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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
purdah
collective bargaining
bushido
millet
2. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
sakk
feminist
kaiser
3. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
humanism
polygamy
caravanserials
civil disobedience
4. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
third reich
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
humanism
Magyars
5. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
millet
satellite nation
glyph
theory of relativity
6. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
estates-general
manor
fourteen points
7. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
lebnsraum
papal states
scorched- earth policy
proletariat
8. The Muslim name for God
trench warfare
specialization of labor
protectorate
Allah
9. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
commercial revolution
ethnic cleansing
stream of consciousness
10. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
theocracy
middle passage
Neo- Confucianism
Deism
11. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
rotten borough
Atlantic Charter
desalinization
commercial revolution
12. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
duma
treaty of Versailles
paleolithic age
steppe
13. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
Taliban
tragedy
nirvana
stupa
14. A Latin American military dictator
encomienda
qanat
caudillo
eightfold path
15. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
world health organization
qanat
radiocarbon dating
epicureanism
16. An advocate of gradual political change
conservative
Warsaw pact
geneva conference
forbidden city
17. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
silk roads
one-child policy
genocide
treaty of Versailles
18. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
realism
Bolsheviks
island-hopping
civil service system
19. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
civil disobedience
code of Hammurabi
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
divine right of kings
20. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
Australopithecus
brinkmanship
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
scientific revolution
21. The symbol used as part of a writing system
realpolitik
glyph
Dadaism
dowry death
22. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
theory of relativity
astrolabe
surrealism
Dadaism
23. An Incan record keeping device that consisted of a cord from which were suspended a number of cords - each containing a variety of knots of various sizes shapes and colors
jazz
estates-general
quipu
third world
24. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
fascism
lebnsraum
Neolithic Revolution
cuneiform
25. Russian Parliament
conservative
duma
stateless society
space probe
26. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
hajj
commercial revolution
stream of consciousness
poliburo
27. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
qanat
manor
Palestine liberation organization
mobilization
28. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
Deism
senate
feudalism
Manchaeism
29. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
forbidden city
aristocracy
age grade
thermoluminescnce dating
30. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
triumvirate
Renaissance
capital
absolute monarch
31. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hellenistic culture
middle passage
economic imperialism
hominid
32. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
terra cotta
social Darwinism
Palestine liberation organization
loess
33. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
civil rights movement
rotten borough
archaeology
world health organization
34. A Persian king
ethnic cleansing
macadam road
shah
indulgence
35. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
nicene creed
league of nations
sakk
imperialism
36. The Hebrew name for God
Yahweh
major domo
humanism
messiah
37. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Catholic reformation
bushi
forbidden city
space station
38. Agreement between the united states and the Philippines that granted the Filipinos war damages in exchange for the establishment of free trade between the Philippines and the United States
ghetto
collective bargaining
cubism
Bell Act
39. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
philosopher
shi
creole
griot
40. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
paleolithic age
mau mau
detente
shogun
41. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
mestizo
mobilization
stateless society
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
42. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Afrikaner
sphere of influence
golden mean
internal migration
43. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
Brahmin
cubism
helot
soviet
44. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
Kellogg-Briand Pact
ziggurat
economic imperialism
hajj
45. 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
dissident
impressionism
sakk
cubism
46. A Muslim ruler
society of Jesus
macadam road
emir
pasteurization
47. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
DNA dating
jazz
liberal
socialism
48. The right of a dynasty to rule
apartheid
kinship group
legitimacy
polygamy
49. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
domestic system
poliburo
appeasement
latifundia
50. Studying fossil remains
mandate
Yom Kippur
paleontologists
radical