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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 economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
luftwaffe
helsinki accords
poliburo
mercantilism
2. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
sati
final solution
shinto
loess
3. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
world trade organization
propaganda
indulgence
specialization of labor
4. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
shah
hubris
samurai
nationalism
5. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
DNA dating
enclosure movement
satrap
cuneiform
6. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
fourteen points
DNA dating
separation of powers
glasnost
7. A government of three rulers
oracle bone
Magyars
major domo
triumvirate
8. An advocate of gradual political change
multinational corporation
conservative
collective bargaining
golden mean
9. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
Yalta Conference
cuneiform
extraterritorial rights
kibbutzim
10. Studying fossil remains
major domo
Bosporus Strait
paleontologists
patriarchal
11. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
Mongol Peace
Royal Road
monsoon
constitutional monarchy
12. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
Mongol Peace
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
stream of consciousness
nonalignment
13. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
multinational corporation
duma
checks and balances
desalinization
14. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
Reconquest
five-year plans
archeology
peace crops
15. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
quipu
radiocarbon dating
nongovernmental organization
Huguenots
16. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
people of the book
satrap
space probe
plebeian
17. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
Hagia Sophia
league of nations
repartamiento
Taliban
18. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
commune
desalinization
proletariat
imperialism
19. A sole ruler with absolute power
dictator
harem
hubris
appeasement
20. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
fourteen points
blitzkrieg
communism
hellenistic culture
21. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
postdam conference
stele
Manhattan project
Bosporus Strait
22. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
shariah
luftwaffe
guild
junkers
23. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
Palestine liberation organization
democratization
consul
24. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
qanat
bourgeoisie
helot
Catholic reformation
25. A grant of land in medieval Europe
space probe
Truman doctrine
fief
lateen sail
26. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
satellite nation
African National Congress
divine right of kings
soviet
27. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
natural selection
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
fourteen points
28. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
mandate
millet
justification by faith
Holocaust
29. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
natural selection
iconoclastic controversy
ghazi
lateen sail
30. The study of humans as a species
nonalignment
four tigers
five pillars
anthropology
31. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
containment
harem
bushido
ayatollah
32. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
Afrikaner
radical
island-hopping
triumvirate
33. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
space station
nonalignment
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
collective bargaining
34. A Latin American military dictator
caudillo
burqa
feudalism
great lap forward
35. A warrior for islam
tyrant
apartheid
ghazi
papal states
36. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
factors of production
tree-ring dating
pariah
Swahili
37. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
illuminated manuscript
time of troubles
nicene creed
chinampa
38. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
society of Jesus
radical
estate
vietnamization
39. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
militarism
mystery religion
shinto
jainissary
40. An antimalarial drug
domino theory
Shiva
quipu
quinine
41. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Neo- Confucianism
foraging
Boers
42. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
glasnost
Yom Kippur
estates-general
stream of consciousness
43. Soviet reform initiated in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev by which the political system was moderated to allow votes to choose from a slate of candidates
chinampa
democratization
icon
theory of evolution
44. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
operation overlord
caravel
pogram
glasnost
45. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
veto
Zionism
space probe
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
46. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
ethnic cleansing
capital
vassal
gospel
47. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
multinational corporation
scientific revolution
Nuremberg trials
samurai
48. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
latifundia
collective bargaining
terra cotta
estates-general
49. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
new deal
suffrage
natural selection
yin and yang
50. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
joint-stock company
commune
samurai
theory of evolution