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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Royal Road
poliburo
third world
Yahweh
2. A delclaration advocating free - document signed by FDR and Churchill that expressed all of their intents in WWII - including that they sought no territorial gain - wouldn't allow a territorial change without the consent of all parties involved - an
lebnsraum
Atlantic Charter
urdu
civil service system
3. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Cultural Revolution
guomindang
Deism
apartheid
4. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
extraterritorial rights
social contract
communism
artifacts
5. The Jewish day of atonement
icon
protectorate
Yom Kippur
dictator
6. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
gospel
feminist
purdah
Bell Act
7. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
existentialism
mandate of heaven
encomienda
pasteurization
8. Hunting and gathering
Sikhs
commercial agriculture
patrician
foraging
9. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
entrepreneurship
human cloning
daimyo
DNA dating
10. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
age grade
stupa
operation Barbarossa
11. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
legion
humanism
space station
checks and balances
12. Studying fossil remains
dharma
paleontologists
Palestine liberation organization
theory of evolution
13. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
monsoon
golden mean
nationalism
hajj
14. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
fief
scorched- earth policy
third world
polygamy
15. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
British Commonwealth
apprenticeship
Cyrillic alphabet
natural selection
16. 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
parallel descent
dowry death
Warsaw pact
mameduke
17. Marriage to more than one wife
Australopithecus
satrap
triple alliance
polygamy
18. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
factors of production
mameduke
nicene creed
Swahili
19. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
commercial revolution
separation of powers
glasnost
surrealism
20. 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
Taliban
griot
vietnamization
chlorofluorocarbons
21. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
oracle bone
Protestant Reformation
kowtow
soviet
22. Large collective farm
commune
four noble truths
Balkans
entrepreneurship
23. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
middle passage
forbidden city
Nuremberg trials
colony
24. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
Columbian exchange
republic
age grade
people of the book
25. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
Allah
divine right of kings
great lap forward
mobilization
26. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
third reich
guild
proletariat
league of nations
27. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
peace crops
Shiva
parliament
Reconquest
28. An organization of European countries to promote free trade among its members
European Union
geocentric theory
utilitarian
Royal Road
29. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
separation of powers
treaty of tordesillas
mestizo
nonalignment
30. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
sati
Dar al- Islam
shinto
mameduke
31. 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
tribune
guomindang
hellenistic culture
parallel descent
32. A member of the middle class in medieval England
mobilization
third reich
burgess
Brahmin
33. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
commune
stoicism
silk roads
dharma
34. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
society of Jesus
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
enlightenment
sakk
35. A national legislature assembly
ghetto
enclosure movement
parliament
chlorofluorocarbons
36. 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
stateless society
creole
intifada
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
37. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
kinship group
monsoon
caravel
push-pull factors
38. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
multinational corporation
liberal
five-year plans
fief
39. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
edict of Nantes
manor
five pillars
enlightened despot
40. The belief in one god
perestroika
operation sea lion
quipu
monotheism
41. One who disagrees; a dissenter
dissident
dowry death
justification by faith
missi dominici
42. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
plebeian
thermoluminescnce dating
pogram
dharma
43. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
Balkans
Neolithic Revolution
chivalry
44. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
pogram
intifada
civil rights movement
yin and yang
45. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
rotten borough
fresco
anthropology
chlorofluorocarbons
46. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
triple alliance
comedy
marshall plan
serf
47. A German emperor
kaiser
push-pull factors
pariah
code of Hammurabi
48. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
czar (tsar)
satellite nation
silk roads
civil service system
49. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
Columbian exchange
realism
burqa
joint-stock company
50. A Muslim ruler
helsinki accords
emir
steppe
functionalism