paleontologists
middle passage
32. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
anthropology
functionalism
thermoluminescent dating
final solution
33. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
iconoclastic controversy
operation Barbarossa
great lap forward
fourteen points
34. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
satellite nation
messiah
icon
space probe
35. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
McDonaldization
yin and yang
usury
animism
36. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
African National Congress
eightfold path
utilitarian
scorched- earth policy
37. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
lateen sail
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
trench warfare
legitimacy
38. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
pariah
brinkmanship
capital
estate
39. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
realism
colony
middle passage
Shiva
40. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
terra cotta
nation-stae
constitutional monarchy
41. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
triple alliance
social Darwinism
golden mean
dissident
42. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
Dar al- Islam
imperialism
shogun
peace crops
43. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
communism
feminist
external migration
armistice
44. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
joint-stock company
Nuremberg trials
justification by faith
manor
45. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
vassal
daimyo
macadam road
burgess
46. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
Warsaw pact
liberal
reactionary
apartheid
47. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
jazz
realpolitik
guild
caste
48. A political system in which a monarch or noble granted land to other nobles in exchange for military services - protection and loyalty
laissez-faire
monotheism
world health organization
feudalism
49. An object shaped by humans
artifact
radiocarbon dating
stele
steppe
50. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
Anabaptists
Warsaw pact
Shiva
zen Buddhism