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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
dynasty
Sikhs
intifada
commercial agriculture
2. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
nonalignment
steppe
Sepoys
ziggurat
3. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
triangular trade
feminist
theory of relativity
mobilization
4. A ceasefire agreement
caravel
pasteurization
one-child policy
armistice
5. Member of elite class in ancient rome
patrician
world trade organization
island-hopping
burgher
6. A political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism and loyalty to the sate and features one-party rule by an authoritarian ruler
blitzkrieg
fascism
senate
cuneiform
7. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
apprenticeship
pariah
anthropology
Sikhs
8. Large collective farm
commune
archeology
five-year plans
u-boats
9. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
Shiva
terra cotta
mestizo
Royal Road
10. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
kibbutzim
joint-stock company
separation of powers
final solution
11. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
civil disobedience
consumerism
Catholic reformation
satellite nation
12. Studying fossil remains
archaeology
enlightenment
command economy
paleontologists
13. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
new economic policy
scientific revolution
burgher
Dadaism
14. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
bushido
Boers
mestizo
duma
15. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
triple entente
Allah
jainissary
Manhattan project
16. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
Cultural Revolution
u-boats
nirvana
consumerism
17. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
estates-general
entrepreneurship
economic imperialism
gulf of tonkin resolution
18. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
intifada
daimyo
Manhattan project
rotten borough
19. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
stoicism
hajj
griot
Tarah
20. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
one-child policy
macadam road
neolithic age
usury
21. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
command economy
parallel descent
appeasement
Yahweh
22. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
Nuremberg trials
people of the book
constitutional monarchy
theory of evolution
23. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
triple alliance
space station
junkers
24. Agreement between the united states and the Philippines that granted the Filipinos war damages in exchange for the establishment of free trade between the Philippines and the United States
Bell Act
Bolsheviks
romanticism
bushi
25. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
triple alliance
four noble truths
neolithic age
Neo- Confucianism
26. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
Huns
imperialism
existentialism
chinampa
27. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
British Commonwealth
hellenistic culture
hijra
four noble truths
28. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
nirvana
shi
purdah
gospel
29. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
democratization
Dar al- Islam
archeology
Yalta Conference
30. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
monotheism
apprenticeship
samurai
jazz
31. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
Taliban
forbidden city
benefice
four noble truths
32. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
five pillars
hubris
reactionary
Tarah
33. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
Homo sapiens
czar (tsar)
serf
surrealism
34. The Muslim name for God
blitzkrieg
nongovernmental organization
rotten borough
Allah
35. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
balance of power
thermoluminescnce dating
hieroglyphics
theocracy
36. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
impressionism
conservative
new deal
Atlantic Charter
37. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
kibbutzim
jazz
major domo
38. 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
guest workers
third world
vietnamization
mau mau
39. A national legislature assembly
Nuremberg trials
parliament
hajj
thermoluminescent dating
40. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
dictator
shogun
reparation
papal states
41. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
world trade organization
major domo
Manhattan project
mercantilism
42. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
missi dominici
theocracy
shi
operation overlord
43. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
dowry death
command economy
British Commonwealth
cynicism
44. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
extraterritorial rights
Balfour Declaration
Huns
justification by faith
45. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
hubris
triumvirate
thermoluminescent dating
guest workers
46. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
robotics
Huguenots
epicureanism
ziggurat
47. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
moderate
perestroika
postdam conference
existentialism
48. The Jewish day of atonement
dynasty
Yom Kippur
duma
operation sea lion
49. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
Tamils
containment
genocide
totalitarian state
50. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
satellite nation
shah
commercial revolution
karma