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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 right of a dynasty to rule
Warsaw pact
legitimacy
internal migration
socialism
2. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
middle passage
impressionism
surrealism
Homo sapiens
3. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
operation overlord
great lap forward
green revolution
new deal
4. Spacecraft with the capacity to return to earth under its own power
space shuttle
Ka'aba
domestic system
caudillo
5. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
bushi
Huguenots
mensheviks
stream of consciousness
6. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
hieroglyphics
Allah
estate
encomienda
7. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
Kellogg-Briand Pact
five-year plans
legitimacy
scientific revolution
8. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
urdu
island-hopping
socialism
sakk
9. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
Columbian exchange
Catholic reformation
justification by faith
edict of Nantes
10. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
protectorate
global village
serf
Kellogg-Briand Pact
11. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
surrealism
paleolithic age
comedy
griot
12. The worship of many gods
stem cell research
Manhattan project
cynicism
polytheism
13. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
archeology
island-hopping
predestination
pogram
14. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
triple alliance
predestination
polytheism
civil service system
15. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
nation-stae
Catholic reformation
truncated pyramid
monotheism
16. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
gulf of tonkin resolution
third world
radiocarbon dating
Neo- Confucianism
17. One who disagrees; a dissenter
dissident
robotics
zen Buddhism
consumerism
18. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
mandate of heaven
silk roads
tribune
manga carta
19. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
nation-stae
Yalta Conference
pasteurization
human cloning
20. An object shaped by humans
artifact
chlorofluorocarbons
artifacts
island-hopping
21. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
chivalry
one-child policy
cuneiform
European Union
22. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
Australopithecus
quipu
covenant
world trade organization
23. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
Balkans
yin and yang
people of the book
duma
24. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
monotheism
luftwaffe
code of Hammurabi
Yalta Conference
25. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
diocese
coalition
shia
papal states
26. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
kinship group
rotten borough
geneva conference
poliburo
27. The symbol used as part of a writing system
feudalism
gospel
glyph
duma
28. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
impressionism
nirvana
peninsular
daimyo
29. 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
Shiva
social Darwinism
civil service system
Reconquest
30. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
ghetto
concession
gulf of tonkin resolution
conservative
31. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
Bosporus Strait
purdah
archeology
time of troubles
32. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
burgher
Royal Road
communism
European Union
33. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
vietnamization
truncated pyramid
pariah
operation sea lion
34. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Allah
Huns
theory of relativity
dowry death
35. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
yin and yang
caste
commune
middle passage
36. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
edict of Nantes
tragedy
estate
bourgeoisie
37. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
paleontologists
junkers
parallel descent
paleolithic age
38. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
shogun
Neo- Confucianism
Tamils
patriarchal
39. Peace plan for the post world war I world proposed by President Woodrow Wilson; its major points included the principle of self- determination and the establishment of an association of nations
world trade organization
fascism
cuneiform
fourteen points
40. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
daimyo
bourgeoisie
democratization
czar (tsar)
41. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
theory of evolution
Boers
Brahmin
quipu
42. Marriage to more than one wife
ethnic cleansing
polygamy
city-state
yin and yang
43. A Latin American military dictator
caudillo
triple alliance
griot
stateless society
44. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
triple entente
great lap forward
artifacts
civil disobedience
45. The organized elimination of an entire population group
genocide
diaspora
thermoluminescent dating
entrepreneurship
46. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
harem
island-hopping
monsoon
eightfold path
47. 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
blitzkrieg
daimyo
Balkans
apartheid
48. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
caravel
Magyars
bourgeoisie
intifada
49. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
silk roads
radical
people of the book
Magyars
50. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
iconoclastic controversy
theocracy
fresco
radical