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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
island-hopping
entrepreneurship
epicureanism
containment
2. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
ghazi
Holocaust
creole
command economy
3. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
nirvana
ghazi
bourgeoisie
realpolitik
4. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
patriarch
paleontologists
entrepreneurship
feminist
5. A German emperor
separation of powers
kaiser
Ka'aba
functionalism
6. The belief in one god
factors of production
patriarch
ayatollah
monotheism
7. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
chinampa
extraterritorial rights
archeology
8. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
jazz
time of troubles
global village
Yahweh
9. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
satrap
satellite nation
mercantilism
enlightened despot
10. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
intifada
hajj
Bosporus Strait
Manchaeism
11. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
hajj
u-boats
vassal
12. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
democratization
capital
karma
protectorate
13. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
humanism
enlightenment
chinampa
DNA dating
14. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
edict of Nantes
shi
messiah
Manchaeism
15. 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
Lend- Lease Act
genocide
desalinization
shah
16. German submarines
gospel
u-boats
foraging
quinine
17. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
postdam conference
illuminated manuscript
diocese
18. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
stupa
justification by faith
sati
multinational corporation
19. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
desalinization
external migration
Zionism
city-state
20. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
middle passage
conservative
theocracy
rotten borough
21. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
psychoanalysis
marshall plan
junkers
justification by faith
22. In feudal Europe - a peasant bound to the lord's land
serf
Renaissance
kinship group
lebnsraum
23. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
theory of evolution
cubism
euro
new economic policy
24. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
Swahili
extraterritorial rights
paleolithic age
entrepreneurship
25. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
entrepreneurship
psychoanalysis
Bosporus Strait
coalition
26. The scripture that contains the history of the ancient Jewish people and their covenant with their God
Tarah
Neo- Confucianism
Dar al- Islam
brinkmanship
27. The dissemination of materials or messages to promote one's own cause or diminish the cause of an adversary
burgess
propaganda
Homo sapiens
cuneiform
28. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
intifada
patriarch
illuminated manuscript
tyrant
29. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
Australopithecus
Warsaw pact
legitimacy
feminist
30. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
appeasement
stateless society
emir
capital
31. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
32. A greak city-state
anthropology
socialism
polis
euro
33. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
radiocarbon dating
burgess
apartheid
anthropology
34. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
balance of power
Lend- Lease Act
Yahweh
hijra
35. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
domino theory
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
great lap forward
anthropology
36. Stone pillar that was the characteristic architectural structure of Aksum
joint-stock company
shia
stele
Neo- Confucianism
37. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
psychoanalysis
astrolabe
fourteen points
shia
38. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
Sikhs
nationalism
society of Jesus
aristocracy
39. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
peninsular
mensheviks
nonalignment
socialism
40. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
astrolabe
Sepoys
patrician
shogun
41. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
Mongol Peace
predestination
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Renaissance
42. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
space shuttle
entrepreneurship
council of Trent
caste
43. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
justification by faith
comedy
cynicism
Zionism
44. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
silk roads
Atlantic Charter
satellite nation
city-state
45. A government of three rulers
caudillo
triumvirate
estate
veto
46. Large collective farm
apprenticeship
commune
silk roads
Warsaw pact
47. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
urdu
four noble truths
space probe
thermoluminescent dating
48. Russian Parliament
duma
fief
nonalignment
Inquisition
49. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
duma
commercial revolution
gospel
cynicism
50. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
tree-ring dating
messiah
philosopher
nonalignment