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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
external migration
treaty of tordesillas
foraging
people of the book
2. Large estate in ancient Rome
realism
latifundia
Sikhs
stoicism
3. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
checks and balances
push-pull factors
karma
collective farming
4. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
final solution
ghetto
dowry death
space shuttle
5. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
psychoanalysis
silk roads
feminist
operation sea lion
6. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
Bell Act
four modernizations
enclosure movement
colony
7. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
zen Buddhism
hijra
polygamy
homeland
8. An antimalarial drug
capital
quinine
Yahweh
time of troubles
9. 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
homeland
missi dominici
appeasement
Atlantic Charter
10. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
dissident
green revolution
consumerism
mercantilism
11. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
external migration
chinampa
archaeology
Lend- Lease Act
12. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
capitalism
intifada
British Commonwealth
manor
13. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Sepoys
griot
iconoclastic controversy
theory of evolution
14. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
hubris
helsinki accords
Manhattan project
tree-ring dating
15. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
theocracy
postdam conference
stateless society
16. The belief in one god
middle passage
monotheism
samurai
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
17. A German emperor
kaiser
Catholic reformation
romanticism
external migration
18. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
moderate
enlightenment
diaspora
sati
19. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
enlightened despot
diocese
devshirme
Cultural Revolution
20. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
radical
eightfold path
Holocaust
sunni
21. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
dictator
Tamils
epicureanism
Warsaw pact
22. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
caudillo
Yahweh
Brahmin
23. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
anthropology
bushi
impressionism
reactionary
24. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
scientific revolution
estates-general
seppuku
satrap
25. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
democratization
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
proletariat
kamikaze
26. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
commune
realpolitik
ayatollah
oracle bone
27. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
pogram
enlightenment
serf
world trade organization
28. A grant of land in medieval Europe
quinine
fief
commercial revolution
world trade center
29. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
gospel
triple entente
detente
stupa
30. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
Australopithecus
usury
blitzkrieg
gulf of tonkin resolution
31. Russian Parliament
duma
balance of power
joint-stock company
scientific revolution
32. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
philosopher
capital
soviet
latifundia
33. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
tyrant
Nuremberg trials
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Catholic reformation
34. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
guild
macadam road
containment
new economic policy
35. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
detente
Justinian Code
patriarch
glasnost
36. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
jazz
steppe
reactionary
diocese
37. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
moderate
Sikhs
emir
Neo- Confucianism
38. Peace plan for the post world war I world proposed by President Woodrow Wilson; its major points included the principle of self- determination and the establishment of an association of nations
Yom Kippur
green revolution
fourteen points
extraterritorial rights
39. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
radiocarbon dating
karma
Bosporus Strait
helot
40. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
suffrage
harem
estate
capitalism
41. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
ayatollah
DNA dating
yin and yang
Warsaw pact
42. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
shogun
collective bargaining
existentialism
shi
43. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
pasteurization
council of Trent
natural selection
qanat
44. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
McDonaldization
mandate of heaven
helot
paleontologists
45. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
polytheism
space probe
kowtow
ghetto
46. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
existentialism
jainissary
new deal
Inquisition
47. 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
intifada
shah
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
burgess
48. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
estate
four modernizations
griot
patriarchal
49. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
senate
manor
predestination
British Commonwealth
50. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
four noble truths
new economic policy
four tigers
qanat