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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
four tigers
veto
Neo- Confucianism
mobilization
2. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
covenant
enclosure movement
tyrant
bushido
3. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
burgess
eightfold path
czar (tsar)
thermoluminescent dating
4. A greak city-state
polis
Brahmin
qanat
four noble truths
5. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
yin and yang
senate
Atlantic Charter
diocese
6. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
Columbian exchange
society of Jesus
feminist
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
7. Muslim social and ethical law
Manchaeism
qanat
shariah
code of Hammurabi
8. 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
mercantilism
artifacts
Cultural Revolution
mandate of heaven
9. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
mercantilism
quipu
realism
detente
10. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
code of Hammurabi
Ka'aba
Bolsheviks
hajj
11. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
one-child policy
ziggurat
humanism
guomindang
12. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
Taliban
abolition
triangular trade
hijra
13. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
ayatollah
council of Trent
African National Congress
karma
14. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
radical
vietnamization
covenant
totalitarian state
15. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
external migration
brinkmanship
czar (tsar)
dissident
16. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
fresco
world trade center
sunni
guild
17. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
civil disobedience
astrolabe
nongovernmental organization
sunni
18. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
civil disobedience
Renaissance
conservative
19. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
Homo sapiens
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
bushi
psychoanalysis
20. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
world health organization
steppe
island-hopping
space station
21. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
dictator
glasnost
yin and yang
apprenticeship
22. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
caravel
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
pariah
psychoanalysis
23. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
Reconquest
command economy
new deal
comedy
24. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
nation-stae
dharma
luftwaffe
edict of Nantes
25. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
fourteen points
global village
DNA dating
nongovernmental organization
26. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shogun
peace crops
cynicism
shinto
27. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
caudillo
DNA dating
commercial revolution
mandate
28. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
peninsular
scientific revolution
kinship group
intifada
29. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
benefice
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
ghetto
peace crops
30. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
neolithic age
Dadaism
tribune
iconoclastic controversy
31. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
checks and balances
cubism
patriarch
sunni
32. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
Yahweh
marshall plan
great lap forward
stele
33. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
hominid
illuminated manuscript
Tarah
Truman doctrine
34. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
Bosporus Strait
qanat
joint-stock company
Shiva
35. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
bushi
natural selection
diocese
shi
36. 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
Renaissance
triple entente
Boers
theory of relativity
37. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
functionalism
comedy
aristocracy
oracle bone
38. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
Yom Kippur
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
umma
Columbian exchange
39. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
caste
lateen sail
soviet
truncated pyramid
40. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
capital
Manchaeism
mandate
city-state
41. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
plebeian
balance of power
lateen sail
Allah
42. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
tragedy
robotics
apprenticeship
space station
43. A warrior for islam
operation overlord
ghazi
philosopher
caravanserials
44. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
command economy
existentialism
final solution
world trade organization
45. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
DNA dating
scorched- earth policy
veto
iconoclastic controversy
46. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
radical
protectorate
icon
dynasty
47. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
geocentric theory
green revolution
feudalism
mameduke
48. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Kellogg-Briand Pact
plebeian
emir
monotheism
49. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
terra cotta
chivalry
caste
tribune
50. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
silk roads
purdah
messiah
Shiva