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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. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
consumerism
tyrant
entrepreneurship
Cyrillic alphabet
2. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
millet
missi dominici
diaspora
daimyo
3. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
polygamy
Neolithic Revolution
monotheism
encomienda
4. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
Shiva
cynicism
triple alliance
hajj
5. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
thermoluminescent dating
eightfold path
realism
indulgence
6. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
junkers
fief
Justinian Code
7. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
third world
indulgence
poliburo
duma
8. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
utilitarian
harem
messiah
Columbian exchange
9. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
terra cotta
Zionism
multinational corporation
new economic policy
10. 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
triple entente
checks and balances
natural selection
senate
11. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
fourteen points
nongovernmental organization
triple entente
consumerism
12. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
paleontologists
anthropology
people of the book
terra cotta
13. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
surrealism
hellenistic culture
shah
scientific revolution
14. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
Bosporus Strait
social contract
glasnost
ayatollah
15. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
sunni
Neolithic Revolution
patriarch
fourteen points
16. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
Zionism
theory of relativity
domino theory
stupa
17. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
mobilization
czar (tsar)
tragedy
nation-stae
18. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
mau mau
sati
league of nations
totalitarian state
19. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
daimyo
tyrant
collective bargaining
oracle bone
20. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
kaiser
Australopithecus
balance of power
stateless society
21. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
great lap forward
colony
Afrikaner
socialism
22. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
Holocaust
protectorate
gospel
loess
23. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
economic imperialism
Bolsheviks
shi
messiah
24. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
u-boats
space probe
consumerism
eightfold path
25. Objects shaped by humans
artifacts
middle passage
polis
guomindang
26. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
helot
polis
reparation
treaty of Versailles
27. A warrior for islam
final solution
u-boats
ghazi
gulf of tonkin resolution
28. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
estates-general
reactionary
messiah
Inquisition
29. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
Tamils
treaty of tordesillas
oracle bone
middle passage
30. 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
social contract
DNA dating
capitalism
caste
31. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
functionalism
pariah
Tarah
helsinki accords
32. 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
guomindang
peace crops
natural selection
functionalism
33. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
Columbian exchange
archaeology
emir
mandate
34. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
moderate
oracle bone
Catholic reformation
Neolithic Revolution
35. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
guomindang
neolithic age
Manhattan project
world health organization
36. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
world health organization
paleolithic age
middle passage
37. A national legislature assembly
monsoon
global village
parliament
urdu
38. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
republic
polytheism
epicureanism
samurai
39. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Afrikaner
monsoon
chinampa
Nuremberg trials
40. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
people of the book
external migration
golden mean
collective farming
41. A German emperor
u-boats
kaiser
tyrant
intifada
42. A delclaration advocating free - document signed by FDR and Churchill that expressed all of their intents in WWII - including that they sought no territorial gain - wouldn't allow a territorial change without the consent of all parties involved - an
Atlantic Charter
stele
usury
people of the book
43. Large estate in ancient Rome
protectorate
Balfour Declaration
polytheism
latifundia
44. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
Catholic reformation
human cloning
world trade center
anthropology
45. Large collective farm
vassal
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
triangular trade
commune
46. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
containment
civilization
shariah
iconoclastic controversy
47. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
burgher
one-child policy
British Commonwealth
helot
48. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
dowry death
plebeian
mau mau
world health organization
49. The belief in one god
Neolithic Revolution
monotheism
socialism
concession
50. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
Taliban
thermoluminescnce dating
liberal
zen Buddhism