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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
balance of power
mystery religion
messiah
Homo sapiens
2. A warrior for islam
imperialism
middle passage
ghazi
Cultural Revolution
3. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
treaty of Versailles
new deal
fresco
coalition
4. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
estates-general
hieroglyphics
guest workers
burgess
5. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
burgher
green revolution
euro
aristocracy
6. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
dynasty
hajj
trench warfare
realpolitik
7. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
humanism
tyrant
checks and balances
shi
8. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
qanat
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
nonalignment
purdah
9. Large collective farm
existentialism
new economic policy
commune
kinship group
10. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
third world
Brahmin
one-child policy
pastoral nomadism
11. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
people of the book
Manhattan project
human cloning
senate
12. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
tree-ring dating
harem
Allah
hijra
13. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
Bosporus Strait
world health organization
five-year plans
creole
14. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
oracle bone
enlightenment
Lend- Lease Act
league of nations
15. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
hajj
triangular trade
shah
caravel
16. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
mameduke
Utopian socialist
stele
strategic defense initiative
17. A 26 mile race
marathon
sakk
mandate
republic
18. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
parliament
third reich
romanticism
detente
19. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
missi dominici
Manhattan project
stoicism
mameduke
20. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
ghazi
feminist
karma
apostle
21. A Muslim ruler
sati
ethnic cleansing
manga carta
emir
22. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
Tamils
ghazi
nongovernmental organization
anthropology
23. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
parallel descent
society of Jesus
natural selection
detente
24. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
shah
shi
justification by faith
psychoanalysis
25. 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
gulf of tonkin resolution
radiocarbon dating
soviet
26. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
civilization
mameduke
existentialism
brinkmanship
27. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
lebnsraum
diocese
Balfour Declaration
Manhattan project
28. A Latin American military dictator
edict of Nantes
stateless society
caudillo
dharma
29. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
oracle bone
third reich
chlorofluorocarbons
five-year plans
30. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
triple alliance
senate
mandate
command economy
31. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
Manhattan project
justification by faith
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
vietnamization
32. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
containment
nonalignment
ghazi
scorched- earth policy
33. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
Cyrillic alphabet
Yahweh
estate
mau mau
34. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
dictator
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
world trade organization
gulf of tonkin resolution
35. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Deism
operation sea lion
thermoluminescent dating
mobilization
36. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
chlorofluorocarbons
command economy
griot
ghazi
37. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
commercial revolution
steppe
enlightenment
Taliban
38. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
u-boats
manor
Manchaeism
satellite nation
39. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
utilitarian
theocracy
capitalism
artifacts
40. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
41. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
chinampa
treaty of tordesillas
neolithic age
hieroglyphics
42. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
stream of consciousness
mameduke
theory of relativity
kowtow
43. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
consul
Balkans
Protestant Reformation
nongovernmental organization
44. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
Renaissance
kamikaze
mercantilism
radical
45. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
satellite nation
peace crops
socialism
hijra
46. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
Utopian socialist
green revolution
impressionism
philosopher
47. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
empire
human cloning
peninsular
48. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
comedy
liberal
kamikaze
sakk
49. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
Lend- Lease Act
five-year plans
burqa
Protestant Reformation
50. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
jazz
perestroika
Reconquest
mameduke