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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 code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
chivalry
Afrikaner
Manchaeism
ghazi
2. A political system in which a monarch or noble granted land to other nobles in exchange for military services - protection and loyalty
feudalism
umma
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Utopian socialist
3. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
commercial agriculture
nicene creed
geneva conference
time of troubles
4. 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
ethnic cleansing
radiocarbon dating
polytheism
qanat
5. The right of a dynasty to rule
legitimacy
macadam road
helot
space probe
6. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
legitimacy
shia
Zionism
hajj
7. 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
ethnic cleansing
hominid
paleolithic age
enlightenment
8. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
Bosporus Strait
covenant
caste
league of nations
9. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
laissez-faire
jazz
Bolsheviks
10. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
existentialism
Nuremberg trials
junkers
Ka'aba
11. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
cuneiform
consul
kinship group
triangular trade
12. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
space shuttle
Brahmin
DNA dating
mandate of heaven
13. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
edict of Nantes
caravel
terra cotta
Columbian exchange
14. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
hajj
thermoluminescnce dating
archaeology
truncated pyramid
15. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
realism
sakk
abolition
gulf of tonkin resolution
16. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
repartamiento
Palestine liberation organization
manga carta
European Union
17. The Jewish day of atonement
caravanserials
new economic policy
estates-general
Yom Kippur
18. The study of humans as a species
multinational corporation
stoicism
sati
anthropology
19. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
nation-stae
apartheid
command economy
covenant
20. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
McDonaldization
predestination
Tamils
five-year plans
21. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
covenant
Magyars
genocide
astrolabe
22. An object shaped by humans
appeasement
soviet
stupa
artifact
23. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
pariah
stream of consciousness
third world
geocentric theory
24. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
manor
natural selection
nationalism
conservative
25. A warrior for islam
ghazi
radical
loess
propaganda
26. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
kowtow
stoicism
utilitarian
thermoluminescnce dating
27. The power to prevent the execution of law
veto
Zionism
iconoclastic controversy
daimyo
28. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
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29. The organized elimination of an entire population group
paleolithic age
steppe
genocide
jainissary
30. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
lateen sail
lebnsraum
serf
rotten borough
31. Hunting and gathering
five pillars
foraging
pastoral nomadism
sphere of influence
32. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
Australopithecus
covenant
dissident
Protestant Reformation
33. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
triumvirate
council of Trent
harem
purdah
34. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
millet
consumerism
Bosporus Strait
communism
35. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
factors of production
estate
lateen sail
patriarchal
36. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
glasnost
consul
time of troubles
domestic system
37. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
civilization
pariah
brinkmanship
encomienda
38. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
rotten borough
entrepreneurship
apartheid
macadam road
39. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
shogun
time of troubles
astrolabe
third world
40. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
thermoluminescent dating
commune
usury
glasnost
41. Russian emperor
czar (tsar)
laissez-faire
u-boats
purdah
42. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
society of Jesus
silk roads
ghetto
scientific revolution
43. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
quinine
strategic defense initiative
divine right of kings
pastoral nomadism
44. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
Huguenots
domino theory
seppuku
scorched- earth policy
45. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
mercantilism
containment
legion
Renaissance
46. A policy passed by the US congress in 1941 to allow President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the USA
ghazi
caravanserials
Lend- Lease Act
Neolithic Revolution
47. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
samurai
manga carta
hubris
48. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
sunni
guomindang
seppuku
proletariat
49. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
intifada
McDonaldization
reactionary
Balkans
50. The Muslim community of faithful
totalitarian state
internal migration
umma
helot