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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An advocate of gradual political change
conservative
Balfour Declaration
nonalignment
purdah
2. 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
oracle bone
hijra
ayatollah
devshirme
3. A grant of land in medieval Europe
foraging
fief
gospel
new economic policy
4. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
containment
world health organization
society of Jesus
pastoral nomadism
5. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
truncated pyramid
dharma
Sikhs
laissez-faire
6. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
triangular trade
middle passage
eightfold path
Cyrillic alphabet
7. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
Yalta Conference
stoicism
benefice
sati
8. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
apostle
Taliban
epicureanism
Holocaust
9. A sole ruler with absolute power
Manchaeism
dictator
mameduke
Nuremberg trials
10. Marriage to more than one wife
foraging
polygamy
Kellogg-Briand Pact
fascism
11. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
monotheism
edict of Nantes
archaeology
imperialism
12. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
absolute monarch
guild
five pillars
icon
13. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
people of the book
armistice
feudalism
14. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
Utopian socialist
McDonaldization
golden mean
separation of powers
15. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
reactionary
pasteurization
sphere of influence
gospel
16. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
qanat
league of nations
cubism
truncated pyramid
17. The german air force
nongovernmental organization
command economy
luftwaffe
mobilization
18. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
encomienda
qanat
vassal
devshirme
19. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
rotten borough
hajj
people of the book
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
20. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
chivalry
liberal
polis
karma
21. The symbol used as part of a writing system
senate
geocentric theory
civil rights movement
glyph
22. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
psychoanalysis
balance of power
latifundia
Boers
23. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
samurai
global village
natural selection
trench warfare
24. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
sakk
pasteurization
reactionary
Truman doctrine
25. A German emperor
shia
kaiser
icon
Nuremberg trials
26. 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
archeology
hubris
natural selection
fourteen points
27. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
kibbutzim
kamikaze
plebeian
four tigers
28. The study of humans as a species
czar (tsar)
pasteurization
anthropology
world trade center
29. The belief in one god
code of Hammurabi
lebnsraum
scorched- earth policy
monotheism
30. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
consul
functionalism
nationalism
chlorofluorocarbons
31. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
nicene creed
patrician
griot
helsinki accords
32. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
new economic policy
proletariat
geneva conference
radiocarbon dating
33. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
estate
lebnsraum
enlightenment
desalinization
34. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
scorched- earth policy
detente
mameduke
Sepoys
35. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
Dar al- Islam
glasnost
mestizo
polytheism
36. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
surrealism
hieroglyphics
space shuttle
code of Hammurabi
37. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
Homo sapiens
shah
four noble truths
trench warfare
38. Member of elite class in ancient rome
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
estates-general
Bosporus Strait
patrician
39. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
socialism
shariah
desalinization
cynicism
40. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
stem cell research
green revolution
icon
shogun
41. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
burqa
Bosporus Strait
satellite nation
strategic defense initiative
42. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
helot
astrolabe
coalition
stele
43. The Muslim community of faithful
new economic policy
containment
African National Congress
umma
44. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
monotheism
feudalism
African National Congress
coalition
45. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
daimyo
Manhattan project
strategic defense initiative
constitutional monarchy
46. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
caste
mau mau
democratization
Boers
47. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
world trade center
detente
Bosporus Strait
jazz
48. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
treaty of Versailles
Balkans
iconoclastic controversy
four noble truths
49. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
natural selection
covenant
steppe
imperialism
50. 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
cubism
Cultural Revolution
space probe
commercial agriculture