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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
Taliban
civil disobedience
world health organization
European Union
2. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
nonalignment
people of the book
fourteen points
3. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
nongovernmental organization
aristocracy
illuminated manuscript
Magyars
4. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
chlorofluorocarbons
pasteurization
tree-ring dating
Huguenots
5. 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
peace crops
coalition
Reconquest
pasteurization
6. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
operation Barbarossa
Justinian Code
bourgeoisie
third world
7. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
steppe
stem cell research
Ka'aba
tribune
8. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
burqa
third reich
shogun
loess
9. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
dynasty
constitutional monarchy
operation sea lion
mau mau
10. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
operation overlord
fresco
patrician
entrepreneurship
11. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
Cyrillic alphabet
animism
economic imperialism
strategic defense initiative
12. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
gospel
mystery religion
empire
desalinization
13. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
urdu
shah
totalitarian state
Lend- Lease Act
14. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
dharma
enlightenment
shia
new economic policy
15. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Tarah
middle passage
Columbian exchange
16. 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
hajj
cuneiform
peninsular
17. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
European Union
Holocaust
nonalignment
shah
18. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
suffrage
shogun
new deal
civilization
19. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
diaspora
epicureanism
triangular trade
Balfour Declaration
20. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
DNA dating
trench warfare
kowtow
mestizo
21. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
coalition
fresco
luftwaffe
covenant
22. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
zen Buddhism
guest workers
propaganda
concession
23. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
icon
truncated pyramid
encomienda
global village
24. A 26 mile race
paleolithic age
marathon
external migration
emir
25. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
operation sea lion
British Commonwealth
push-pull factors
sphere of influence
26. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shinto
Huguenots
quipu
colony
27. The concept of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu that each branch of government be granted distinct powers that served to limit those of the other branches of the government
glasnost
tragedy
checks and balances
justification by faith
28. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
realpolitik
guomindang
parliament
empire
29. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
socialism
caudillo
nongovernmental organization
bushido
30. A political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism and loyalty to the sate and features one-party rule by an authoritarian ruler
Swahili
kamikaze
Balfour Declaration
fascism
31. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
ghazi
liberal
Catholic reformation
treaty of Versailles
32. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
dynasty
chlorofluorocarbons
functionalism
armistice
33. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
Huguenots
age grade
communism
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
34. A Muslim ruler
neolithic age
purdah
emir
Warsaw pact
35. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
oracle bone
internal migration
Swahili
zen Buddhism
36. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
justification by faith
thermoluminescent dating
Cultural Revolution
collective bargaining
37. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
third reich
edict of Nantes
loess
marshall plan
38. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
diaspora
bushido
hellenistic culture
cuneiform
39. 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
caravanserials
predestination
existentialism
40. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
island-hopping
ayatollah
encomienda
realism
41. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
Yom Kippur
four tigers
tyrant
new economic policy
42. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
archaeology
tragedy
geocentric theory
laissez-faire
43. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Afrikaner
sati
feudalism
marathon
44. A delclaration advocating free - document signed by FDR and Churchill that expressed all of their intents in WWII - including that they sought no territorial gain - wouldn't allow a territorial change without the consent of all parties involved - an
urdu
Deism
caravel
Atlantic Charter
45. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
suffrage
appeasement
realpolitik
Utopian socialist
46. Muslim social and ethical law
shariah
chivalry
millet
silk roads
47. Hunting and gathering
world trade organization
dictator
foraging
checks and balances
48. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
socialism
urdu
Boers
Sikhs
49. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
operation Barbarossa
urdu
containment
commercial revolution
50. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
steppe
reactionary
tyrant
extraterritorial rights