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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
colony
monsoon
trench warfare
abolition
2. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
theory of evolution
Taliban
time of troubles
3. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
macadam road
stupa
senate
Protestant Reformation
4. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
global village
lateen sail
macadam road
DNA dating
5. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
tribune
messiah
kamikaze
constitutional monarchy
6. A Persian king
shah
soviet
external migration
steppe
7. According to Darwin;s theory of evolution - process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest
Neo- Confucianism
militarism
natural selection
Zionism
8. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
Cultural Revolution
patriarch
fourteen points
cynicism
9. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
luftwaffe
moderate
civil service system
patriarch
10. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
plebeian
caudillo
realism
DNA dating
11. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
Warsaw pact
British Commonwealth
Palestine liberation organization
rotten borough
12. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
Protestant Reformation
mau mau
impressionism
daimyo
13. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
postdam conference
quipu
mystery religion
Neo- Confucianism
14. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
stream of consciousness
tragedy
Taliban
manor
15. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
sati
marshall plan
proletariat
legion
16. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
operation overlord
tree-ring dating
shogun
separation of powers
17. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
collective farming
DNA dating
estates-general
extraterritorial rights
18. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
patriarch
apartheid
purdah
aristocracy
19. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
five-year plans
domestic system
burqa
mystery religion
20. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
mandate of heaven
balance of power
mystery religion
mobilization
21. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
council of Trent
Nuremberg trials
quinine
apartheid
22. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
theocracy
nirvana
Balfour Declaration
artifacts
23. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
qanat
caravanserials
scorched- earth policy
24. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
bushido
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
council of Trent
great lap forward
25. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
five-year plans
age grade
daimyo
harem
26. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
jazz
operation overlord
yin and yang
paleolithic age
27. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
burgess
caravel
homeland
Columbian exchange
28. 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
benefice
vietnamization
satellite nation
armistice
29. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
domestic system
nationalism
Sepoys
functionalism
30. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
ghazi
junkers
kamikaze
mystery religion
31. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
Ka'aba
society of Jesus
comedy
mobilization
32. Marriage to more than one wife
laissez-faire
estate
satrap
polygamy
33. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
civil disobedience
benefice
silk roads
Anabaptists
34. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
enlightened despot
mobilization
dharma
35. A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and 18th centuries stating that human beings were basically good and could be further improved through education - and upholding reason as the key to truth
theory of relativity
Zionism
enlightenment
shia
36. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
terra cotta
sakk
scorched- earth policy
paleolithic age
37. Member of elite class in ancient rome
four modernizations
patrician
totalitarian state
extraterritorial rights
38. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
trench warfare
cubism
caste
estate
39. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Nuremberg trials
Utopian socialist
Justinian Code
edict of Nantes
40. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
mameduke
major domo
burgher
forbidden city
41. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
polygamy
third world
jazz
icon
42. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
Bolsheviks
final solution
bourgeoisie
psychoanalysis
43. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
animism
socialism
Taliban
44. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
chinampa
neolithic age
functionalism
four noble truths
45. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
desalinization
poliburo
luftwaffe
46. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
manor
romanticism
harem
eightfold path
47. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
stream of consciousness
Australopithecus
thermoluminescent dating
middle passage
48. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
satrap
thermoluminescnce dating
indulgence
lateen sail
49. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
jainissary
militarism
nonalignment
republic
50. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
command economy
mensheviks
stateless society
justification by faith