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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
enlightenment
kibbutzim
shogun
time of troubles
2. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
one-child policy
four tigers
social Darwinism
Warsaw pact
3. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
monsoon
space station
guild
dowry death
4. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
divine right of kings
qanat
mandate of heaven
scientific revolution
5. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
Bell Act
qanat
socialism
ziggurat
6. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
anthropology
fourteen points
mobilization
helot
7. 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
caste
intifada
dynasty
jazz
8. 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
African National Congress
world health organization
great lap forward
peace crops
9. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
mandate of heaven
qanat
jainissary
fourteen points
10. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
plebeian
soviet
new deal
satellite nation
11. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
absolute monarch
Mongol Peace
civil disobedience
patrician
12. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
tyrant
encomienda
brinkmanship
European Union
13. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Shiva
helot
14. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
European Union
collective farming
nirvana
nation-stae
15. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
hijra
latifundia
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
brinkmanship
16. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
constitutional monarchy
nation-stae
dictator
Cultural Revolution
17. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
society of Jesus
polis
Justinian Code
daimyo
18. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
indulgence
seppuku
entrepreneurship
manor
19. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
polis
dharma
peace crops
triple entente
20. 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
kamikaze
Tarah
dissident
icon
21. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
Taliban
third reich
Protestant Reformation
papal states
22. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
silk roads
mercantilism
steppe
euro
23. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
fascism
aristocracy
neolithic age
democratization
24. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
third world
natural selection
predestination
Columbian exchange
25. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
bourgeoisie
green revolution
satellite nation
Anabaptists
26. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
estate
operation overlord
paleontologists
dictator
27. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
radiocarbon dating
mensheviks
social Darwinism
third world
28. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
city-state
four tigers
repartamiento
age grade
29. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
Holocaust
stem cell research
missi dominici
Manhattan project
30. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
senate
Manchaeism
Australopithecus
realpolitik
31. 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
Brahmin
totalitarian state
treaty of Versailles
terra cotta
32. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
kaiser
shia
pariah
realpolitik
33. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
Lend- Lease Act
soviet
capitalism
parallel descent
34. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
thermoluminescnce dating
totalitarian state
empire
indulgence
35. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
communism
pariah
devshirme
laissez-faire
36. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
stoicism
commercial revolution
joint-stock company
bushi
37. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
constitutional monarchy
Swahili
dynasty
estates-general
38. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
sati
suffrage
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
karma
39. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
thermoluminescent dating
encomienda
geocentric theory
command economy
40. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
jainissary
pasteurization
commercial revolution
Manchaeism
41. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
Renaissance
nirvana
scorched- earth policy
proletariat
42. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
guild
senate
papal states
operation sea lion
43. Member of elite class in ancient rome
millet
abolition
fresco
patrician
44. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
stem cell research
mandate
creole
Neo- Confucianism
45. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
triangular trade
apartheid
Kellogg-Briand Pact
euro
46. A political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism and loyalty to the sate and features one-party rule by an authoritarian ruler
world health organization
shariah
fascism
Cultural Revolution
47. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
pastoral nomadism
nationalism
mandate of heaven
new economic policy
48. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
collective bargaining
communism
Huns
soviet
49. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
third world
Magyars
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
pogram
50. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
Yahweh
bushido
neolithic age
social Darwinism