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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
Royal Road
code of Hammurabi
human cloning
humanism
2. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
edict of Nantes
polis
yin and yang
kibbutzim
3. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
nicene creed
treaty of tordesillas
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
shah
4. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
utilitarian
Anabaptists
eightfold path
great lap forward
5. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
Lend- Lease Act
socialism
imperialism
dictator
6. Large collective farm
golden mean
commune
command economy
mau mau
7. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
green revolution
kowtow
island-hopping
predestination
8. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
shi
lebnsraum
ziggurat
monotheism
9. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
five-year plans
robotics
peace crops
reactionary
10. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
serf
DNA dating
one-child policy
veto
11. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
dharma
missi dominici
Tamils
mestizo
12. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
economic imperialism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
forbidden city
multinational corporation
13. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
blitzkrieg
middle passage
junkers
luftwaffe
14. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
hieroglyphics
functionalism
Huguenots
radiocarbon dating
15. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
space shuttle
blitzkrieg
patrician
code of Hammurabi
16. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
stele
domino theory
plebeian
sati
17. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
human cloning
colony
plebeian
extraterritorial rights
18. A national legislature assembly
caravanserials
iconoclastic controversy
parliament
duma
19. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
separation of powers
theocracy
missi dominici
bourgeoisie
20. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
absolute monarch
Huguenots
encomienda
umma
21. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
iconoclastic controversy
junkers
Taliban
commune
22. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
Palestine liberation organization
vietnamization
poliburo
forbidden city
23. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
operation overlord
time of troubles
mestizo
abolition
24. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
Holocaust
democratization
reparation
dynasty
25. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
middle passage
manor
Dar al- Islam
realism
26. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
civilization
space shuttle
Balfour Declaration
capitalism
27. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
Holocaust
hijra
devshirme
humanism
28. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
monsoon
anthropology
estates-general
vassal
29. A grant of land in medieval Europe
Holocaust
fief
burgher
Catholic reformation
30. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
missi dominici
marathon
utilitarian
kamikaze
31. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
factors of production
pasteurization
DNA dating
Manchaeism
32. French Protestants
Huguenots
postdam conference
Deism
Lend- Lease Act
33. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
Truman doctrine
enlightenment
paleolithic age
totalitarian state
34. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
Renaissance
gospel
golden mean
shogun
35. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
helot
estates-general
Brahmin
Nuremberg trials
36. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
time of troubles
reparation
daimyo
kinship group
37. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
hajj
scorched- earth policy
tragedy
Protestant Reformation
38. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
extraterritorial rights
apprenticeship
caravanserials
abolition
39. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
commercial agriculture
archeology
40. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
separation of powers
thermoluminescnce dating
civil disobedience
anthropology
41. 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
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
five-year plans
estate
enlightenment
42. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
golden mean
consumerism
polytheism
geocentric theory
43. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
duma
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
capitalism
justification by faith
44. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
qanat
mercantilism
enlightened despot
umma
45. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
detente
guomindang
stele
illuminated manuscript
46. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
vassal
suffrage
polygamy
hubris
47. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
protectorate
space probe
Magyars
golden mean
48. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
Allah
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
pastoral nomadism
psychoanalysis
49. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
manga carta
guomindang
triangular trade
desalinization
50. A government of three rulers
senate
fresco
guest workers
triumvirate