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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 government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
u-boats
totalitarian state
mandate
radiocarbon dating
2. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
paleolithic age
one-child policy
Yahweh
Anabaptists
3. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
artifact
kowtow
Renaissance
dynasty
4. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
stem cell research
social contract
ayatollah
age grade
5. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
concession
stele
theocracy
desalinization
6. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
samurai
jazz
peninsular
proletariat
7. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
burgess
epicureanism
fascism
Lend- Lease Act
8. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
green revolution
enlightenment
ghetto
marathon
9. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
nongovernmental organization
people of the book
third world
kibbutzim
10. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
shariah
patriarchal
burgher
griot
11. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
Sepoys
messiah
people of the book
chinampa
12. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
caravanserials
hubris
entrepreneurship
vietnamization
13. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
middle passage
Sikhs
Dadaism
polis
14. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
suffrage
missi dominici
middle passage
zen Buddhism
15. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
domestic system
strategic defense initiative
containment
Australopithecus
16. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
time of troubles
helsinki accords
epicureanism
strategic defense initiative
17. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
desalinization
indulgence
kibbutzim
world trade center
18. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
nongovernmental organization
DNA dating
constitutional monarchy
lateen sail
19. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
four tigers
Nuremberg trials
foraging
seppuku
20. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
paleontologists
stream of consciousness
ethnic cleansing
triumvirate
21. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
concession
cuneiform
stoicism
operation Barbarossa
22. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
pastoral nomadism
mensheviks
vietnamization
triple alliance
23. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
specialization of labor
latifundia
edict of Nantes
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
24. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
social contract
hieroglyphics
kowtow
mameduke
25. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
checks and balances
sunni
romanticism
Holocaust
26. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
geneva conference
Brahmin
purdah
brinkmanship
27. Agreement between the united states and the Philippines that granted the Filipinos war damages in exchange for the establishment of free trade between the Philippines and the United States
shogun
moderate
forbidden city
Bell Act
28. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
command economy
socialism
steppe
shariah
29. The Muslim name for God
Reconquest
patriarchal
Allah
estate
30. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
daimyo
guomindang
human cloning
Anabaptists
31. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
tragedy
social Darwinism
operation Barbarossa
neolithic age
32. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
glyph
guest workers
space station
Columbian exchange
33. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Balfour Declaration
missi dominici
Atlantic Charter
34. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
social contract
Huguenots
vassal
cynicism
35. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
encomienda
caudillo
junkers
tree-ring dating
36. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
paleontologists
conservative
consumerism
pastoral nomadism
37. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
functionalism
icon
new deal
liberal
38. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
caravanserials
shariah
brinkmanship
mandate of heaven
39. The Muslim community of faithful
abolition
humanism
umma
artifacts
40. 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
natural selection
psychoanalysis
impressionism
epicureanism
41. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
justification by faith
predestination
push-pull factors
patriarch
42. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
Lend- Lease Act
operation Barbarossa
triumvirate
Zionism
43. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
griot
impressionism
detente
anthropology
44. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
astrolabe
middle passage
imperialism
empire
45. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
shia
ghetto
umma
mau mau
46. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
ghetto
trench warfare
Cultural Revolution
thermoluminescnce dating
47. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
entrepreneurship
Protestant Reformation
scorched- earth policy
bourgeoisie
48. The worship of many gods
peace crops
hubris
polytheism
purdah
49. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
scorched- earth policy
guest workers
tribune
final solution
50. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
manor
soviet
moderate