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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
liberal
Utopian socialist
Bolsheviks
treaty of tordesillas
2. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
time of troubles
stele
nicene creed
3. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
bushi
third reich
separation of powers
daimyo
4. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
peninsular
hellenistic culture
helot
social contract
5. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
city-state
legion
economic imperialism
four tigers
6. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
Neo- Confucianism
fresco
Allah
Mongol Peace
7. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
icon
kamikaze
hellenistic culture
Taliban
8. The organized elimination of an entire population group
surrealism
pasteurization
genocide
glyph
9. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
pastoral nomadism
paleolithic age
helot
new deal
10. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
human cloning
Balfour Declaration
coalition
Kellogg-Briand Pact
11. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
marshall plan
burqa
bourgeoisie
burgher
12. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
Balfour Declaration
mameduke
external migration
gospel
13. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
humanism
moderate
manor
hieroglyphics
14. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
cubism
yin and yang
Homo sapiens
kaiser
15. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
Columbian exchange
factors of production
legitimacy
realpolitik
16. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
satellite nation
mau mau
pogram
triangular trade
17. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
scorched- earth policy
stateless society
Magyars
hieroglyphics
18. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
papal states
eightfold path
Dar al- Islam
qanat
19. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
mameduke
marathon
patriarchal
pogram
20. A warrior for islam
radical
blitzkrieg
tragedy
ghazi
21. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
serf
Royal Road
domestic system
22. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
tragedy
age grade
consumerism
monsoon
23. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
utilitarian
third world
balance of power
missi dominici
24. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
hieroglyphics
dynasty
multinational corporation
sati
25. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
Utopian socialist
enlightenment
external migration
26. 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
Australopithecus
estate
devshirme
propaganda
27. 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
mercantilism
Bell Act
animism
colony
28. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
manor
dissident
appeasement
mercantilism
29. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
stateless society
Truman doctrine
romanticism
Sikhs
30. Marriage to more than one wife
kibbutzim
specialization of labor
polygamy
hieroglyphics
31. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
dynasty
archeology
kinship group
chivalry
32. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
checks and balances
nirvana
one-child policy
sati
33. In feudal Europe - a peasant bound to the lord's land
Holocaust
serf
marshall plan
kowtow
34. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
Atlantic Charter
specialization of labor
diaspora
lebnsraum
35. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
nationalism
peninsular
geneva conference
civil disobedience
36. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
helsinki accords
Justinian Code
parallel descent
daimyo
37. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
society of Jesus
samurai
scorched- earth policy
38. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
Swahili
dictator
Tamils
golden mean
39. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
satrap
benefice
triple entente
tribune
40. The german air force
luftwaffe
radical
global village
helsinki accords
41. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
Renaissance
daimyo
steppe
encomienda
42. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
four noble truths
final solution
commercial agriculture
tree-ring dating
43. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
veto
jainissary
mensheviks
duma
44. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
gospel
stem cell research
Atlantic Charter
European Union
45. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
robotics
Australopithecus
nongovernmental organization
utilitarian
46. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
mensheviks
helsinki accords
collective bargaining
Catholic reformation
47. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
cynicism
ziggurat
apprenticeship
McDonaldization
48. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
world trade organization
green revolution
triangular trade
mobilization
49. 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
hominid
socialism
mobilization
50. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
mandate
new economic policy
estates-general
karma