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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Muslim social and ethical law
eightfold path
checks and balances
shariah
Reconquest
2. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
impressionism
Homo sapiens
proletariat
capital
3. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
strategic defense initiative
apartheid
Shiva
nongovernmental organization
4. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
jainissary
tree-ring dating
Bell Act
Magyars
5. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
guest workers
lebnsraum
great lap forward
mandate of heaven
6. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
enclosure movement
loess
jazz
ayatollah
7. 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
yin and yang
socialism
luftwaffe
checks and balances
8. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
mameduke
steppe
world trade center
lebnsraum
9. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
hajj
moderate
burqa
kamikaze
10. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
strategic defense initiative
Homo sapiens
artifact
repartamiento
11. A Persian king
shah
Cyrillic alphabet
new deal
gospel
12. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
tribune
latifundia
militarism
social Darwinism
13. A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and 18th centuries stating that human beings were basically good and could be further improved through education - and upholding reason as the key to truth
enlightenment
polis
pasteurization
polytheism
14. Involves obtaining samples of the genetic material of DNA from living donors and comparing it with the DNA from other persons or from animals computers and then are used to determine the rate of change in the DNA
world trade organization
DNA dating
icon
vietnamization
15. An organization of European countries to promote free trade among its members
devshirme
European Union
benefice
social contract
16. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Protestant Reformation
protectorate
Lend- Lease Act
satellite nation
17. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
peninsular
jainissary
militarism
caravanserials
18. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
colony
patriarchal
manor
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
19. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
paleontologists
reparation
quinine
dharma
20. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
satellite nation
Bell Act
polis
thermoluminescnce dating
21. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
Neo- Confucianism
domino theory
encomienda
kibbutzim
22. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
pastoral nomadism
great lap forward
neolithic age
hominid
23. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
polis
proletariat
ghetto
specialization of labor
24. 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
Hagia Sophia
blitzkrieg
burgess
Yalta Conference
25. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
anthropology
archeology
cubism
joint-stock company
26. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
African National Congress
time of troubles
icon
messiah
27. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
triple entente
age grade
scientific revolution
patriarchal
28. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
enlightenment
hominid
covenant
yin and yang
29. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
brinkmanship
Palestine liberation organization
civil rights movement
edict of Nantes
30. The right to vote
satrap
Dar al- Islam
Holocaust
suffrage
31. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
junkers
Deism
helsinki accords
emir
32. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
scorched- earth policy
Ka'aba
gulf of tonkin resolution
Manchaeism
33. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
DNA dating
lateen sail
social contract
propaganda
34. The right of a dynasty to rule
burqa
pogram
legitimacy
final solution
35. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
silk roads
perestroika
usury
stream of consciousness
36. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
hellenistic culture
code of Hammurabi
realpolitik
totalitarian state
37. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
shariah
Bolsheviks
euro
predestination
38. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
radiocarbon dating
indulgence
existentialism
utilitarian
39. A ceasefire agreement
armistice
caravanserials
ghazi
civilization
40. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
yin and yang
guest workers
kamikaze
sati
41. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
Allah
Huguenots
daimyo
radiocarbon dating
42. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
geneva conference
griot
glasnost
serf
43. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
comedy
pogram
ethnic cleansing
Magyars
44. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
triple alliance
illuminated manuscript
senate
Brahmin
45. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
Allah
Inquisition
u-boats
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
46. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
brinkmanship
space shuttle
repartamiento
colony
47. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
encomienda
capitalism
treaty of Versailles
monsoon
48. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
feminist
absolute monarch
liberal
triumvirate
49. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
edict of Nantes
divine right of kings
Catholic reformation
moderate
50. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
helot
stateless society
detente
people of the book