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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
yin and yang
strategic defense initiative
shi
tree-ring dating
2. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
gulf of tonkin resolution
mensheviks
proletariat
legitimacy
3. The belief in one god
postdam conference
new deal
monotheism
Tarah
4. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Sikhs
caravanserials
realpolitik
Royal Road
5. The concept of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu that each branch of government be granted distinct powers that served to limit those of the other branches of the government
middle passage
cynicism
checks and balances
guest workers
6. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
fascism
czar (tsar)
Sepoys
specialization of labor
7. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
creole
tyrant
stoicism
nationalism
8. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
fourteen points
mandate of heaven
coalition
radiocarbon dating
9. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
pariah
hubris
mandate of heaven
commercial revolution
10. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
Yalta Conference
kowtow
Truman doctrine
Renaissance
11. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
commercial revolution
British Commonwealth
scorched- earth policy
Sepoys
12. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
shah
glasnost
league of nations
space probe
13. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
capital
lateen sail
dynasty
mandate
14. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
colony
monsoon
Dar al- Islam
geocentric theory
15. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
mameduke
steppe
Bell Act
constitutional monarchy
16. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
four noble truths
thermoluminescnce dating
mau mau
theory of evolution
17. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
African National Congress
sunni
enlightened despot
zen Buddhism
18. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
loess
democratization
Brahmin
new economic policy
19. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
functionalism
empire
Anabaptists
aristocracy
20. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
factors of production
hieroglyphics
Nuremberg trials
iconoclastic controversy
21. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
pastoral nomadism
Taliban
existentialism
pasteurization
22. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
scientific revolution
usury
caudillo
yin and yang
23. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
marathon
latifundia
Dadaism
hijra
24. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
senate
shah
perestroika
gospel
25. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
shah
stateless society
griot
checks and balances
26. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
covenant
golden mean
archeology
empire
27. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
factors of production
seppuku
stele
colony
28. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
impressionism
chivalry
final solution
nongovernmental organization
29. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
lebnsraum
existentialism
Dar al- Islam
30. 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
patrician
impressionism
archeology
communism
31. A grant of land in medieval Europe
soviet
fief
hellenistic culture
Yalta Conference
32. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
Swahili
iconoclastic controversy
stream of consciousness
psychoanalysis
33. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
Balkans
Cultural Revolution
economic imperialism
ziggurat
34. The organized elimination of an entire population group
enlightened despot
genocide
robotics
Royal Road
35. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
sati
patriarch
Mongol Peace
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
36. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
manor
indulgence
Cultural Revolution
37. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
Homo sapiens
archeology
ziggurat
luftwaffe
38. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
emir
benefice
senate
39. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
blitzkrieg
Columbian exchange
empire
radical
40. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
millet
gospel
social Darwinism
burgher
41. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
gulf of tonkin resolution
stream of consciousness
capital
Manchaeism
42. The right of a dynasty to rule
Lend- Lease Act
Truman doctrine
legitimacy
stream of consciousness
43. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
existentialism
fascism
push-pull factors
justification by faith
44. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
Nuremberg trials
triple entente
Protestant Reformation
archaeology
45. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
fascism
devshirme
moderate
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
46. A political system in which a monarch or noble granted land to other nobles in exchange for military services - protection and loyalty
senate
loess
feudalism
daimyo
47. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
Mongol Peace
seppuku
paleolithic age
radiocarbon dating
48. One who disagrees; a dissenter
Manchaeism
eightfold path
dissident
predestination
49. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
paleontologists
nationalism
Afrikaner
Deism
50. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
glyph
edict of Nantes
hijra
patriarchal