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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 follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
fourteen points
apostle
Manhattan project
specialization of labor
2. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
containment
predestination
dissident
peace crops
3. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
jazz
league of nations
artifacts
hijra
4. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
domestic system
totalitarian state
macadam road
absolute monarch
5. 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
Kellogg-Briand Pact
hubris
senate
6. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
Columbian exchange
Sepoys
harem
legion
7. Marriage to more than one wife
polygamy
new deal
joint-stock company
capitalism
8. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
hijra
missi dominici
laissez-faire
space station
9. A national legislature assembly
parliament
Australopithecus
paleolithic age
marathon
10. 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
rotten borough
Nuremberg trials
Bolsheviks
impressionism
11. A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and 18th centuries stating that human beings were basically good and could be further improved through education - and upholding reason as the key to truth
chivalry
enlightenment
triple alliance
iconoclastic controversy
12. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
terra cotta
colony
peace crops
Neolithic Revolution
13. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
diaspora
civil service system
steppe
helot
14. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
operation sea lion
burgher
neolithic age
Columbian exchange
15. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
Manchaeism
burqa
triple entente
zen Buddhism
16. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
bushido
specialization of labor
apprenticeship
creole
17. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
Neolithic Revolution
caste
utilitarian
Yahweh
18. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
mestizo
African National Congress
neolithic age
third reich
19. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
feudalism
iconoclastic controversy
philosopher
enclosure movement
20. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
code of Hammurabi
league of nations
brinkmanship
surrealism
21. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
conservative
strategic defense initiative
geocentric theory
internal migration
22. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
final solution
vietnamization
Lend- Lease Act
domino theory
23. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
paleontologists
shogun
mystery religion
scorched- earth policy
24. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
vassal
rotten borough
peninsular
purdah
25. A German emperor
quipu
island-hopping
kaiser
messiah
26. Member of elite class in ancient rome
patrician
moderate
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
aristocracy
27. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Justinian Code
Cyrillic alphabet
jazz
diaspora
28. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
enclosure movement
major domo
griot
Taliban
29. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
Bosporus Strait
command economy
mobilization
serf
30. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
capitalism
neolithic age
millet
nicene creed
31. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
commercial agriculture
foraging
command economy
romanticism
32. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
Catholic reformation
enlightened despot
edict of Nantes
griot
33. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
new deal
vietnamization
Yalta Conference
Yahweh
34. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
nation-stae
Tarah
kowtow
Palestine liberation organization
35. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
serf
capitalism
command economy
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
36. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
geocentric theory
edict of Nantes
realpolitik
Atlantic Charter
37. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
polis
existentialism
astrolabe
realpolitik
38. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
Lend- Lease Act
constitutional monarchy
coalition
chlorofluorocarbons
39. 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
monsoon
treaty of Versailles
hellenistic culture
great lap forward
40. A sole ruler with absolute power
romanticism
dictator
armistice
nirvana
41. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
island-hopping
Balfour Declaration
bushido
proletariat
42. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
covenant
blitzkrieg
nonalignment
justification by faith
43. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
realpolitik
guest workers
British Commonwealth
sakk
44. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
geneva conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
trench warfare
archeology
45. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
empire
glasnost
protectorate
detente
46. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
imperialism
commercial revolution
Columbian exchange
triple entente
47. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
stateless society
ayatollah
four tigers
kamikaze
48. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
socialism
age grade
ghetto
dictator
49. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
divine right of kings
Brahmin
Utopian socialist
50. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
loess
scorched- earth policy
civil rights movement
absolute monarch