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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
sphere of influence
time of troubles
Neolithic Revolution
liberal
2. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
nation-stae
Tamils
shogun
Sepoys
3. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
shariah
shi
tyrant
Tarah
4. Involves obtaining samples of the genetic material of DNA from living donors and comparing it with the DNA from other persons or from animals computers and then are used to determine the rate of change in the DNA
tree-ring dating
nation-stae
justification by faith
DNA dating
5. A greak city-state
latifundia
realism
stoicism
polis
6. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
mandate
edict of Nantes
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
jazz
7. A grant of land in medieval Europe
fief
Inquisition
strategic defense initiative
Afrikaner
8. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
liberal
cubism
fief
umma
9. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
gospel
guest workers
edict of Nantes
tree-ring dating
10. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
qanat
Manhattan project
Bolsheviks
chinampa
11. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
Cyrillic alphabet
Boers
karma
armistice
12. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
satellite nation
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
space probe
mobilization
13. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
lebnsraum
polygamy
diaspora
patriarchal
14. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
romanticism
foraging
Bolsheviks
society of Jesus
15. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
czar (tsar)
sphere of influence
human cloning
cubism
16. A member of the middle class in medieval England
Atlantic Charter
burgess
factors of production
mandate of heaven
17. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
British Commonwealth
operation Barbarossa
Utopian socialist
18. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
Tarah
nongovernmental organization
enlightenment
latifundia
19. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
proletariat
Zionism
four noble truths
paleolithic age
20. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
feminist
Boers
foraging
apartheid
21. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
DNA dating
Balkans
sunni
society of Jesus
22. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
absolute monarch
samurai
radiocarbon dating
Balfour Declaration
23. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
stoicism
code of Hammurabi
archaeology
aristocracy
24. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Huns
eightfold path
liberal
commercial agriculture
25. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
Boers
Lend- Lease Act
strategic defense initiative
czar (tsar)
26. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
strategic defense initiative
African National Congress
moderate
stoicism
27. The five duties required of all Muslims: faith -prayer -alms -fasting during Ramadan - and the hajj
manga carta
five pillars
Bosporus Strait
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
28. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
council of Trent
feminist
umma
utilitarian
29. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
absolute monarch
Cyrillic alphabet
predestination
30. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
kowtow
theory of evolution
edict of Nantes
democratization
31. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
nongovernmental organization
dissident
civil service system
32. Objects shaped by humans
Manhattan project
parallel descent
marshall plan
artifacts
33. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
nationalism
archeology
sati
seppuku
34. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
fief
desalinization
geocentric theory
Holocaust
35. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
nation-stae
Deism
encomienda
mensheviks
36. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
shia
tyrant
Yalta Conference
Nuremberg trials
37. An object shaped by humans
artifact
appeasement
apartheid
world health organization
38. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
luftwaffe
fief
geocentric theory
stoicism
39. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
great lap forward
Manchaeism
rotten borough
paleontologists
40. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
dissident
commercial agriculture
guomindang
karma
41. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
griot
parliament
Renaissance
Tarah
42. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
new economic policy
armistice
Mongol Peace
sunni
43. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
stateless society
Yahweh
mestizo
Yalta Conference
44. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
papal states
dynasty
poliburo
paleolithic age
45. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
impressionism
reactionary
gulf of tonkin resolution
Manhattan project
46. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
absolute monarch
marathon
realism
fourteen points
47. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
Utopian socialist
Australopithecus
helot
apprenticeship
48. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
world trade center
entrepreneurship
purdah
third world
49. One who disagrees; a dissenter
nonalignment
dissident
theory of evolution
Dar al- Islam
50. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
realpolitik
duma
major domo
Balfour Declaration