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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 development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
conservative
reparation
diaspora
specialization of labor
2. 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
burgher
gospel
encomienda
checks and balances
3. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
burqa
monsoon
parallel descent
DNA dating
4. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
poliburo
mandate of heaven
divine right of kings
astrolabe
5. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
stream of consciousness
mensheviks
specialization of labor
capital
6. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
hubris
scorched- earth policy
collective farming
push-pull factors
7. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
moderate
chinampa
commercial agriculture
Bosporus Strait
8. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
shia
colony
icon
lebnsraum
9. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
parallel descent
aristocracy
guest workers
comedy
10. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
parallel descent
czar (tsar)
kinship group
space station
11. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
kibbutzim
scorched- earth policy
Magyars
Balkans
12. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
armistice
separation of powers
world trade center
archeology
13. Large collective farm
commune
existentialism
encomienda
mensheviks
14. A political system in which a monarch or noble granted land to other nobles in exchange for military services - protection and loyalty
qanat
totalitarian state
feudalism
satellite nation
15. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
Palestine liberation organization
burqa
concession
messiah
16. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
natural selection
Hagia Sophia
Kellogg-Briand Pact
time of troubles
17. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
space probe
quinine
absolute monarch
blitzkrieg
18. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
republic
Balfour Declaration
kowtow
capital
19. The Muslim community of faithful
Kellogg-Briand Pact
plebeian
patriarchal
umma
20. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
British Commonwealth
iconoclastic controversy
dowry death
yin and yang
21. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
karma
veto
triangular trade
marshall plan
22. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
protectorate
Boers
harem
patrician
23. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
Royal Road
foraging
consumerism
empire
24. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
legion
usury
ayatollah
helot
25. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
chivalry
shinto
kinship group
final solution
26. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
appeasement
junkers
senate
enlightenment
27. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
manga carta
Neolithic Revolution
operation overlord
romanticism
28. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
extraterritorial rights
shinto
dictator
four noble truths
29. 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
Holocaust
civil service system
Cultural Revolution
luftwaffe
30. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
triple alliance
push-pull factors
zen Buddhism
parallel descent
31. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
space station
Reconquest
messiah
five-year plans
32. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
Swahili
pastoral nomadism
shi
space station
33. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
artifacts
missi dominici
proletariat
functionalism
34. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
patrician
icon
dictator
Neo- Confucianism
35. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
senate
satrap
DNA dating
nation-stae
36. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
one-child policy
Anabaptists
sunni
37. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
caste
latifundia
luftwaffe
patrician
38. 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
monotheism
social Darwinism
middle passage
steppe
39. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
Cyrillic alphabet
collective farming
factors of production
Catholic reformation
40. A national legislature assembly
griot
creole
parliament
commune
41. Member of elite class in ancient rome
hajj
patrician
mameduke
Swahili
42. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
Tarah
ghetto
triumvirate
people of the book
43. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
archeology
icon
colony
human cloning
44. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
stateless society
peninsular
emir
Deism
45. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
intifada
terra cotta
psychoanalysis
impressionism
46. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
Manchaeism
liberal
nicene creed
triple alliance
47. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
Hagia Sophia
geocentric theory
yin and yang
mandate of heaven
48. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
realism
functionalism
economic imperialism
Truman doctrine
49. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
chinampa
tragedy
dowry death
stele
50. The study of humans as a species
pastoral nomadism
republic
anthropology
pariah