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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 change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
proletariat
millet
global village
Neolithic Revolution
2. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
justification by faith
nirvana
cynicism
forbidden city
3. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
third world
polytheism
Sepoys
burqa
4. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
Tamils
macadam road
artifacts
kibbutzim
5. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
ayatollah
absolute monarch
lateen sail
constitutional monarchy
6. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
urdu
space shuttle
chivalry
dowry death
7. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
monotheism
liberal
Manhattan project
Sikhs
8. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
pasteurization
world trade organization
caravel
manga carta
9. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
papal states
millet
tribune
entrepreneurship
10. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
Boers
Homo sapiens
joint-stock company
trench warfare
11. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
truncated pyramid
treaty of Versailles
Huguenots
eightfold path
12. The right to vote
great lap forward
Shiva
covenant
suffrage
13. The symbol used as part of a writing system
liberal
glyph
urdu
apprenticeship
14. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
civilization
British Commonwealth
Manhattan project
oracle bone
15. The belief in one god
new economic policy
four noble truths
people of the book
monotheism
16. A Muslim ruler
emir
factors of production
latifundia
paleolithic age
17. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
thermoluminescent dating
triple entente
Neolithic Revolution
golden mean
18. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
shinto
Tamils
daimyo
nongovernmental organization
19. A greak city-state
polis
commercial revolution
one-child policy
balance of power
20. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
archeology
romanticism
Zionism
DNA dating
21. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
council of Trent
postdam conference
detente
paleolithic age
22. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
pastoral nomadism
proletariat
illuminated manuscript
glyph
23. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
operation sea lion
Dar al- Islam
robotics
covenant
24. An advocate of gradual political change
theory of relativity
space shuttle
conservative
apostle
25. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
shinto
time of troubles
manor
dharma
26. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
British Commonwealth
fascism
thermoluminescent dating
27. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
Utopian socialist
justification by faith
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
civil disobedience
28. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
chlorofluorocarbons
plebeian
McDonaldization
DNA dating
29. The concept of Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu that each branch of government be granted distinct powers that served to limit those of the other branches of the government
collective bargaining
chlorofluorocarbons
checks and balances
papal states
30. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
commune
middle passage
Truman doctrine
artifact
31. German submarines
aristocracy
u-boats
strategic defense initiative
hieroglyphics
32. The worship of many gods
divine right of kings
polytheism
nongovernmental organization
reactionary
33. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
divine right of kings
enlightened despot
monsoon
surrealism
34. The organized elimination of an entire population group
Allah
archeology
genocide
chlorofluorocarbons
35. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
animism
theory of relativity
militarism
monsoon
36. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
command economy
commercial agriculture
romanticism
37. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
constitutional monarchy
empire
luftwaffe
estates-general
38. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
cuneiform
Justinian Code
geneva conference
Lend- Lease Act
39. A national legislature assembly
parliament
satrap
shogun
ayatollah
40. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
dynasty
ayatollah
realpolitik
commercial agriculture
41. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
creole
legion
kibbutzim
robotics
42. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
reparation
fresco
silk roads
macadam road
43. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
joint-stock company
moderate
realism
utilitarian
44. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
middle passage
marathon
Tamils
estate
45. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
burqa
appeasement
brinkmanship
one-child policy
46. 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
kamikaze
major domo
sakk
operation sea lion
47. An antimalarial drug
quinine
polygamy
marathon
chinampa
48. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
Inquisition
marathon
theory of relativity
psychoanalysis
49. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
republic
green revolution
messiah
world trade center
50. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
external migration
domestic system
karma
one-child policy