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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
enlightened despot
Royal Road
Palestine liberation organization
rotten borough
2. 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
ghetto
guest workers
Atlantic Charter
Bell Act
3. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
satrap
domino theory
vassal
hieroglyphics
4. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
trench warfare
messiah
ethnic cleansing
benefice
5. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
strategic defense initiative
space station
surrealism
6. Muslim social and ethical law
multinational corporation
estates-general
shariah
moderate
7. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
protectorate
collective farming
neolithic age
chlorofluorocarbons
8. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
league of nations
Allah
collective bargaining
Palestine liberation organization
9. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
space probe
radiocarbon dating
caravel
helot
10. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
Manchaeism
theory of relativity
stele
Bolsheviks
11. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
separation of powers
archaeology
kinship group
veto
12. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
internal migration
Bosporus Strait
colony
repartamiento
13. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
senate
Reconquest
four noble truths
jazz
14. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
Balkans
archeology
space probe
15. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
usury
great lap forward
Manchaeism
fourteen points
16. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
steppe
eightfold path
trench warfare
blitzkrieg
17. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
nationalism
foraging
illuminated manuscript
peninsular
18. A 26 mile race
sunni
social contract
u-boats
marathon
19. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
coalition
peninsular
Allah
appeasement
20. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
entrepreneurship
middle passage
existentialism
radiocarbon dating
21. A warrior for islam
burgess
ghazi
green revolution
illuminated manuscript
22. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
bushi
separation of powers
triple entente
psychoanalysis
23. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
pastoral nomadism
chinampa
macadam road
legion
24. An antimalarial drug
green revolution
dharma
Swahili
quinine
25. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
apprenticeship
dharma
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
aristocracy
26. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
triple alliance
estate
czar (tsar)
economic imperialism
27. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
silk roads
Sikhs
world trade organization
joint-stock company
28. The organized elimination of an entire population group
samurai
triple alliance
genocide
nation-stae
29. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
collective bargaining
joint-stock company
pastoral nomadism
ayatollah
30. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
artifacts
brinkmanship
five-year plans
serf
31. A Latin American military dictator
ethnic cleansing
new economic policy
concession
caudillo
32. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
McDonaldization
poliburo
Dadaism
icon
33. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
nicene creed
council of Trent
utilitarian
Cultural Revolution
34. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
glasnost
perestroika
Tamils
age grade
35. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
joint-stock company
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
nirvana
code of Hammurabi
36. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
joint-stock company
missi dominici
steppe
terra cotta
37. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
economic imperialism
ziggurat
nation-stae
city-state
38. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
forbidden city
colony
samurai
third world
39. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
liberal
absolute monarch
mameduke
archeology
40. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
operation overlord
liberal
apartheid
41. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
Inquisition
communism
kaiser
stem cell research
42. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
anthropology
mobilization
bourgeoisie
five pillars
43. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
samurai
realism
fief
44. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
covenant
Bolsheviks
griot
commune
45. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Afrikaner
triple entente
Hagia Sophia
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
46. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
colony
ghazi
mercantilism
archaeology
47. French Protestants
vassal
Huguenots
entrepreneurship
nationalism
48. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
loess
peninsular
Huguenots
aristocracy
49. Marriage to more than one wife
liberal
laissez-faire
Mongol Peace
polygamy
50. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
stateless society
four tigers
nirvana
fief