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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
archeology
Yom Kippur
great lap forward
ethnic cleansing
2. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
kinship group
Warsaw pact
mameduke
dynasty
3. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
quinine
vietnamization
legitimacy
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
4. The study of humans as a species
nation-stae
caste
quipu
anthropology
5. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
manor
realpolitik
sphere of influence
hieroglyphics
6. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
dissident
eightfold path
polis
romanticism
7. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
domestic system
one-child policy
devshirme
guomindang
8. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
anthropology
quinine
city-state
collective bargaining
9. The symbol used as part of a writing system
people of the book
glyph
qanat
world trade organization
10. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
third world
Sepoys
island-hopping
gospel
11. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
tyrant
jainissary
four modernizations
soviet
12. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
constitutional monarchy
sunni
Australopithecus
third world
13. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
mercantilism
Bosporus Strait
shariah
intifada
14. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
apprenticeship
mandate of heaven
marathon
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
15. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
karma
Columbian exchange
caste
operation overlord
16. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
patriarch
Huguenots
polygamy
fresco
17. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
radical
neolithic age
Kellogg-Briand Pact
benefice
18. A ceasefire agreement
fresco
triumvirate
armistice
desalinization
19. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
code of Hammurabi
concession
cuneiform
city-state
20. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
repartamiento
domestic system
kaiser
code of Hammurabi
21. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
satellite nation
polis
Bolsheviks
Utopian socialist
22. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
pastoral nomadism
soviet
monotheism
messiah
23. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
internal migration
Holocaust
four noble truths
tyrant
24. The Hebrew name for God
abolition
monsoon
Yahweh
mau mau
25. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
sakk
gulf of tonkin resolution
aristocracy
archeology
26. 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
fresco
mercantilism
operation overlord
social Darwinism
27. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
ghetto
multinational corporation
Dar al- Islam
reparation
28. A political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism and loyalty to the sate and features one-party rule by an authoritarian ruler
peninsular
world trade center
space station
fascism
29. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
legion
peace crops
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
hieroglyphics
30. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
factors of production
propaganda
civil rights movement
empire
31. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
desalinization
constitutional monarchy
Brahmin
external migration
32. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
Atlantic Charter
edict of Nantes
scientific revolution
communism
33. 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
impressionism
Taliban
plebeian
robotics
34. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
nonalignment
Zionism
blitzkrieg
consumerism
35. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
commune
luftwaffe
kinship group
mercantilism
36. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
triple entente
yin and yang
caravel
mystery religion
37. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
Nuremberg trials
humanism
comedy
factors of production
38. Muslim social and ethical law
laissez-faire
shariah
green revolution
Bosporus Strait
39. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
animism
papal states
Columbian exchange
40. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
glasnost
caravel
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
existentialism
41. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
neolithic age
Tarah
Sikhs
collective farming
42. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
civilization
scorched- earth policy
harem
parliament
43. Agreement between the united states and the Philippines that granted the Filipinos war damages in exchange for the establishment of free trade between the Philippines and the United States
commune
burgess
patriarch
Bell Act
44. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
reparation
natural selection
Nuremberg trials
satrap
45. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
world health organization
bushido
dharma
genocide
46. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
guild
Australopithecus
Huns
Utopian socialist
47. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
people of the book
conservative
mobilization
chivalry
48. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
thermoluminescnce dating
space station
peninsular
mandate
49. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
code of Hammurabi
collective farming
Hagia Sophia
stem cell research
50. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
oracle bone
five pillars
Inquisition
Afrikaner