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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
marshall plan
geneva conference
perestroika
lateen sail
2. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
triple alliance
Catholic reformation
caste
predestination
3. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
coalition
pariah
fief
Balkans
4. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
lebnsraum
Sikhs
joint-stock company
paleolithic age
5. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
icon
reparation
qanat
golden mean
6. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Zionism
Hagia Sophia
African National Congress
devshirme
7. Russian emperor
czar (tsar)
benefice
Swahili
poliburo
8. Member of elite class in ancient rome
patrician
balance of power
specialization of labor
guomindang
9. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
dissident
justification by faith
Brahmin
economic imperialism
10. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
functionalism
Magyars
apartheid
civil disobedience
11. A German emperor
new economic policy
oracle bone
kibbutzim
kaiser
12. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
foraging
totalitarian state
socialism
commune
13. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
benefice
animism
kibbutzim
consumerism
14. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
animism
five-year plans
Tamils
scorched- earth policy
15. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
kibbutzim
legitimacy
middle passage
detente
16. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
moderate
specialization of labor
Cyrillic alphabet
epicureanism
17. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
pasteurization
caravanserials
enclosure movement
18. A political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism and loyalty to the sate and features one-party rule by an authoritarian ruler
Swahili
patriarchal
protectorate
fascism
19. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
Huguenots
manga carta
anthropology
rotten borough
20. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
Nuremberg trials
kowtow
civilization
Sepoys
21. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
umma
foraging
Atlantic Charter
global village
22. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
thermoluminescent dating
rotten borough
liberal
hieroglyphics
23. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
soviet
separation of powers
theocracy
green revolution
24. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
conservative
Dar al- Islam
diaspora
theory of evolution
25. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
Boers
theocracy
hubris
bushi
26. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
feminist
monotheism
society of Jesus
Nuremberg trials
27. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
geneva conference
bushido
peninsular
communism
28. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
benefice
pogram
hijra
missi dominici
29. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
commercial agriculture
macadam road
Afrikaner
romanticism
30. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
guild
space shuttle
dowry death
operation Barbarossa
31. A Persian king
empire
detente
shah
nationalism
32. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
impressionism
intifada
collective farming
operation Barbarossa
33. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
oracle bone
league of nations
operation overlord
feminist
34. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
feudalism
social Darwinism
ghetto
helsinki accords
35. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
hieroglyphics
gulf of tonkin resolution
economic imperialism
predestination
36. The Muslim community of faithful
paleontologists
consul
umma
four tigers
37. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
macadam road
command economy
polis
bourgeoisie
38. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
intifada
usury
people of the book
Cultural Revolution
39. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
European Union
caudillo
DNA dating
utilitarian
40. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
suffrage
Tarah
steppe
final solution
41. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
conservative
plebeian
people of the book
archaeology
42. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
one-child policy
Huns
appeasement
artifacts
43. 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
consumerism
checks and balances
world trade organization
lebnsraum
44. A delclaration advocating free - document signed by FDR and Churchill that expressed all of their intents in WWII - including that they sought no territorial gain - wouldn't allow a territorial change without the consent of all parties involved - an
Atlantic Charter
realism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
karma
45. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
icon
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
legion
Dadaism
46. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
suffrage
constitutional monarchy
seppuku
entrepreneurship
47. 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
treaty of Versailles
operation sea lion
ghazi
aristocracy
48. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Kellogg-Briand Pact
African National Congress
burqa
paleontologists
49. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
Cultural Revolution
Royal Road
epicureanism
Hagia Sophia
50. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
animism
Bolsheviks
kibbutzim
oracle bone