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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
guomindang
Manchaeism
social Darwinism
radiocarbon dating
2. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
time of troubles
treaty of Versailles
encomienda
push-pull factors
3. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
radical
council of Trent
human cloning
cubism
4. Describes a male-dominated society
caste
Ka'aba
patriarchal
silk roads
5. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
Hagia Sophia
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
hajj
capital
6. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Neo- Confucianism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Yahweh
Sikhs
7. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
shah
world trade center
shi
estates-general
8. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
mandate
four tigers
Warsaw pact
kibbutzim
9. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
chinampa
sati
guild
Zionism
10. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
utilitarian
apprenticeship
green revolution
patrician
11. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
Cyrillic alphabet
chinampa
operation overlord
lebnsraum
12. The technology associated with the application of robots
paleontologists
urdu
robotics
code of Hammurabi
13. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
theocracy
golden mean
nongovernmental organization
terra cotta
14. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
separation of powers
mandate
romanticism
kowtow
15. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
civil service system
collective farming
ziggurat
third world
16. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
manga carta
diaspora
griot
realpolitik
17. An advocate of gradual political change
jazz
conservative
comedy
third world
18. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
great lap forward
social contract
geneva conference
fourteen points
19. 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
bushi
poliburo
enclosure movement
cuneiform
20. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
robotics
peninsular
covenant
proletariat
21. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
coalition
entrepreneurship
edict of Nantes
archeology
22. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
hieroglyphics
green revolution
code of Hammurabi
commercial revolution
23. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
league of nations
mameduke
stoicism
Inquisition
24. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
pariah
realism
Inquisition
fief
25. The termination of slavery
oracle bone
trench warfare
abolition
dowry death
26. The worship of many gods
new deal
dictator
ethnic cleansing
polytheism
27. 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
Zionism
intifada
reactionary
vietnamization
28. 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
fourteen points
impressionism
veto
entrepreneurship
29. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
operation Barbarossa
marathon
Bell Act
polygamy
30. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
jainissary
plebeian
collective bargaining
Mongol Peace
31. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
tree-ring dating
caravanserials
pariah
trench warfare
32. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
Australopithecus
golden mean
patriarch
space probe
33. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
terra cotta
absolute monarch
cubism
stateless society
34. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
brinkmanship
monsoon
truncated pyramid
terra cotta
35. An administration in which voters decide on issues themselves rather than through representatives
hieroglyphics
communism
patriarch
diocese
36. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
predestination
coalition
sati
shinto
37. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
detente
sphere of influence
lebnsraum
Catholic reformation
38. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
steppe
scientific revolution
triumvirate
mystery religion
39. One who disagrees; a dissenter
dissident
armistice
nationalism
manor
40. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
emir
bushido
daimyo
kaiser
41. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
consul
predestination
Afrikaner
pasteurization
42. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
iconoclastic controversy
Afrikaner
patriarchal
dynasty
43. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
operation Barbarossa
suffrage
chlorofluorocarbons
lebnsraum
44. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
Swahili
indulgence
appeasement
triple entente
45. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
stele
ethnic cleansing
Balkans
thermoluminescent dating
46. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
gospel
diocese
eightfold path
African National Congress
47. A policy passed by the US congress in 1941 to allow President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the USA
stream of consciousness
Sepoys
Lend- Lease Act
macadam road
48. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
diocese
British Commonwealth
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
new deal
49. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
conservative
factors of production
reactionary
nonalignment
50. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
silk roads
moderate
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