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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
diaspora
global village
estates-general
plebeian
2. An antimalarial drug
zen Buddhism
commune
Magyars
quinine
3. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
factors of production
euro
Renaissance
militarism
4. Large estate in ancient Rome
third reich
patriarchal
guest workers
latifundia
5. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
pasteurization
gulf of tonkin resolution
indulgence
6. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
paleolithic age
great lap forward
fresco
yin and yang
7. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
commercial revolution
seppuku
patriarch
functionalism
8. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
operation Barbarossa
bourgeoisie
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Deism
9. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
serf
commercial revolution
senate
pasteurization
10. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
seppuku
human cloning
ethnic cleansing
theory of relativity
11. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
new deal
reactionary
functionalism
kibbutzim
12. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
parliament
geneva conference
Mongol Peace
13. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
Manchaeism
enlightened despot
glasnost
nongovernmental organization
14. The german air force
human cloning
psychoanalysis
realpolitik
luftwaffe
15. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
extraterritorial rights
silk roads
polytheism
Inquisition
16. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
abolition
thermoluminescent dating
legitimacy
predestination
17. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
Sikhs
specialization of labor
sati
ghetto
18. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
Kellogg-Briand Pact
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
DNA dating
patrician
19. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
thermoluminescnce dating
mystery religion
ethnic cleansing
socialism
20. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
empire
diaspora
postdam conference
appeasement
21. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
sphere of influence
chlorofluorocarbons
league of nations
appeasement
22. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
Magyars
benefice
junkers
forbidden city
23. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
thermoluminescent dating
poliburo
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
cubism
24. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
jazz
tyrant
Manchaeism
civilization
25. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
diaspora
yin and yang
Justinian Code
green revolution
26. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
Palestine liberation organization
shi
ghetto
socialism
27. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
Taliban
psychoanalysis
yin and yang
legion
28. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
Sepoys
quipu
tree-ring dating
diocese
29. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
patriarchal
world trade center
communism
30. The organized elimination of an entire population group
genocide
suffrage
icon
operation overlord
31. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
collective farming
Neo- Confucianism
manga carta
liberal
32. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
burqa
Boers
radiocarbon dating
ghazi
33. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
umma
animism
repartamiento
economic imperialism
34. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
homeland
euro
commune
messiah
35. 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
feudalism
dowry death
shia
postdam conference
36. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
absolute monarch
apprenticeship
oracle bone
mystery religion
37. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
operation Barbarossa
ghazi
militarism
messiah
38. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
czar (tsar)
four noble truths
world trade organization
satellite nation
39. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
usury
detente
pariah
collective farming
40. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
jazz
council of Trent
edict of Nantes
Justinian Code
41. A member of the middle class in medieval England
polygamy
space probe
burgess
senate
42. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
iconoclastic controversy
benefice
forbidden city
homeland
43. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
one-child policy
divine right of kings
caudillo
monotheism
44. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
latifundia
new economic policy
radical
serf
45. 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
eightfold path
separation of powers
epicureanism
vietnamization
46. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
social Darwinism
reparation
enclosure movement
radical
47. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
philosopher
Protestant Reformation
karma
48. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
apartheid
city-state
quipu
Australopithecus
49. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
tyrant
icon
guild
enclosure movement
50. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
detente
monotheism
Zionism
stele