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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
truncated pyramid
enclosure movement
conservative
rotten borough
2. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
Dadaism
new deal
space station
capital
3. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
new deal
constitutional monarchy
shi
sakk
4. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
Warsaw pact
impressionism
harem
absolute monarch
5. Describes a male-dominated society
DNA dating
Columbian exchange
soviet
patriarchal
6. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
mystery religion
abolition
feudalism
harem
7. Objects shaped by humans
samurai
British Commonwealth
Palestine liberation organization
artifacts
8. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
theocracy
Manchaeism
protectorate
Mongol Peace
9. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
Holocaust
truncated pyramid
socialism
caravanserials
10. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
civilization
stele
ziggurat
suffrage
11. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
karma
code of Hammurabi
veto
Royal Road
12. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
stele
Shiva
manga carta
internal migration
13. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
marathon
proletariat
middle passage
kinship group
14. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
monotheism
reparation
domestic system
surrealism
15. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
caste
fresco
Columbian exchange
ziggurat
16. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
millet
middle passage
civilization
stream of consciousness
17. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
desalinization
parliament
scientific revolution
bourgeoisie
18. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
Yom Kippur
lebnsraum
tyrant
justification by faith
19. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
Dar al- Islam
Tamils
kowtow
collective bargaining
20. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
guild
creole
separation of powers
Nuremberg trials
21. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
diocese
domino theory
helot
genocide
22. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
yin and yang
Lend- Lease Act
polytheism
shi
23. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
Lend- Lease Act
iconoclastic controversy
tribune
detente
24. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
world trade center
concession
artifacts
stateless society
25. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
ghazi
commercial agriculture
bourgeoisie
socialism
26. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
treaty of Versailles
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
thermoluminescnce dating
chinampa
27. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
nicene creed
burgess
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
mameduke
28. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
age grade
Warsaw pact
Royal Road
consul
29. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
Sikhs
pastoral nomadism
push-pull factors
stupa
30. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
comedy
diaspora
world trade center
vietnamization
31. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
vietnamization
mensheviks
eightfold path
containment
32. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
Bolsheviks
empire
euro
stem cell research
33. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
shia
Deism
Tarah
34. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
geocentric theory
entrepreneurship
cynicism
neolithic age
35. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
Magyars
covenant
armistice
cuneiform
36. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
ayatollah
duma
burqa
kibbutzim
37. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
Inquisition
luftwaffe
vassal
strategic defense initiative
38. 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
mestizo
theory of relativity
scorched- earth policy
pogram
39. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
middle passage
guest workers
Balkans
socialism
40. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
diaspora
loess
estates-general
scorched- earth policy
41. One who pursues the meaning of truth
liberal
philosopher
surrealism
Hagia Sophia
42. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
Bolsheviks
Zionism
Magyars
samurai
43. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
one-child policy
jainissary
quinine
mobilization
44. The organized elimination of an entire population group
oracle bone
feudalism
triangular trade
genocide
45. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
geocentric theory
gulf of tonkin resolution
shinto
mandate
46. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
shi
helot
democratization
separation of powers
47. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
world health organization
Ka'aba
fascism
astrolabe
48. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
Magyars
propaganda
pariah
treaty of Versailles
49. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
postdam conference
space shuttle
Manhattan project
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
50. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
Sikhs
bourgeoisie
mandate
laissez-faire