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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 blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
five-year plans
zen Buddhism
treaty of Versailles
functionalism
2. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
astrolabe
eightfold path
patrician
soviet
3. A 26 mile race
DNA dating
marathon
monotheism
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
4. Marriage to more than one wife
Truman doctrine
polygamy
propaganda
helsinki accords
5. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
artifact
messiah
Manchaeism
Huguenots
6. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
pogram
patriarchal
sunni
feminist
7. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
chlorofluorocarbons
apostle
island-hopping
veto
8. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
helsinki accords
harem
papal states
four noble truths
9. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
caravanserials
psychoanalysis
strategic defense initiative
Kellogg-Briand Pact
10. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
one-child policy
caste
sphere of influence
stupa
11. The organized elimination of an entire population group
genocide
Royal Road
Shiva
foraging
12. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
hijra
caravanserials
entrepreneurship
space shuttle
13. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
predestination
shi
neolithic age
reactionary
14. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
factors of production
dissident
astrolabe
Cultural Revolution
15. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
forbidden city
mensheviks
social contract
perestroika
16. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
brinkmanship
jainissary
Bosporus Strait
duma
17. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
mestizo
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
humanism
perestroika
18. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
burgher
astrolabe
world trade organization
encomienda
19. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
robotics
Allah
caravel
pariah
20. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
ghetto
fresco
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
command economy
21. The concept of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu that each branch of government be granted distinct powers that served to limit those of the other branches of the government
Yahweh
factors of production
checks and balances
satellite nation
22. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
postdam conference
missi dominici
third world
archeology
23. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Neolithic Revolution
nicene creed
illuminated manuscript
24. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
shariah
republic
caste
space station
25. A humanlike creature that walks upright
world trade organization
Bosporus Strait
creole
hominid
26. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
estates-general
blitzkrieg
Manchaeism
Ka'aba
27. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
peace crops
golden mean
manga carta
realpolitik
28. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
mau mau
Boers
enlightened despot
seppuku
29. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
homeland
shi
balance of power
dharma
30. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
Royal Road
conservative
third world
Homo sapiens
31. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
republic
Utopian socialist
Balkans
estate
32. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
operation Barbarossa
trench warfare
factors of production
sakk
33. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
propaganda
moderate
Renaissance
pariah
34. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
fresco
manor
mau mau
ethnic cleansing
35. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
Yalta Conference
feminist
theory of relativity
ethnic cleansing
36. The Muslim community of faithful
Bell Act
manor
umma
paleontologists
37. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
fresco
concession
pogram
Tarah
38. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
lebnsraum
Ka'aba
island-hopping
nonalignment
39. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
sati
estate
proletariat
civilization
40. 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
suffrage
guomindang
Huguenots
natural selection
41. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
Huguenots
steppe
latifundia
abolition
42. Muslim social and ethical law
Deism
shariah
space shuttle
mau mau
43. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
Cyrillic alphabet
kinship group
benefice
league of nations
44. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
stupa
shah
Neo- Confucianism
reparation
45. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
tree-ring dating
messiah
Yahweh
empire
46. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
mensheviks
one-child policy
hajj
illuminated manuscript
47. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Swahili
sati
capitalism
48. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
tyrant
consumerism
mercantilism
apartheid
49. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Columbian exchange
proletariat
chinampa
50. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
chivalry
detente
Neolithic Revolution
lateen sail