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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. Studying fossil remains
senate
chlorofluorocarbons
African National Congress
paleontologists
2. 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
final solution
dowry death
DNA dating
stem cell research
3. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
euro
pastoral nomadism
extraterritorial rights
lateen sail
4. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
McDonaldization
natural selection
colony
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
5. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
Shiva
Tarah
totalitarian state
constitutional monarchy
6. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
veto
radiocarbon dating
hajj
glasnost
7. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
lebnsraum
jainissary
missi dominici
social contract
8. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
Dadaism
external migration
Taliban
marathon
9. The technology associated with the application of robots
monsoon
Anabaptists
robotics
diocese
10. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
animism
protectorate
pasteurization
kowtow
11. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
golden mean
Deism
ayatollah
estate
12. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
four tigers
Protestant Reformation
truncated pyramid
Zionism
13. A greak city-state
caste
polis
world health organization
terra cotta
14. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
people of the book
hijra
Renaissance
postdam conference
15. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
pariah
dynasty
world health organization
consul
16. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
vietnamization
diocese
Neolithic Revolution
separation of powers
17. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
Afrikaner
soviet
guild
world trade organization
18. A sole ruler with absolute power
dictator
humanism
jazz
commercial revolution
19. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
treaty of tordesillas
space probe
kibbutzim
usury
20. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
Zionism
theory of relativity
Dadaism
containment
21. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
radical
space station
nation-stae
glasnost
22. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
Bolsheviks
caudillo
hominid
DNA dating
23. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
legion
utilitarian
desalinization
mandate
24. Objects shaped by humans
Neo- Confucianism
artifacts
zen Buddhism
geocentric theory
25. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
space station
liberal
time of troubles
oracle bone
26. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
hijra
robotics
guomindang
mestizo
27. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
Zionism
factors of production
justification by faith
u-boats
28. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
proletariat
human cloning
junkers
29. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
pastoral nomadism
Sepoys
covenant
emir
30. One who disagrees; a dissenter
coalition
dissident
pogram
Yom Kippur
31. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
Balfour Declaration
domestic system
major domo
age grade
32. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
bushi
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
mandate
socialism
33. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
realpolitik
mercantilism
silk roads
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
34. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
estates-general
satrap
four tigers
apprenticeship
35. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
junkers
push-pull factors
parallel descent
emir
36. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
anthropology
veto
McDonaldization
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
37. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
Balkans
Sepoys
treaty of Versailles
patrician
38. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
triple alliance
totalitarian state
Reconquest
civilization
39. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
collective farming
legitimacy
major domo
Warsaw pact
40. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
repartamiento
Balkans
extraterritorial rights
illuminated manuscript
41. The dissemination of materials or messages to promote one's own cause or diminish the cause of an adversary
golden mean
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
tree-ring dating
propaganda
42. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
nationalism
foraging
kinship group
social Darwinism
43. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
civil rights movement
desalinization
Huns
radiocarbon dating
44. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
mandate of heaven
Homo sapiens
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
romanticism
45. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
kinship group
Inquisition
realism
social contract
46. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
DNA dating
chlorofluorocarbons
Anabaptists
feudalism
47. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
Brahmin
czar (tsar)
loess
Bell Act
48. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
reactionary
fresco
detente
devshirme
49. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
macadam road
collective bargaining
triumvirate
eightfold path
50. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
yin and yang
hubris
stupa
protectorate