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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
final solution
burqa
moderate
republic
2. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
terra cotta
bushido
caravel
theory of relativity
3. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
great lap forward
five pillars
Tamils
edict of Nantes
4. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
nicene creed
zen Buddhism
mandate
green revolution
5. Large collective farm
Balkans
anthropology
coalition
commune
6. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
geneva conference
city-state
caravel
Homo sapiens
7. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
league of nations
trench warfare
coalition
Bell Act
8. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
Inquisition
chinampa
thermoluminescent dating
stateless society
9. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
Kellogg-Briand Pact
space shuttle
burgess
abolition
10. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
absolute monarch
creole
golden mean
feudalism
11. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
impressionism
detente
caudillo
factors of production
12. The Muslim name for God
hajj
Allah
enclosure movement
monsoon
13. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
strategic defense initiative
Royal Road
imperialism
predestination
14. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
Zionism
impressionism
comedy
eightfold path
15. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
patriarchal
terra cotta
city-state
gospel
16. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
peninsular
gospel
manor
Allah
17. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
scorched- earth policy
plebeian
Palestine liberation organization
luftwaffe
18. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
steppe
mau mau
Allah
existentialism
19. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
psychoanalysis
repartamiento
Huguenots
pariah
20. 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
treaty of Versailles
steppe
tree-ring dating
mau mau
21. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
global village
Royal Road
Reconquest
peninsular
22. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
entrepreneurship
mystery religion
Protestant Reformation
new deal
23. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
indulgence
Protestant Reformation
concession
tribune
24. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
nongovernmental organization
liberal
desalinization
theory of evolution
25. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
totalitarian state
diaspora
tyrant
patriarchal
26. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
Protestant Reformation
commune
vassal
liberal
27. The organized elimination of an entire population group
genocide
patriarchal
artifacts
world health organization
28. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Royal Road
terra cotta
council of Trent
iconoclastic controversy
29. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
dictator
Bolsheviks
Reconquest
scientific revolution
30. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
apostle
silk roads
colony
jainissary
31. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
animism
feudalism
dowry death
city-state
32. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
nation-stae
collective farming
apartheid
code of Hammurabi
33. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
space station
McDonaldization
fourteen points
devshirme
34. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
quinine
Neolithic Revolution
yin and yang
Deism
35. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
consul
Truman doctrine
nation-stae
philosopher
36. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
joint-stock company
pogram
Anabaptists
brinkmanship
37. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
griot
estates-general
factors of production
code of Hammurabi
38. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
Yalta Conference
covenant
paleolithic age
steppe
39. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
satellite nation
poliburo
stateless society
dictator
40. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
triple entente
third world
Nuremberg trials
communism
41. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
paleontologists
Huguenots
kibbutzim
five-year plans
42. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Bolsheviks
Reconquest
Dar al- Islam
Cultural Revolution
43. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
Sikhs
brinkmanship
feminist
consumerism
44. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
stupa
shi
paleolithic age
manor
45. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
space probe
civil rights movement
nongovernmental organization
seppuku
46. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
predestination
consul
armistice
47. Studying fossil remains
paleontologists
edict of Nantes
society of Jesus
golden mean
48. Muslim social and ethical law
theory of relativity
shariah
island-hopping
absolute monarch
49. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
mau mau
hellenistic culture
ethnic cleansing
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
50. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
Cyrillic alphabet
existentialism
specialization of labor
cynicism