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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 plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
Reconquest
operation sea lion
tree-ring dating
world health organization
2. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
philosopher
divine right of kings
benefice
chlorofluorocarbons
3. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
green revolution
yin and yang
Anabaptists
sakk
4. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
DNA dating
reactionary
constitutional monarchy
balance of power
5. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
shariah
African National Congress
polytheism
6. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
tree-ring dating
hellenistic culture
social contract
7. 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
burqa
republic
jainissary
theory of relativity
8. An elected representative of the plebeians - who sat as a member of Tribal Assembly in republican Rome
polis
oracle bone
tribune
Columbian exchange
9. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
repartamiento
propaganda
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
soviet
10. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
Manchaeism
epicureanism
benefice
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
11. Objects shaped by humans
Boers
bourgeoisie
artifacts
bushido
12. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
tragedy
apartheid
triple alliance
peace crops
13. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
helot
joint-stock company
impressionism
serf
14. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
silk roads
cuneiform
treaty of tordesillas
final solution
15. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
gulf of tonkin resolution
Utopian socialist
Tarah
glasnost
16. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
collective bargaining
zen Buddhism
sakk
truncated pyramid
17. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Sepoys
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Hagia Sophia
artifacts
18. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
liberal
protectorate
stream of consciousness
enlightened despot
19. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Reconquest
hieroglyphics
theory of relativity
mandate
20. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
parliament
dictator
eightfold path
loess
21. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
push-pull factors
pasteurization
karma
fief
22. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
hominid
collective bargaining
Huns
apprenticeship
23. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
nonalignment
shi
polygamy
nongovernmental organization
24. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
domestic system
Zionism
civil rights movement
romanticism
25. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
stem cell research
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
dynasty
one-child policy
26. An object shaped by humans
artifact
age grade
cubism
consul
27. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
age grade
coalition
operation overlord
checks and balances
28. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
Justinian Code
homeland
reparation
commercial revolution
29. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
euro
blitzkrieg
domino theory
world health organization
30. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Royal Road
appeasement
mestizo
legitimacy
31. A national legislature assembly
nirvana
Cyrillic alphabet
Bell Act
parliament
32. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
reactionary
Bell Act
surrealism
global village
33. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
predestination
Sikhs
triple entente
daimyo
34. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
theory of evolution
commercial revolution
imperialism
patriarch
35. The Hebrew name for God
Yahweh
hieroglyphics
propaganda
peninsular
36. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
humanism
code of Hammurabi
capitalism
Homo sapiens
37. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
constitutional monarchy
European Union
DNA dating
archeology
38. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
loess
separation of powers
glyph
satrap
39. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
British Commonwealth
shariah
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Catholic reformation
40. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
kinship group
guest workers
Truman doctrine
monotheism
41. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
triumvirate
council of Trent
new deal
messiah
42. The study of humans as a species
terra cotta
golden mean
justification by faith
anthropology
43. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
civilization
lebnsraum
emir
proletariat
44. Muslim social and ethical law
armistice
shariah
commercial agriculture
Yalta Conference
45. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
stoicism
league of nations
fresco
kibbutzim
46. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
shogun
age grade
reparation
four noble truths
47. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
terra cotta
triple entente
Zionism
mestizo
48. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
kaiser
diocese
apostle
constitutional monarchy
49. The Jewish day of atonement
ghazi
Yom Kippur
rotten borough
sakk
50. A member of the middle class in medieval England
existentialism
romanticism
burgess
kaiser