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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. German submarines
u-boats
multinational corporation
manor
messiah
2. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
sati
DNA dating
Palestine liberation organization
forbidden city
3. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
social Darwinism
Palestine liberation organization
push-pull factors
four noble truths
4. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
kamikaze
patriarch
seppuku
consul
5. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
Huguenots
satrap
repartamiento
plebeian
6. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
realism
four noble truths
parliament
benefice
7. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
Balkans
liberal
Columbian exchange
human cloning
8. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
world trade organization
ayatollah
hellenistic culture
mobilization
9. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
four noble truths
golden mean
thermoluminescent dating
civil disobedience
10. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
operation sea lion
soviet
Bosporus Strait
diocese
11. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
strategic defense initiative
social Darwinism
four noble truths
domestic system
12. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
foraging
silk roads
domestic system
third reich
13. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
animism
neolithic age
radiocarbon dating
collective farming
14. In feudal Europe - a peasant bound to the lord's land
indulgence
age grade
society of Jesus
serf
15. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
cynicism
consul
griot
chlorofluorocarbons
16. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
loess
monotheism
external migration
kowtow
17. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
functionalism
shah
icon
protectorate
18. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
people of the book
jainissary
macadam road
19. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
reactionary
hominid
Holocaust
feudalism
20. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
repartamiento
propaganda
fresco
DNA dating
21. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
loess
samurai
Deism
silk roads
22. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
kowtow
entrepreneurship
psychoanalysis
chlorofluorocarbons
23. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
operation overlord
realism
sati
apartheid
24. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
city-state
edict of Nantes
dharma
patriarch
25. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
nirvana
genocide
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
mameduke
26. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
city-state
nationalism
oracle bone
predestination
27. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
diocese
trench warfare
intifada
forbidden city
28. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
bushi
aristocracy
emir
liberal
29. The dissemination of materials or messages to promote one's own cause or diminish the cause of an adversary
propaganda
Bell Act
liberal
shinto
30. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
monsoon
senate
aristocracy
balance of power
31. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
euro
four tigers
griot
soviet
32. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
Balfour Declaration
Manhattan project
hellenistic culture
Holocaust
33. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
monsoon
parliament
apostle
glasnost
34. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
soviet
collective farming
democratization
eightfold path
35. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
caravel
urdu
Atlantic Charter
Utopian socialist
36. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
mandate of heaven
poliburo
parallel descent
hominid
37. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
Balkans
geneva conference
loess
Australopithecus
38. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
messiah
archaeology
triple alliance
reactionary
39. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
capitalism
concession
Palestine liberation organization
Tamils
40. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
satellite nation
social Darwinism
senate
mandate of heaven
41. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
joint-stock company
genocide
harem
pogram
42. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
Warsaw pact
shariah
vietnamization
domestic system
43. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
Bell Act
council of Trent
archeology
colony
44. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
paleontologists
oracle bone
nirvana
commercial agriculture
45. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
totalitarian state
hieroglyphics
nonalignment
conservative
46. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
glasnost
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Taliban
surrealism
47. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
civilization
mandate of heaven
domino theory
world health organization
48. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
existentialism
commercial revolution
realpolitik
Truman doctrine
49. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
city-state
triangular trade
DNA dating
space station
50. 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
peace crops
balance of power
empire
glyph