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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
senate
geneva conference
hominid
Sepoys
2. The study of humans as a species
satellite nation
anthropology
manga carta
bourgeoisie
3. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
plebeian
chivalry
silk roads
geneva conference
4. A sole ruler with absolute power
militarism
dictator
repartamiento
tribune
5. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
Anabaptists
British Commonwealth
sakk
mandate of heaven
6. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
balance of power
internal migration
mameduke
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
7. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
senate
nongovernmental organization
kowtow
middle passage
8. Studying fossil remains
repartamiento
paleontologists
mobilization
poliburo
9. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
peninsular
anthropology
Mongol Peace
patriarchal
10. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
league of nations
four modernizations
vassal
tragedy
11. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
lateen sail
rotten borough
operation overlord
conservative
12. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
triangular trade
yin and yang
consumerism
Sepoys
13. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
helot
intifada
internal migration
four tigers
14. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
karma
Deism
homeland
domino theory
15. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
psychoanalysis
pariah
hubris
final solution
16. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
Sikhs
artifact
third reich
sphere of influence
17. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
paleolithic age
usury
Justinian Code
green revolution
18. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
caravel
justification by faith
internal migration
Ka'aba
19. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
Protestant Reformation
strategic defense initiative
stream of consciousness
scorched- earth policy
20. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
lebnsraum
silk roads
triple entente
monsoon
21. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
Balkans
Sikhs
social Darwinism
Allah
22. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
parallel descent
bushi
operation overlord
vietnamization
23. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
patriarchal
theocracy
artifacts
chinampa
24. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
pogram
zen Buddhism
triple entente
people of the book
25. An antimalarial drug
shia
fourteen points
quinine
helot
26. A 1945 conference help at post damn - Germany in which Truman and Churchill met with Stalin to attempt to persuade him to abandon his policy of domination of the soviet satellite nations
domino theory
thermoluminescent dating
operation Barbarossa
postdam conference
27. Large collective farm
apostle
commune
Shiva
shah
28. The five duties required of all Muslims: faith -prayer -alms -fasting during Ramadan - and the hajj
five pillars
world trade organization
glasnost
Truman doctrine
29. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
consul
thermoluminescnce dating
external migration
absolute monarch
30. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
republic
Catholic reformation
global village
pariah
31. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
internal migration
Taliban
dharma
ayatollah
32. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
caudillo
constitutional monarchy
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
oracle bone
33. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
colony
domino theory
mystery religion
fascism
34. 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
Tarah
Tamils
hellenistic culture
Dar al- Islam
35. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
chinampa
stupa
Balfour Declaration
surrealism
36. Objects shaped by humans
domino theory
artifacts
mandate
ghetto
37. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
empire
eightfold path
rotten borough
cuneiform
38. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
radiocarbon dating
repartamiento
shinto
patriarch
39. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
Neo- Confucianism
ziggurat
social Darwinism
gospel
40. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
junkers
mobilization
ghetto
third world
41. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
estate
helot
domino theory
push-pull factors
42. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
kibbutzim
triple alliance
caudillo
league of nations
43. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
mestizo
Royal Road
Atlantic Charter
commercial revolution
44. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
Atlantic Charter
fresco
anthropology
guest workers
45. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
benefice
cubism
hominid
fief
46. The Muslim name for God
totalitarian state
kamikaze
Neolithic Revolution
Allah
47. French Protestants
guest workers
anthropology
nirvana
Huguenots
48. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
mestizo
hieroglyphics
devshirme
treaty of Versailles
49. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
manor
glasnost
feudalism
euro
50. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
glasnost
soviet
blitzkrieg
Balkans