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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
shariah
European Union
Bell Act
thermoluminescent dating
2. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
nongovernmental organization
Reconquest
yin and yang
guomindang
3. The Muslim community of faithful
gulf of tonkin resolution
nation-stae
trench warfare
umma
4. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
civil service system
satellite nation
operation Barbarossa
parallel descent
5. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
burgess
chivalry
entrepreneurship
mandate of heaven
6. A humanlike creature that walks upright
Truman doctrine
hominid
detente
collective bargaining
7. 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
thermoluminescent dating
Manhattan project
fourteen points
detente
8. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
diocese
Swahili
absolute monarch
checks and balances
9. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
griot
guest workers
anthropology
Magyars
10. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
space probe
mameduke
radiocarbon dating
sphere of influence
11. Marriage to more than one wife
mandate
daimyo
DNA dating
polygamy
12. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
radiocarbon dating
samurai
Protestant Reformation
Bosporus Strait
13. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
stem cell research
world trade center
soviet
four modernizations
14. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
four tigers
edict of Nantes
society of Jesus
space station
15. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
operation sea lion
papal states
serf
propaganda
16. A government of three rulers
hijra
hieroglyphics
triumvirate
four modernizations
17. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
tragedy
Sepoys
balance of power
18. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
guomindang
geneva conference
Cultural Revolution
Zionism
19. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
justification by faith
major domo
quinine
estate
20. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
scorched- earth policy
Balfour Declaration
radical
astrolabe
21. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
specialization of labor
estates-general
daimyo
operation sea lion
22. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
edict of Nantes
Afrikaner
theory of relativity
Yom Kippur
23. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
republic
DNA dating
archaeology
nonalignment
24. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
factors of production
nongovernmental organization
golden mean
peninsular
25. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
Magyars
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
concession
intifada
26. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
Tarah
triple alliance
balance of power
five pillars
27. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
tribune
guomindang
neolithic age
dictator
28. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
monotheism
third world
theory of relativity
desalinization
29. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
four noble truths
nicene creed
apostle
caravanserials
30. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
glasnost
burgess
dynasty
four tigers
31. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
time of troubles
parallel descent
harem
vassal
32. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
Kellogg-Briand Pact
external migration
propaganda
mensheviks
33. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
Zionism
theocracy
Lend- Lease Act
new economic policy
34. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
apprenticeship
mobilization
green revolution
griot
35. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
commercial agriculture
kamikaze
mystery religion
lebnsraum
36. A policy passed by the US congress in 1941 to allow President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the USA
Lend- Lease Act
seppuku
dissident
apprenticeship
37. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
Dar al- Islam
ayatollah
separation of powers
u-boats
38. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
capital
patriarch
illuminated manuscript
purdah
39. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
romanticism
sati
moderate
anthropology
40. 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
artifact
treaty of tordesillas
bourgeoisie
stele
41. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
blitzkrieg
fresco
perestroika
Royal Road
42. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
Utopian socialist
parallel descent
sakk
apprenticeship
43. 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
armistice
quipu
social contract
nonalignment
44. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
dynasty
ayatollah
kamikaze
civil disobedience
45. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
stoicism
republic
hubris
46. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
collective farming
laissez-faire
four tigers
Swahili
47. A 26 mile race
pogram
marathon
patriarchal
society of Jesus
48. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
enclosure movement
civil rights movement
treaty of Versailles
league of nations
49. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
Brahmin
artifact
Boers
Cyrillic alphabet
50. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
monsoon
millet
Bell Act
eightfold path