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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 willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
brinkmanship
major domo
sati
civil disobedience
2. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
apprenticeship
geocentric theory
middle passage
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
3. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
shinto
helot
glasnost
middle passage
4. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
Neolithic Revolution
chinampa
theory of evolution
purdah
5. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
blitzkrieg
icon
caravanserials
peninsular
6. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
lateen sail
dharma
Atlantic Charter
Utopian socialist
7. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
postdam conference
enclosure movement
mestizo
bushi
8. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
legion
Manhattan project
zen Buddhism
empire
9. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
concession
Lend- Lease Act
fresco
latifundia
10. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
gospel
Huns
Manchaeism
11. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
Manchaeism
global village
millet
Dadaism
12. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
operation Barbarossa
satellite nation
liberal
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
13. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
internal migration
Warsaw pact
domino theory
enlightened despot
14. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
genocide
Cyrillic alphabet
militarism
duma
15. A national legislature assembly
fascism
multinational corporation
shariah
parliament
16. 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
neolithic age
intifada
devshirme
urdu
17. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
luftwaffe
karma
mestizo
Holocaust
18. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
Bell Act
forbidden city
caste
McDonaldization
19. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
usury
operation sea lion
island-hopping
triangular trade
20. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
silk roads
intifada
monsoon
laissez-faire
21. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
hominid
mystery religion
economic imperialism
feminist
22. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
karma
chlorofluorocarbons
artifacts
consul
23. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
multinational corporation
factors of production
caravel
lebnsraum
24. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
glasnost
jainissary
empire
divine right of kings
25. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
Yahweh
social Darwinism
laissez-faire
theory of evolution
26. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
qanat
operation Barbarossa
shariah
desalinization
27. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
proletariat
sakk
commercial revolution
vassal
28. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
divine right of kings
iconoclastic controversy
thermoluminescent dating
manor
29. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
socialism
four noble truths
benefice
mestizo
30. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
commune
hellenistic culture
Catholic reformation
forbidden city
31. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
stream of consciousness
kamikaze
parliament
nonalignment
32. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
peace crops
blitzkrieg
dissident
pasteurization
33. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
archaeology
Huns
marathon
civil service system
34. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
Shiva
communism
shariah
theory of evolution
35. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
triumvirate
league of nations
parallel descent
Homo sapiens
36. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
Huns
encomienda
gulf of tonkin resolution
tribune
37. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
polygamy
functionalism
Truman doctrine
scientific revolution
38. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
ghazi
encomienda
Nuremberg trials
Palestine liberation organization
39. The organized elimination of an entire population group
genocide
intifada
Zionism
plebeian
40. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
sati
operation Barbarossa
balance of power
apprenticeship
41. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
tribune
four modernizations
paleontologists
cuneiform
42. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
shi
four noble truths
colony
philosopher
43. Russian Parliament
hieroglyphics
duma
kamikaze
global village
44. 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
repartamiento
colony
treaty of Versailles
shah
45. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
archaeology
paleolithic age
stele
mobilization
46. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
mercantilism
peninsular
ghetto
nirvana
47. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
iconoclastic controversy
republic
triumvirate
animism
48. A Muslim ruler
emir
lebnsraum
caravel
commune
49. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
stoicism
caste
divine right of kings
sphere of influence
50. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
command economy
karma
separation of powers
Taliban