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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
jazz
commune
sphere of influence
ethnic cleansing
2. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
external migration
five-year plans
Ka'aba
one-child policy
3. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
homeland
green revolution
Balfour Declaration
truncated pyramid
4. Member of elite class in ancient rome
new economic policy
patrician
apartheid
devshirme
5. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
geneva conference
hieroglyphics
British Commonwealth
abolition
6. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
shi
justification by faith
apprenticeship
Mongol Peace
7. The Muslim community of faithful
civil service system
Justinian Code
Cultural Revolution
umma
8. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
domestic system
domino theory
chinampa
push-pull factors
9. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
hieroglyphics
patrician
devshirme
commercial agriculture
10. The right to vote
socialism
suffrage
absolute monarch
veto
11. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
shah
third reich
enclosure movement
pasteurization
12. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
appeasement
manga carta
shariah
mensheviks
13. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
domino theory
junkers
desalinization
dynasty
14. Objects shaped by humans
triple entente
iconoclastic controversy
artifacts
factors of production
15. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
nirvana
hieroglyphics
four modernizations
predestination
16. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
patriarch
containment
radiocarbon dating
Balkans
17. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
age grade
polis
Huns
enlightened despot
18. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
pariah
ayatollah
theory of evolution
third world
19. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
anthropology
Dar al- Islam
kinship group
blitzkrieg
20. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
lateen sail
propaganda
island-hopping
21. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
loess
trench warfare
communism
operation sea lion
22. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
global village
marshall plan
stele
plebeian
23. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
chinampa
estates-general
containment
radiocarbon dating
24. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
artifact
estate
urdu
proletariat
25. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
world trade organization
colony
bushi
city-state
26. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
Yalta Conference
specialization of labor
latifundia
liberal
27. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
Manhattan project
Warsaw pact
genocide
absolute monarch
28. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
caudillo
space station
stem cell research
joint-stock company
29. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
ghetto
polygamy
space station
pogram
30. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
Huns
homeland
humanism
commercial revolution
31. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
separation of powers
Renaissance
armistice
thermoluminescnce dating
32. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
shogun
covenant
ziggurat
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
33. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
messiah
caravel
collective bargaining
collective farming
34. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
sati
space station
scientific revolution
rotten borough
35. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
sunni
stream of consciousness
pariah
36. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
cuneiform
multinational corporation
strategic defense initiative
parliament
37. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
theory of relativity
Allah
third reich
Protestant Reformation
38. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
shariah
archaeology
forbidden city
society of Jesus
39. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
apostle
blitzkrieg
four noble truths
trench warfare
40. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
nirvana
intifada
karma
archeology
41. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
collective bargaining
stateless society
Huns
communism
42. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
colony
human cloning
triangular trade
stream of consciousness
43. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
quipu
manga carta
Ka'aba
African National Congress
44. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
Palestine liberation organization
estate
mau mau
oracle bone
45. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
oracle bone
polytheism
comedy
propaganda
46. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Royal Road
DNA dating
macadam road
republic
47. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
shogun
eightfold path
imperialism
chinampa
48. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
concession
protectorate
paleontologists
Deism
49. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
czar (tsar)
monsoon
Atlantic Charter
eightfold path
50. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
helsinki accords
hubris
Brahmin
Warsaw pact