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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
moderate
karma
forbidden city
paleolithic age
2. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
helsinki accords
civil disobedience
diaspora
encomienda
3. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
operation sea lion
yin and yang
shinto
apostle
4. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
fascism
shogun
repartamiento
manga carta
5. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
colony
constitutional monarchy
Cultural Revolution
ziggurat
6. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
militarism
socialism
Justinian Code
age grade
7. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
Tamils
tree-ring dating
commune
island-hopping
8. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
legitimacy
code of Hammurabi
psychoanalysis
Shiva
9. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
militarism
domestic system
triumvirate
pogram
10. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
justification by faith
nationalism
balance of power
Boers
11. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
Neo- Confucianism
Magyars
containment
Hagia Sophia
12. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
separation of powers
comedy
parliament
balance of power
13. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
enlightenment
caravanserials
Nuremberg trials
humanism
14. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
commercial revolution
edict of Nantes
mandate of heaven
tyrant
15. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
enlightenment
seppuku
four noble truths
shia
16. A national legislature assembly
society of Jesus
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
shia
parliament
17. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
third reich
moderate
silk roads
18. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
geocentric theory
capital
satrap
peninsular
19. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
cynicism
eightfold path
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Yalta Conference
20. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
mobilization
time of troubles
creole
pogram
21. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
mandate of heaven
civil service system
Tamils
Renaissance
22. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
seppuku
Sepoys
messiah
23. 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
domino theory
Shiva
samurai
kamikaze
24. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
paleolithic age
qanat
mystery religion
apartheid
25. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
space probe
parallel descent
colony
Taliban
26. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
covenant
trench warfare
dynasty
enclosure movement
27. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
poliburo
helot
hajj
28. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
marshall plan
realism
kaiser
nongovernmental organization
29. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
theocracy
final solution
yin and yang
totalitarian state
30. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
trench warfare
Cultural Revolution
Yahweh
quinine
31. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
gulf of tonkin resolution
shi
Atlantic Charter
samurai
32. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
fresco
purdah
thermoluminescent dating
gospel
33. The study of cultures through the examination of artifacts
Dar al- Islam
ethnic cleansing
rotten borough
archaeology
34. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
steppe
extraterritorial rights
Yalta Conference
treaty of tordesillas
35. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
griot
shah
Nuremberg trials
moderate
36. Describes a male-dominated society
social Darwinism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
specialization of labor
patriarchal
37. The power to prevent the execution of law
veto
messiah
proletariat
bushi
38. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
Deism
Lend- Lease Act
radiocarbon dating
new deal
39. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
bushido
pariah
commune
emir
40. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
fief
human cloning
radical
Manhattan project
41. 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
democratization
external migration
monotheism
macadam road
42. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
zen Buddhism
space station
Royal Road
eightfold path
43. 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
hominid
Protestant Reformation
triangular trade
44. The right of a dynasty to rule
nongovernmental organization
legitimacy
senate
justification by faith
45. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
estate
Dadaism
feudalism
Tarah
46. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
Balkans
Anabaptists
ghazi
triple entente
47. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
iconoclastic controversy
sunni
geocentric theory
epicureanism
48. 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
astrolabe
treaty of Versailles
major domo
qanat
49. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Kellogg-Briand Pact
cynicism
existentialism
Warsaw pact
50. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
geneva conference
Hagia Sophia
detente
great lap forward