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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
world health organization
apartheid
trench warfare
philosopher
2. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
poliburo
psychoanalysis
satrap
mandate
3. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
Yom Kippur
jazz
world trade organization
kowtow
4. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
Nuremberg trials
imperialism
hieroglyphics
nicene creed
5. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
third reich
third world
predestination
Manchaeism
6. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
theory of evolution
foraging
jazz
Warsaw pact
7. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
pariah
dynasty
new economic policy
papal states
8. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
social contract
Anabaptists
Dadaism
realpolitik
9. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Kellogg-Briand Pact
macadam road
tribune
great lap forward
10. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
poliburo
quinine
four tigers
militarism
11. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
utilitarian
ethnic cleansing
domestic system
12. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
strategic defense initiative
Tamils
Truman doctrine
qanat
13. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Huns
quinine
tree-ring dating
geocentric theory
14. Hunting and gathering
foraging
Taliban
space shuttle
Tarah
15. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
Cyrillic alphabet
Bosporus Strait
manga carta
consumerism
16. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
capitalism
social Darwinism
detente
yin and yang
17. German submarines
totalitarian state
missi dominici
soviet
u-boats
18. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
apartheid
euro
Yalta Conference
truncated pyramid
19. 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
great lap forward
theory of relativity
Taliban
missi dominici
20. A greak city-state
polis
gulf of tonkin resolution
romanticism
ghetto
21. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
commercial revolution
trench warfare
enlightened despot
totalitarian state
22. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
purdah
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
push-pull factors
economic imperialism
23. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
dictator
ziggurat
mau mau
vassal
24. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
benefice
joint-stock company
specialization of labor
tribune
25. According to Darwin;s theory of evolution - process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest
quinine
natural selection
u-boats
burgher
26. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
push-pull factors
major domo
chivalry
tribune
27. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
Swahili
tree-ring dating
chivalry
radiocarbon dating
28. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
separation of powers
senate
council of Trent
burqa
29. Studying fossil remains
shariah
final solution
paleontologists
major domo
30. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
strategic defense initiative
Holocaust
stateless society
world trade organization
31. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
archeology
Holocaust
social contract
four tigers
32. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
surrealism
seppuku
republic
DNA dating
33. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
urdu
Allah
hajj
caravel
34. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
realism
appeasement
internal migration
nirvana
35. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
macadam road
push-pull factors
functionalism
neolithic age
36. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
legitimacy
nirvana
humanism
fascism
37. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
reactionary
ghetto
mandate of heaven
kowtow
38. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
Taliban
legitimacy
thermoluminescent dating
hajj
39. A Persian king
trench warfare
shah
middle passage
utilitarian
40. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
dharma
Palestine liberation organization
mystery religion
archaeology
41. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
capital
mensheviks
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
radiocarbon dating
42. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
urdu
ghetto
apostle
civil disobedience
43. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
papal states
Afrikaner
Hagia Sophia
world trade organization
44. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
theocracy
dissident
Taliban
qanat
45. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
consul
pastoral nomadism
Homo sapiens
desalinization
46. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
treaty of Versailles
polis
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
gulf of tonkin resolution
47. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
radiocarbon dating
civil disobedience
ghetto
four modernizations
48. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
emir
four tigers
detente
Mongol Peace
49. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
senate
terra cotta
colony
burgher
50. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
marathon
Dar al- Islam
helot
Brahmin