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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 Latin American military dictator
caudillo
stem cell research
hijra
foraging
2. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
Catholic reformation
Homo sapiens
domino theory
estate
3. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
Zionism
postdam conference
McDonaldization
liberal
4. An Incan record keeping device that consisted of a cord from which were suspended a number of cords - each containing a variety of knots of various sizes shapes and colors
theory of evolution
quipu
sphere of influence
final solution
5. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
usury
third reich
trench warfare
ayatollah
6. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
chlorofluorocarbons
griot
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
manor
7. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
euro
Atlantic Charter
veto
treaty of tordesillas
8. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
brinkmanship
shah
diocese
daimyo
9. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
vassal
collective bargaining
enlightenment
domino theory
10. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
mystery religion
vassal
diocese
ayatollah
11. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
coalition
estates-general
sati
Bosporus Strait
12. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
civil service system
new deal
mandate
feudalism
13. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
McDonaldization
Bolsheviks
commercial agriculture
jazz
14. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
constitutional monarchy
nongovernmental organization
dissident
operation Barbarossa
15. A ceasefire agreement
tyrant
treaty of Versailles
loess
armistice
16. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
Huguenots
space shuttle
consul
shogun
17. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
command economy
anthropology
one-child policy
urdu
18. A sole ruler with absolute power
dictator
steppe
homeland
burgher
19. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
treaty of Versailles
space station
Afrikaner
Renaissance
20. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
operation Barbarossa
Australopithecus
four modernizations
multinational corporation
21. Russian emperor
steppe
peninsular
Royal Road
czar (tsar)
22. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
Balfour Declaration
scientific revolution
Manhattan project
trench warfare
23. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
parallel descent
peace crops
Hagia Sophia
laissez-faire
24. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
republic
great lap forward
mau mau
indulgence
25. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
peace crops
nirvana
psychoanalysis
age grade
26. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
Inquisition
Balkans
shia
junkers
27. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
civil rights movement
Brahmin
serf
Truman doctrine
28. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
surrealism
Columbian exchange
social Darwinism
four modernizations
29. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
illuminated manuscript
vassal
middle passage
artifacts
30. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
civil rights movement
shariah
social contract
31. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
stele
vietnamization
propaganda
urdu
32. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
apostle
separation of powers
triangular trade
iconoclastic controversy
33. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
Australopithecus
final solution
sati
urdu
34. 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
Royal Road
mandate of heaven
repartamiento
great lap forward
35. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
Sikhs
Renaissance
dowry death
Swahili
36. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
comedy
Afrikaner
lateen sail
millet
37. A greak city-state
sati
Truman doctrine
consumerism
polis
38. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
Cultural Revolution
hubris
triumvirate
desalinization
39. 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
feminist
divine right of kings
caravel
impressionism
40. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
Sepoys
collective farming
radiocarbon dating
fief
41. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
usury
duma
communism
truncated pyramid
42. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
appeasement
European Union
domino theory
abolition
43. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
Catholic reformation
harem
legitimacy
hellenistic culture
44. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
stream of consciousness
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
league of nations
enlightened despot
45. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
bushi
loess
cuneiform
Sikhs
46. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
human cloning
consul
final solution
47. Russian Parliament
shia
communism
triple entente
duma
48. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
totalitarian state
burgher
truncated pyramid
Cultural Revolution
49. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
anthropology
edict of Nantes
kamikaze
quinine
50. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
karma
diocese
fourteen points
intifada