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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
world trade organization
chlorofluorocarbons
new deal
urdu
2. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
strategic defense initiative
eightfold path
new deal
tragedy
3. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
third world
serf
Neo- Confucianism
totalitarian state
4. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
moderate
urdu
Protestant Reformation
balance of power
5. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
hieroglyphics
world health organization
middle passage
Deism
6. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
caste
ghazi
constitutional monarchy
edict of Nantes
7. 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
benefice
pastoral nomadism
devshirme
economic imperialism
8. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
u-boats
dictator
qanat
mau mau
9. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
gulf of tonkin resolution
neolithic age
estates-general
Sikhs
10. The power to prevent the execution of law
anthropology
detente
veto
steppe
11. The Jewish day of atonement
world trade center
DNA dating
Yom Kippur
Balfour Declaration
12. The study of humans as a species
forbidden city
anthropology
council of Trent
checks and balances
13. Hunting and gathering
oracle bone
foraging
mobilization
dictator
14. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
oracle bone
urdu
scientific revolution
marathon
15. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
Shiva
senate
DNA dating
space shuttle
16. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
genocide
containment
operation Barbarossa
silk roads
17. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
liberal
emir
Ka'aba
island-hopping
18. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
mobilization
monotheism
militarism
truncated pyramid
19. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
monotheism
helot
African National Congress
Utopian socialist
20. The symbol used as part of a writing system
caudillo
estates-general
glyph
civil service system
21. The right of a dynasty to rule
nonalignment
legitimacy
millet
euro
22. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
umma
reparation
mercantilism
astrolabe
23. The Muslim name for God
Allah
loess
mandate
domestic system
24. The right to vote
cuneiform
suffrage
republic
comedy
25. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
theory of evolution
abolition
balance of power
colony
26. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Justinian Code
veto
samurai
colony
27. The organized elimination of an entire population group
shariah
extraterritorial rights
genocide
polytheism
28. The Muslim community of faithful
umma
tyrant
guest workers
cuneiform
29. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
thermoluminescnce dating
aristocracy
astrolabe
30. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
chlorofluorocarbons
commercial revolution
Neolithic Revolution
dharma
31. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
commune
burgher
moderate
32. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
Neolithic Revolution
Holocaust
Anabaptists
missi dominici
33. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
Balfour Declaration
mystery religion
apostle
kinship group
34. 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
iconoclastic controversy
vietnamization
polis
functionalism
35. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
realism
radiocarbon dating
missi dominici
Tamils
36. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
Allah
social contract
new economic policy
37. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
sati
city-state
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
third reich
38. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
space shuttle
burgher
estates-general
covenant
39. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
green revolution
anthropology
operation overlord
Afrikaner
40. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
Bosporus Strait
third reich
shia
shariah
41. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
detente
hellenistic culture
Deism
Bolsheviks
42. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
coalition
aristocracy
nirvana
glyph
43. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
world health organization
macadam road
Afrikaner
comedy
44. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Dar al- Islam
scorched- earth policy
Royal Road
constitutional monarchy
45. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
DNA dating
proletariat
containment
triangular trade
46. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
Anabaptists
Hagia Sophia
shia
marshall plan
47. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
predestination
guest workers
satrap
pariah
48. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
collective farming
helsinki accords
theocracy
Swahili
49. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
aristocracy
nirvana
Truman doctrine
romanticism
50. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
ghetto
chivalry
league of nations
creole