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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
Kellogg-Briand Pact
stem cell research
great lap forward
mameduke
2. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
containment
blitzkrieg
macadam road
reactionary
3. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
epicureanism
tragedy
caravel
indulgence
4. An object shaped by humans
Bosporus Strait
daimyo
artifact
burgher
5. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
animism
triumvirate
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
veto
6. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Catholic reformation
commercial revolution
dynasty
parallel descent
7. 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
cuneiform
diocese
repartamiento
democratization
8. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
ayatollah
steppe
Mongol Peace
reparation
9. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
consumerism
joint-stock company
euro
social Darwinism
10. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
world trade organization
coalition
plebeian
archaeology
11. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
external migration
Bolsheviks
time of troubles
foraging
12. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
divine right of kings
society of Jesus
totalitarian state
joint-stock company
13. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
animism
shogun
silk roads
vassal
14. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
shi
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Columbian exchange
15. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
nonalignment
animism
umma
Huns
16. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
collective bargaining
oracle bone
guest workers
Royal Road
17. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
appeasement
one-child policy
vassal
ayatollah
18. The organized elimination of an entire population group
European Union
genocide
peace crops
five pillars
19. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
thermoluminescent dating
philosopher
cynicism
burqa
20. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
Palestine liberation organization
mameduke
Cyrillic alphabet
thermoluminescnce dating
21. The Hebrew name for God
Tamils
nongovernmental organization
Yahweh
external migration
22. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
lateen sail
sphere of influence
psychoanalysis
millet
23. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
moderate
epicureanism
radical
African National Congress
24. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
Nuremberg trials
monotheism
Huns
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
25. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
Bosporus Strait
four modernizations
radiocarbon dating
Palestine liberation organization
26. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
radiocarbon dating
Taliban
animism
homeland
27. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
world health organization
triple alliance
empire
DNA dating
28. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
world health organization
aristocracy
chlorofluorocarbons
democratization
29. A grant of land in medieval Europe
pasteurization
laissez-faire
comedy
fief
30. 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
cubism
peace crops
Allah
hajj
31. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
four tigers
diaspora
new deal
balance of power
32. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
radiocarbon dating
commercial agriculture
entrepreneurship
chivalry
33. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
neolithic age
kaiser
four tigers
Homo sapiens
34. The german air force
guild
marshall plan
luftwaffe
tragedy
35. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
Columbian exchange
robotics
burgher
millet
36. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
society of Jesus
surrealism
Royal Road
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
37. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
polygamy
romanticism
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
38. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
emir
operation sea lion
fourteen points
bushi
39. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
league of nations
eightfold path
luftwaffe
sunni
40. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
homeland
city-state
Tamils
external migration
41. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
repartamiento
Allah
operation Barbarossa
republic
42. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
missi dominici
militarism
coalition
43. 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
quipu
yin and yang
euro
operation Barbarossa
44. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
treaty of tordesillas
parallel descent
enclosure movement
latifundia
45. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
Deism
absolute monarch
karma
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
46. 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
extraterritorial rights
glyph
comedy
47. 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
social Darwinism
desalinization
anthropology
fief
48. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
pogram
British Commonwealth
quipu
legion
49. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
imperialism
kibbutzim
dynasty
European Union
50. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
Truman doctrine
duma
consumerism
mensheviks