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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hunting and gathering
divine right of kings
gospel
foraging
consul
2. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
thermoluminescent dating
Manhattan project
qanat
monsoon
3. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
Sikhs
stoicism
Tamils
human cloning
4. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Nuremberg trials
golden mean
suffrage
5. A 26 mile race
existentialism
marathon
mau mau
strategic defense initiative
6. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
world health organization
capitalism
economic imperialism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
7. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
hellenistic culture
samurai
psychoanalysis
griot
8. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
reparation
shi
radical
capital
9. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
Allah
pastoral nomadism
time of troubles
European Union
10. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
reactionary
new deal
junkers
hellenistic culture
11. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
space probe
Homo sapiens
DNA dating
junkers
12. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
hajj
militarism
fascism
cynicism
13. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
intifada
feudalism
desalinization
scientific revolution
14. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
patriarch
reactionary
fief
realism
15. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
theocracy
Manchaeism
steppe
Boers
16. Russian Parliament
caudillo
indulgence
absolute monarch
duma
17. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
tree-ring dating
Yom Kippur
shinto
apprenticeship
18. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
shinto
four noble truths
pasteurization
urdu
19. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
euro
satrap
shi
nationalism
20. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
Dar al- Islam
absolute monarch
Manhattan project
society of Jesus
21. A Muslim ruler
apostle
messiah
manga carta
emir
22. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
luftwaffe
dissident
treaty of tordesillas
triangular trade
23. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
divine right of kings
blitzkrieg
mensheviks
Catholic reformation
24. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
animism
fresco
polytheism
kaiser
25. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
astrolabe
hubris
apartheid
mameduke
26. Soviet reform initiated in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev by which the political system was moderated to allow votes to choose from a slate of candidates
consumerism
rotten borough
tragedy
democratization
27. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
polytheism
creole
manor
proletariat
28. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
space station
four tigers
commercial agriculture
creole
29. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
justification by faith
mestizo
third world
nongovernmental organization
30. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
Brahmin
tragedy
radical
commune
31. 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
radiocarbon dating
benefice
enlightenment
archaeology
32. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
shah
nicene creed
veto
comedy
33. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
feminist
robotics
protectorate
diaspora
34. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Renaissance
parallel descent
Afrikaner
predestination
35. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
kowtow
rotten borough
DNA dating
Afrikaner
36. The organized elimination of an entire population group
operation Barbarossa
genocide
reparation
Sikhs
37. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
pasteurization
patriarchal
Australopithecus
pastoral nomadism
38. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
soviet
chinampa
paleontologists
Columbian exchange
39. Studying fossil remains
paleontologists
guest workers
domino theory
philosopher
40. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
major domo
geocentric theory
monsoon
veto
41. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
realpolitik
Inquisition
stream of consciousness
checks and balances
42. The Muslim name for God
geocentric theory
treaty of tordesillas
satellite nation
Allah
43. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
vietnamization
operation overlord
civil rights movement
consumerism
44. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
diaspora
nation-stae
triumvirate
45. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
loess
Manchaeism
oracle bone
Shiva
46. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
macadam road
Yahweh
space shuttle
guomindang
47. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
democratization
hieroglyphics
Yom Kippur
geneva conference
48. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
iconoclastic controversy
Mongol Peace
shogun
thermoluminescent dating
49. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
push-pull factors
urdu
Magyars
foraging
50. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
shia
human cloning
one-child policy
burgher