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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. Studying fossil remains
internal migration
glasnost
protectorate
paleontologists
2. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
hieroglyphics
Cyrillic alphabet
consumerism
griot
3. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
republic
Cyrillic alphabet
Cultural Revolution
enlightened despot
4. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
Sikhs
British Commonwealth
predestination
mobilization
5. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
estate
strategic defense initiative
Yahweh
nationalism
6. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
purdah
empire
triple alliance
7. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
space probe
devshirme
Justinian Code
gulf of tonkin resolution
8. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
Mongol Peace
Royal Road
middle passage
people of the book
9. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
pariah
nationalism
entrepreneurship
estates-general
10. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
purdah
Taliban
Balfour Declaration
human cloning
11. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
mobilization
Sepoys
republic
mensheviks
12. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
liberal
European Union
pasteurization
polygamy
13. The study of humans as a species
shinto
anthropology
steppe
Australopithecus
14. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
macadam road
external migration
plebeian
sphere of influence
15. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
tyrant
radical
socialism
divine right of kings
16. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
society of Jesus
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
theory of relativity
tyrant
17. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
mercantilism
nonalignment
guild
multinational corporation
18. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
Manchaeism
collective farming
gospel
factors of production
19. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
Zionism
thermoluminescnce dating
separation of powers
triumvirate
20. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
Shiva
balance of power
Afrikaner
civil disobedience
21. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
plebeian
guest workers
terra cotta
steppe
22. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
feudalism
domino theory
covenant
mameduke
23. A 26 mile race
ziggurat
marathon
pasteurization
glyph
24. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
lateen sail
Utopian socialist
treaty of Versailles
enlightenment
25. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
estate
robotics
domestic system
Taliban
26. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
balance of power
emir
civil service system
qanat
27. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
stele
burgess
papal states
world health organization
28. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
blitzkrieg
ethnic cleansing
brinkmanship
Homo sapiens
29. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
Kellogg-Briand Pact
duma
desalinization
Renaissance
30. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
gospel
trench warfare
manga carta
tragedy
31. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
forbidden city
Cultural Revolution
Royal Road
32. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
communism
tree-ring dating
divine right of kings
estate
33. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
empire
Utopian socialist
tragedy
Holocaust
34. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
daimyo
guild
Australopithecus
separation of powers
35. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
strategic defense initiative
pastoral nomadism
hajj
Balkans
36. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
patrician
treaty of Versailles
perestroika
Sikhs
37. An Incan record keeping device that consisted of a cord from which were suspended a number of cords - each containing a variety of knots of various sizes shapes and colors
satrap
mau mau
iconoclastic controversy
quipu
38. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
desalinization
artifact
militarism
Shiva
39. One who disagrees; a dissenter
Neo- Confucianism
justification by faith
psychoanalysis
dissident
40. The Jewish day of atonement
Yom Kippur
Huguenots
marathon
repartamiento
41. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
Holocaust
benefice
caravel
42. Peace plan for the post world war I world proposed by President Woodrow Wilson; its major points included the principle of self- determination and the establishment of an association of nations
pogram
fourteen points
gospel
European Union
43. Describes a male-dominated society
patrician
burgess
samurai
patriarchal
44. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
city-state
kamikaze
mobilization
ethnic cleansing
45. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
glasnost
command economy
new economic policy
romanticism
46. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
truncated pyramid
Homo sapiens
forbidden city
Mongol Peace
47. Soviet reform initiated in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev by which the political system was moderated to allow votes to choose from a slate of candidates
colony
shi
democratization
mensheviks
48. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
genocide
mestizo
radiocarbon dating
mandate of heaven
49. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
burgher
macadam road
Tarah
missi dominici
50. The power to prevent the execution of law
capitalism
veto
theocracy
perestroika