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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
griot
edict of Nantes
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Shiva
2. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
appeasement
operation Barbarossa
serf
people of the book
3. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
realism
legion
capitalism
code of Hammurabi
4. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
internal migration
social Darwinism
bushi
radiocarbon dating
5. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
mameduke
eightfold path
Balfour Declaration
enclosure movement
6. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
stoicism
hijra
command economy
czar (tsar)
7. A national legislature assembly
parliament
apostle
Manhattan project
ziggurat
8. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
ziggurat
steppe
treaty of tordesillas
animism
9. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
hubris
internal migration
liberal
functionalism
10. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
economic imperialism
astrolabe
Holocaust
11. An advocate of gradual political change
civil service system
patrician
postdam conference
conservative
12. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
daimyo
existentialism
operation Barbarossa
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
13. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
chinampa
neolithic age
democratization
icon
14. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
tree-ring dating
guest workers
cuneiform
ghetto
15. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
jazz
specialization of labor
league of nations
veto
16. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
green revolution
Allah
nationalism
devshirme
17. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
papal states
kowtow
robotics
space shuttle
18. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
glyph
geneva conference
commune
missi dominici
19. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
epicureanism
reparation
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
shah
20. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
legion
time of troubles
urdu
mau mau
21. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
archaeology
colony
millet
gospel
22. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
four modernizations
pastoral nomadism
Bolsheviks
one-child policy
23. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
kamikaze
paleontologists
stupa
24. A Latin American military dictator
caudillo
mensheviks
apprenticeship
absolute monarch
25. The organized elimination of an entire population group
four tigers
Taliban
manga carta
genocide
26. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
enlightened despot
space station
bourgeoisie
27. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
Lend- Lease Act
serf
kinship group
third reich
28. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
nonalignment
psychoanalysis
chivalry
dissident
29. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
divine right of kings
operation Barbarossa
proletariat
macadam road
30. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
vietnamization
Bolsheviks
legitimacy
apartheid
31. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
perestroika
romanticism
totalitarian state
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
32. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
socialism
guomindang
urdu
truncated pyramid
33. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
economic imperialism
empire
eightfold path
trench warfare
34. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
Palestine liberation organization
oracle bone
creole
trench warfare
35. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
absolute monarch
Anabaptists
Balfour Declaration
four noble truths
36. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
people of the book
mandate of heaven
veto
philosopher
37. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
fascism
Protestant Reformation
Australopithecus
new deal
38. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
ghetto
Atlantic Charter
constitutional monarchy
kibbutzim
39. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
ghetto
Neolithic Revolution
Reconquest
world trade organization
40. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
Deism
junkers
Neolithic Revolution
economic imperialism
41. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
Swahili
pariah
Holocaust
latifundia
42. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
laissez-faire
mobilization
mercantilism
British Commonwealth
43. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
jazz
Swahili
push-pull factors
existentialism
44. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
animism
propaganda
messiah
sunni
45. A sole ruler with absolute power
multinational corporation
shia
consul
dictator
46. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
collective farming
tragedy
third world
colony
47. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
chivalry
Manchaeism
perestroika
dowry death
48. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
peace crops
treaty of tordesillas
qanat
checks and balances
49. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
collective farming
league of nations
thermoluminescnce dating
world trade center
50. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
society of Jesus
Neo- Confucianism
realpolitik
Palestine liberation organization