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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
stream of consciousness
soviet
social Darwinism
illuminated manuscript
2. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
surrealism
encomienda
vietnamization
lateen sail
3. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
fascism
chinampa
desalinization
senate
4. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
Holocaust
legitimacy
triangular trade
appeasement
5. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
patriarch
Bosporus Strait
internal migration
middle passage
6. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
mameduke
Boers
shah
nongovernmental organization
7. Russian emperor
social contract
brinkmanship
radiocarbon dating
czar (tsar)
8. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
communism
psychoanalysis
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
9. 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
intifada
daimyo
polygamy
DNA dating
10. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Tamils
surrealism
Reconquest
concession
11. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
final solution
reactionary
caravanserials
geneva conference
12. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
intifada
triple entente
kinship group
bushido
13. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
griot
pasteurization
imperialism
shi
14. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
mandate of heaven
civil disobedience
tragedy
terra cotta
15. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
radiocarbon dating
Yom Kippur
brinkmanship
collective bargaining
16. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
stream of consciousness
neolithic age
yin and yang
code of Hammurabi
17. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
monotheism
Columbian exchange
quinine
18. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
stoicism
propaganda
factors of production
space station
19. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
Mongol Peace
cubism
caudillo
thermoluminescnce dating
20. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
bushido
aristocracy
Cyrillic alphabet
detente
21. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
island-hopping
mandate
Sikhs
Atlantic Charter
22. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
mystery religion
ziggurat
militarism
duma
23. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
helsinki accords
Tamils
illuminated manuscript
triple alliance
24. The Jewish day of atonement
coalition
Yom Kippur
hieroglyphics
Yahweh
25. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
glasnost
caste
stateless society
world trade center
26. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
hellenistic culture
Homo sapiens
vassal
Bell Act
27. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
kamikaze
third reich
Cyrillic alphabet
constitutional monarchy
28. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
golden mean
devshirme
five pillars
kibbutzim
29. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Deism
realpolitik
chivalry
theory of evolution
30. The Hebrew name for God
hajj
Yahweh
theocracy
indulgence
31. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
missi dominici
Utopian socialist
kinship group
sati
32. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
social Darwinism
missi dominici
millet
33. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
Lend- Lease Act
council of Trent
Huns
containment
34. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
repartamiento
poliburo
glyph
35. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
sphere of influence
rotten borough
operation overlord
reactionary
36. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
ziggurat
umma
operation Barbarossa
burgher
37. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
checks and balances
constitutional monarchy
silk roads
five pillars
38. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
Homo sapiens
operation sea lion
Palestine liberation organization
polytheism
39. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
ethnic cleansing
mau mau
green revolution
one-child policy
40. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
age grade
world health organization
domino theory
glasnost
41. Russian Parliament
diocese
duma
satellite nation
propaganda
42. A 1945 conference help at post damn - Germany in which Truman and Churchill met with Stalin to attempt to persuade him to abandon his policy of domination of the soviet satellite nations
colony
zen Buddhism
postdam conference
four noble truths
43. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
manor
code of Hammurabi
patriarch
perestroika
44. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
diocese
loess
Palestine liberation organization
daimyo
45. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
mau mau
pogram
impressionism
new deal
46. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
daimyo
social contract
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
dynasty
47. 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
stupa
quipu
oracle bone
pastoral nomadism
48. Member of elite class in ancient rome
mystery religion
zen Buddhism
lebnsraum
patrician
49. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
kinship group
Manchaeism
illuminated manuscript
Tarah
50. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
world health organization
peace crops
hieroglyphics
czar (tsar)