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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
space probe
Hagia Sophia
repartamiento
helot
2. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
cubism
Cyrillic alphabet
cuneiform
council of Trent
3. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
nongovernmental organization
DNA dating
thermoluminescnce dating
Dar al- Islam
4. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
stele
caravanserials
Zionism
foraging
5. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
four tigers
Bosporus Strait
sati
Homo sapiens
6. The Hebrew name for God
Yahweh
mameduke
anthropology
patrician
7. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
four noble truths
guomindang
jainissary
hellenistic culture
8. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
Bolsheviks
archaeology
nirvana
checks and balances
9. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
green revolution
people of the book
factors of production
robotics
10. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
capital
five-year plans
city-state
Manhattan project
11. An organization of European countries to promote free trade among its members
socialism
European Union
tree-ring dating
pogram
12. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Afrikaner
radical
commercial revolution
collective bargaining
13. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
league of nations
forbidden city
third reich
guomindang
14. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
diocese
geneva conference
four modernizations
satrap
15. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
truncated pyramid
benefice
Warsaw pact
abolition
16. 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
triumvirate
democratization
Sepoys
repartamiento
17. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
reparation
treaty of tordesillas
reactionary
proletariat
18. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
stupa
world health organization
republic
social Darwinism
19. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
Deism
monsoon
Neolithic Revolution
marathon
20. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
final solution
tyrant
monotheism
detente
21. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
manga carta
McDonaldization
Palestine liberation organization
push-pull factors
22. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
constitutional monarchy
dictator
perestroika
space probe
23. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
encomienda
European Union
forbidden city
animism
24. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
commercial revolution
external migration
chivalry
mystery religion
25. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
strategic defense initiative
fourteen points
patrician
czar (tsar)
26. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
laissez-faire
nation-stae
stateless society
collective farming
27. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
Magyars
justification by faith
umma
Zionism
28. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
Brahmin
ghetto
mau mau
psychoanalysis
29. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
czar (tsar)
zen Buddhism
treaty of tordesillas
four tigers
30. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
diaspora
fresco
shah
Taliban
31. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
Justinian Code
triumvirate
creole
caste
32. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
artifact
island-hopping
rotten borough
33. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
parallel descent
Renaissance
satellite nation
Huguenots
34. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
eightfold path
major domo
shah
one-child policy
35. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
marshall plan
one-child policy
internal migration
feminist
36. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
existentialism
jazz
world trade center
four modernizations
37. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
parliament
peace crops
time of troubles
social contract
38. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
appeasement
vietnamization
aristocracy
pasteurization
39. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
consul
rotten borough
monotheism
Neo- Confucianism
40. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Catholic reformation
Taliban
Palestine liberation organization
dharma
41. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
nirvana
hijra
social Darwinism
messiah
42. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
terra cotta
push-pull factors
shi
tree-ring dating
43. A self- sufficient estate in feudal Europe
Allah
yin and yang
Royal Road
manor
44. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
fresco
loess
monsoon
burgess
45. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
illuminated manuscript
sakk
mercantilism
fascism
46. 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
Protestant Reformation
checks and balances
psychoanalysis
Nuremberg trials
47. 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
great lap forward
tree-ring dating
u-boats
archeology
48. Muslim social and ethical law
Warsaw pact
shariah
extraterritorial rights
czar (tsar)
49. A grant of land in medieval Europe
Huns
commercial agriculture
tribune
fief
50. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
pogram
patriarch
Neolithic Revolution
Tamils