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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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
archaeology
feminist
patrician
consumerism
2. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
plebeian
hijra
nicene creed
stele
3. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Hagia Sophia
nonalignment
pariah
umma
4. 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
natural selection
creole
suffrage
anthropology
5. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
polytheism
Bolsheviks
moderate
appeasement
6. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
aristocracy
Mongol Peace
realism
senate
7. A political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism and loyalty to the sate and features one-party rule by an authoritarian ruler
liberal
ghetto
nationalism
fascism
8. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
pasteurization
gospel
romanticism
apostle
9. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shinto
concession
laissez-faire
Inquisition
10. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
great lap forward
shogun
Holocaust
Renaissance
11. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
dynasty
patrician
feminist
theory of evolution
12. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
blitzkrieg
totalitarian state
one-child policy
benefice
13. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
samurai
operation overlord
u-boats
feminist
14. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
legion
apartheid
cynicism
Cyrillic alphabet
15. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
sunni
republic
mercantilism
Allah
16. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
loess
samurai
comedy
peace crops
17. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
usury
genocide
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
18. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
propaganda
civil rights movement
four tigers
apostle
19. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
space probe
jainissary
scorched- earth policy
humanism
20. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
caravanserials
stream of consciousness
hijra
space station
21. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
appeasement
scientific revolution
triple alliance
capitalism
22. 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
parallel descent
scientific revolution
shia
23. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
justification by faith
kibbutzim
pastoral nomadism
command economy
24. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
separation of powers
fourteen points
Columbian exchange
Cyrillic alphabet
25. A Persian king
shah
great lap forward
diocese
comedy
26. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
Zionism
astrolabe
Protestant Reformation
civil rights movement
27. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
triple entente
dynasty
vassal
socialism
28. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
edict of Nantes
Afrikaner
monsoon
mystery religion
29. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
monsoon
hajj
Atlantic Charter
ziggurat
30. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
containment
world trade center
five-year plans
cuneiform
31. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
dharma
Cultural Revolution
paleolithic age
theocracy
32. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
emir
trench warfare
council of Trent
space station
33. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
diocese
Tarah
cuneiform
Catholic reformation
34. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
hellenistic culture
Royal Road
third world
comedy
35. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
Huns
griot
silk roads
predestination
36. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
five-year plans
creole
helsinki accords
reactionary
37. The Jewish day of atonement
Yom Kippur
stem cell research
shia
liberal
38. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
Sepoys
blitzkrieg
city-state
caravanserials
39. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
league of nations
parliament
vietnamization
Brahmin
40. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
justification by faith
major domo
Royal Road
Inquisition
41. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
Cultural Revolution
polis
consul
encomienda
42. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
nonalignment
cubism
purdah
satrap
43. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
serf
glasnost
utilitarian
diocese
44. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
Australopithecus
homeland
vassal
pariah
45. French Protestants
daimyo
Huguenots
Manchaeism
hominid
46. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
serf
helot
operation overlord
patriarch
47. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
armistice
internal migration
world trade center
theocracy
48. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
helot
laissez-faire
new economic policy
cynicism
49. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
council of Trent
plebeian
griot
Reconquest
50. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
radical
protectorate
vietnamization
devshirme