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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
reparation
archeology
separation of powers
blitzkrieg
2. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
shinto
Bosporus Strait
brinkmanship
polygamy
3. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
treaty of tordesillas
collective farming
senate
loess
4. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Balfour Declaration
separation of powers
serf
chlorofluorocarbons
5. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
nationalism
Justinian Code
hieroglyphics
ayatollah
6. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
Bolsheviks
joint-stock company
satrap
devshirme
7. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
space station
economic imperialism
thermoluminescent dating
pariah
8. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
Boers
enlightened despot
parliament
9. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
tree-ring dating
reparation
Anabaptists
Truman doctrine
10. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
dynasty
marshall plan
monotheism
realpolitik
11. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
republic
suffrage
chlorofluorocarbons
communism
12. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
extraterritorial rights
urdu
justification by faith
multinational corporation
13. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
messiah
iconoclastic controversy
diocese
archeology
14. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
treaty of tordesillas
geneva conference
millet
hominid
15. The Hebrew name for God
Yahweh
capital
trench warfare
Palestine liberation organization
16. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
world trade center
oracle bone
constitutional monarchy
Inquisition
17. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
icon
factors of production
Warsaw pact
tragedy
18. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
operation Barbarossa
soviet
satrap
silk roads
19. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
Afrikaner
socialism
stele
hellenistic culture
20. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
helsinki accords
polis
space station
mestizo
21. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
collective farming
foraging
truncated pyramid
shinto
22. A sole ruler with absolute power
icon
dictator
estate
karma
23. A 26 mile race
four modernizations
Anabaptists
marathon
umma
24. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
British Commonwealth
enlightened despot
dissident
hijra
25. 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
caste
quipu
third reich
satellite nation
26. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
realpolitik
stoicism
forbidden city
edict of Nantes
27. One who pursues the meaning of truth
philosopher
Balkans
daimyo
treaty of tordesillas
28. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
operation sea lion
theocracy
mandate
nation-stae
29. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
samurai
nirvana
tree-ring dating
Tarah
30. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
Bell Act
dowry death
Nuremberg trials
republic
31. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
five-year plans
Lend- Lease Act
Mongol Peace
edict of Nantes
32. 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
great lap forward
junkers
nonalignment
u-boats
33. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
nonalignment
manor
apprenticeship
Bell Act
34. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
mandate
Balfour Declaration
nicene creed
quipu
35. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
umma
republic
Utopian socialist
hominid
36. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
civil rights movement
Neolithic Revolution
Protestant Reformation
psychoanalysis
37. Large collective farm
monotheism
ethnic cleansing
cuneiform
commune
38. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
concession
mameduke
Swahili
homeland
39. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
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40. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
monotheism
kibbutzim
Bolsheviks
one-child policy
41. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
factors of production
space shuttle
new deal
Afrikaner
42. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
diaspora
Nuremberg trials
Allah
Utopian socialist
43. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
aristocracy
manor
hieroglyphics
sunni
44. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
laissez-faire
socialism
mercantilism
stem cell research
45. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
monsoon
age grade
romanticism
enlightenment
46. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
lateen sail
Justinian Code
operation overlord
thermoluminescent dating
47. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
checks and balances
neolithic age
archaeology
empire
48. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
patriarch
Renaissance
Tarah
separation of powers
49. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
Huns
justification by faith
umma
Shiva
50. 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
Deism
hellenistic culture
theory of evolution
Cultural Revolution