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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 killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
chivalry
dowry death
space probe
quinine
2. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
comedy
stream of consciousness
middle passage
Cyrillic alphabet
3. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
icon
specialization of labor
global village
McDonaldization
4. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
radiocarbon dating
DNA dating
vietnamization
mestizo
5. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
mandate
covenant
capital
humanism
6. 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
Bosporus Strait
truncated pyramid
psychoanalysis
7. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
socialism
collective farming
theocracy
new deal
8. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
five-year plans
glasnost
truncated pyramid
seppuku
9. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
Warsaw pact
Hagia Sophia
parliament
10. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Taliban
shia
marshall plan
11. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
stele
aristocracy
latifundia
zen Buddhism
12. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
seppuku
mandate
four modernizations
predestination
13. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
social Darwinism
u-boats
Swahili
chivalry
14. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
gospel
suffrage
guomindang
third world
15. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
armistice
seppuku
glasnost
proletariat
16. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
repartamiento
indulgence
collective bargaining
consul
17. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
constitutional monarchy
civilization
nation-stae
realism
18. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
collective bargaining
Balkans
world health organization
jazz
19. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
loess
nicene creed
caste
intifada
20. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
consumerism
marathon
legion
Utopian socialist
21. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
great lap forward
Homo sapiens
legitimacy
moderate
22. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
Holocaust
triple entente
caste
thermoluminescent dating
23. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
theory of relativity
edict of Nantes
Justinian Code
silk roads
24. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
Dar al- Islam
seppuku
Yahweh
iconoclastic controversy
25. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
factors of production
bushido
enlightenment
civil rights movement
26. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
surrealism
Dadaism
Sikhs
stupa
27. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
apartheid
DNA dating
space station
enlightened despot
28. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
propaganda
proletariat
hajj
extraterritorial rights
29. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
parallel descent
social Darwinism
commercial revolution
bushido
30. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
guest workers
monotheism
cynicism
Huns
31. The organized elimination of an entire population group
fief
civil service system
absolute monarch
genocide
32. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
Mongol Peace
scientific revolution
quinine
consul
33. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
gulf of tonkin resolution
people of the book
harem
trench warfare
34. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
apprenticeship
soviet
emir
karma
35. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
luftwaffe
urdu
shinto
Neolithic Revolution
36. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
caravel
apprenticeship
great lap forward
silk roads
37. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
space station
millet
covenant
one-child policy
38. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
feminist
island-hopping
psychoanalysis
impressionism
39. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
apartheid
Allah
feminist
40. Russian emperor
czar (tsar)
lateen sail
socialism
collective farming
41. 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
caudillo
stream of consciousness
monotheism
Cultural Revolution
42. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
kowtow
cuneiform
sunni
entrepreneurship
43. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
genocide
tragedy
one-child policy
sati
44. The five duties required of all Muslims: faith -prayer -alms -fasting during Ramadan - and the hajj
parallel descent
five pillars
Sepoys
lebnsraum
45. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
nongovernmental organization
totalitarian state
stem cell research
trench warfare
46. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
truncated pyramid
one-child policy
socialism
repartamiento
47. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
cubism
kaiser
quinine
people of the book
48. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
Inquisition
consul
third reich
Holocaust
49. 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
nonalignment
Magyars
burqa
five-year plans
50. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
dictator
scorched- earth policy
consumerism
Bell Act