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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
Bell Act
paleolithic age
geocentric theory
Protestant Reformation
2. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
nicene creed
utilitarian
treaty of tordesillas
republic
3. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
stateless society
Zionism
Anabaptists
triple alliance
4. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
Swahili
cuneiform
bourgeoisie
mobilization
5. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
karma
middle passage
comedy
Zionism
6. Muslim social and ethical law
patrician
shariah
quinine
Yahweh
7. French Protestants
caste
space probe
theory of evolution
Huguenots
8. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
cubism
monsoon
desalinization
absolute monarch
9. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
oracle bone
burgher
caste
pariah
10. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
hellenistic culture
balance of power
manor
people of the book
11. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
communism
appeasement
papal states
nicene creed
12. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
fresco
philosopher
shi
tree-ring dating
13. A 1945 conference help at post damn - Germany in which Truman and Churchill met with Stalin to attempt to persuade him to abandon his policy of domination of the soviet satellite nations
civilization
absolute monarch
postdam conference
command economy
14. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
desalinization
treaty of Versailles
Holocaust
Magyars
15. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
consul
Huguenots
geocentric theory
marshall plan
16. An antimalarial drug
comedy
quinine
radiocarbon dating
world trade organization
17. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
archaeology
nationalism
realpolitik
satrap
18. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
daimyo
samurai
space station
capitalism
19. 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
DNA dating
consumerism
fief
social contract
20. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
homeland
justification by faith
tribune
chinampa
21. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
ethnic cleansing
rotten borough
Cyrillic alphabet
peace crops
22. The technology associated with the application of robots
Utopian socialist
estate
robotics
Hagia Sophia
23. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
illuminated manuscript
poliburo
mercantilism
Catholic reformation
24. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
messiah
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
utilitarian
socialism
25. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
helot
one-child policy
Palestine liberation organization
jainissary
26. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
patriarch
fresco
tribune
hubris
27. 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
marshall plan
kamikaze
legitimacy
democratization
28. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
Utopian socialist
league of nations
samurai
Taliban
29. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
operation Barbarossa
entrepreneurship
caudillo
enclosure movement
30. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
mandate of heaven
hellenistic culture
chlorofluorocarbons
manga carta
31. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
Mongol Peace
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
apostle
triumvirate
32. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
stem cell research
Tamils
suffrage
mameduke
33. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
brinkmanship
theory of relativity
domino theory
entrepreneurship
34. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
four noble truths
junkers
jazz
veto
35. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
apostle
domestic system
concession
multinational corporation
36. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
vietnamization
Palestine liberation organization
league of nations
Taliban
37. A political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism and loyalty to the sate and features one-party rule by an authoritarian ruler
consul
nonalignment
liberal
fascism
38. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
czar (tsar)
ghetto
Sepoys
edict of Nantes
39. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
specialization of labor
Truman doctrine
foraging
balance of power
40. The right to vote
luftwaffe
radical
suffrage
hellenistic culture
41. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
enlightened despot
geneva conference
Brahmin
Deism
42. Large collective farm
commune
humanism
Ka'aba
stoicism
43. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
jazz
Neolithic Revolution
new deal
green revolution
44. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
Renaissance
feudalism
British Commonwealth
push-pull factors
45. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
nirvana
euro
league of nations
third reich
46. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
triple alliance
Holocaust
glasnost
pasteurization
47. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
lateen sail
perestroika
cuneiform
Deism
48. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
caravanserials
collective farming
burqa
space probe
49. The study of humans as a species
Afrikaner
anthropology
estate
Hagia Sophia
50. The Jewish day of atonement
estate
justification by faith
Yom Kippur
pasteurization