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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
operation sea lion
desalinization
samurai
marathon
2. Large collective farm
oracle bone
luftwaffe
blitzkrieg
commune
3. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
silk roads
foraging
philosopher
illuminated manuscript
4. 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
apartheid
five-year plans
gospel
checks and balances
5. A government of three rulers
constitutional monarchy
millet
Royal Road
triumvirate
6. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
gospel
thermoluminescent dating
glasnost
triangular trade
7. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
time of troubles
Mongol Peace
robotics
four modernizations
8. A 26 mile race
marathon
cuneiform
command economy
Neo- Confucianism
9. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
Huguenots
Yahweh
entrepreneurship
Shiva
10. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
middle passage
brinkmanship
shogun
proletariat
11. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
utilitarian
parallel descent
czar (tsar)
commercial revolution
12. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
perestroika
apartheid
Reconquest
repartamiento
13. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
collective farming
Manchaeism
triple entente
golden mean
14. A Latin American military dictator
robotics
patriarchal
Palestine liberation organization
caudillo
15. The right of a dynasty to rule
legitimacy
justification by faith
radical
fief
16. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
geocentric theory
proletariat
four noble truths
empire
17. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
truncated pyramid
hajj
league of nations
guild
18. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
collective farming
mestizo
mameduke
steppe
19. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
African National Congress
moderate
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
peace crops
20. A warrior for islam
ghazi
realpolitik
millet
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
21. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
coalition
laissez-faire
operation overlord
consumerism
22. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
mercantilism
Royal Road
armistice
Dar al- Islam
23. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
hijra
divine right of kings
operation overlord
factors of production
24. A Persian king
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
world health organization
shah
mercantilism
25. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
Lend- Lease Act
quipu
triangular trade
oracle bone
26. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
tragedy
absolute monarch
mandate
one-child policy
27. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
space shuttle
multinational corporation
middle passage
fresco
28. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
Sepoys
quinine
operation overlord
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
29. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
diocese
caste
bourgeoisie
satrap
30. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
brinkmanship
pariah
quipu
samurai
31. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
edict of Nantes
hominid
economic imperialism
reparation
32. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
imperialism
jainissary
laissez-faire
containment
33. Muslim social and ethical law
tribune
shariah
Allah
nirvana
34. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
enclosure movement
silk roads
Dadaism
Deism
35. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
apartheid
Manhattan project
thermoluminescent dating
Yalta Conference
36. The study of humans as a species
estate
anthropology
empire
Huns
37. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
Protestant Reformation
joint-stock company
new deal
four modernizations
38. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
social Darwinism
British Commonwealth
domestic system
Yalta Conference
39. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
people of the book
four tigers
poliburo
ayatollah
40. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
zen Buddhism
world health organization
hieroglyphics
satrap
41. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
stupa
jainissary
theory of relativity
Huguenots
42. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
Australopithecus
gospel
operation overlord
kaiser
43. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
dynasty
external migration
third world
desalinization
44. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
senate
mandate
sati
Hagia Sophia
45. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
Mongol Peace
peace crops
satrap
desalinization
46. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
ghetto
poliburo
Nuremberg trials
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
47. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
patriarch
rotten borough
major domo
command economy
48. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
external migration
animism
mercantilism
enlightenment
49. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
ziggurat
Huns
enlightened despot
republic
50. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
protectorate
mau mau
covenant
mercantilism