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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
enclosure movement
dynasty
purdah
social contract
2. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
imperialism
Manchaeism
Tarah
chlorofluorocarbons
3. 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
mandate of heaven
socialism
creole
checks and balances
4. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
anthropology
one-child policy
guild
burqa
5. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
Brahmin
oracle bone
millet
realpolitik
6. 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
collective bargaining
Cultural Revolution
Balfour Declaration
kamikaze
7. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
green revolution
civil disobedience
Nuremberg trials
people of the book
8. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
mameduke
capital
world health organization
neolithic age
9. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
shi
collective farming
world trade organization
10. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
Neo- Confucianism
philosopher
qanat
Kellogg-Briand Pact
11. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
apostle
Columbian exchange
trench warfare
tree-ring dating
12. The five duties required of all Muslims: faith -prayer -alms -fasting during Ramadan - and the hajj
monsoon
astrolabe
desalinization
five pillars
13. A series of examinations given to determine qualifications for government- related jobs
fourteen points
moderate
civil service system
dynasty
14. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
missi dominici
archeology
scientific revolution
DNA dating
15. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
civil service system
concession
enclosure movement
divine right of kings
16. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
manor
radiocarbon dating
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Deism
17. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
treaty of Versailles
samurai
chivalry
glasnost
18. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
Brahmin
poliburo
Manchaeism
people of the book
19. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
commercial revolution
time of troubles
Bolsheviks
dictator
20. 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
people of the book
factors of production
dictator
theory of relativity
21. A German emperor
gulf of tonkin resolution
suffrage
feudalism
kaiser
22. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
shi
griot
joint-stock company
hijra
23. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
czar (tsar)
Anabaptists
proletariat
euro
24. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
Zionism
balance of power
scientific revolution
existentialism
25. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
utilitarian
mercantilism
urdu
26. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
internal migration
kibbutzim
golden mean
strategic defense initiative
27. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
bushi
euro
code of Hammurabi
missi dominici
28. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
encomienda
zen Buddhism
burgher
29. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
satrap
triple alliance
nirvana
constitutional monarchy
30. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
green revolution
commercial revolution
realpolitik
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
31. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
Bell Act
factors of production
yin and yang
vassal
32. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
artifacts
space shuttle
natural selection
proletariat
33. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
epicureanism
consumerism
triple entente
stem cell research
34. An antimalarial drug
third world
British Commonwealth
quinine
thermoluminescent dating
35. A greak city-state
messiah
polis
society of Jesus
concession
36. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
human cloning
detente
millet
civil service system
37. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
Ka'aba
apprenticeship
internal migration
economic imperialism
38. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
Utopian socialist
moderate
civil rights movement
third reich
39. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
seppuku
collective farming
thermoluminescent dating
duma
40. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
stele
caste
ziggurat
impressionism
41. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
diocese
pogram
junkers
social Darwinism
42. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
league of nations
absolute monarch
diaspora
kaiser
43. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
imperialism
Catholic reformation
shi
vassal
44. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
patriarch
ghazi
estate
shariah
45. The Muslim name for God
diaspora
ziggurat
mau mau
Allah
46. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
helot
consul
Holocaust
protectorate
47. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Anabaptists
Hagia Sophia
civil rights movement
Reconquest
48. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
new economic policy
treaty of tordesillas
soviet
caravel
49. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
burqa
animism
silk roads
50. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
neolithic age
laissez-faire
Dar al- Islam
realpolitik