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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. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
mandate
world health organization
epicureanism
aristocracy
2. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
hubris
Brahmin
mameduke
hominid
3. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
space shuttle
hubris
civil disobedience
rotten borough
4. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
liberal
commercial agriculture
Utopian socialist
legion
5. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
estates-general
radiocarbon dating
specialization of labor
Royal Road
6. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
theory of evolution
epicureanism
balance of power
economic imperialism
7. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
space station
radical
nonalignment
tribune
8. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
dowry death
ghazi
proletariat
missi dominici
9. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
icon
estate
millet
middle passage
10. The Muslim community of faithful
umma
paleontologists
helsinki accords
Cultural Revolution
11. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
fresco
dharma
parliament
repartamiento
12. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
armistice
Protestant Reformation
Taliban
African National Congress
13. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
serf
thermoluminescent dating
cuneiform
fresco
14. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
pastoral nomadism
feudalism
samurai
fourteen points
15. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
emir
Tamils
stupa
empire
16. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
creole
mobilization
archaeology
hieroglyphics
17. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
third world
Truman doctrine
diaspora
chlorofluorocarbons
18. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
shariah
Protestant Reformation
Cultural Revolution
city-state
19. Marriage to more than one wife
polygamy
parallel descent
external migration
strategic defense initiative
20. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
dissident
luftwaffe
neolithic age
ethnic cleansing
21. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
civil rights movement
cynicism
Tamils
theory of relativity
22. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
Yahweh
philosopher
manor
thermoluminescnce dating
23. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
romanticism
devshirme
radiocarbon dating
desalinization
24. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
Inquisition
jazz
McDonaldization
social contract
25. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
monotheism
Protestant Reformation
cubism
cuneiform
26. 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
Lend- Lease Act
radiocarbon dating
fourteen points
Afrikaner
27. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
seppuku
quinine
griot
concession
28. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
existentialism
strategic defense initiative
mameduke
shia
29. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
caravanserials
Zionism
guest workers
u-boats
30. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
euro
kinship group
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
manor
31. A Muslim ruler
scientific revolution
postdam conference
emir
hieroglyphics
32. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
guest workers
czar (tsar)
quinine
bourgeoisie
33. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
trench warfare
island-hopping
city-state
communism
34. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
Yom Kippur
nationalism
gulf of tonkin resolution
Cultural Revolution
35. 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
propaganda
Bell Act
world trade center
final solution
36. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
rotten borough
Hagia Sophia
patrician
zen Buddhism
37. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
bushi
capital
shogun
parliament
38. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
icon
factors of production
griot
five pillars
39. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
collective farming
extraterritorial rights
creole
Hagia Sophia
40. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
edict of Nantes
Tarah
shia
Yalta Conference
41. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
tyrant
Brahmin
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
DNA dating
42. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Reconquest
dissident
burqa
socialism
43. The power to prevent the execution of law
commune
veto
Mongol Peace
homeland
44. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
theocracy
helsinki accords
aristocracy
polis
45. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
nicene creed
bourgeoisie
nation-stae
society of Jesus
46. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
divine right of kings
lebnsraum
nicene creed
Australopithecus
47. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
comedy
detente
tree-ring dating
appeasement
48. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
world trade organization
mau mau
time of troubles
apartheid
49. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
legitimacy
nicene creed
forbidden city
hijra
50. A national legislature assembly
caudillo
tyrant
DNA dating
parliament