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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 period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
devshirme
Columbian exchange
neolithic age
pogram
2. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
four modernizations
caravanserials
people of the book
humanism
3. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
apprenticeship
geneva conference
major domo
samurai
4. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
guomindang
third reich
glyph
5. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
harem
Catholic reformation
daimyo
creole
6. Hunting and gathering
estate
shia
foraging
surrealism
7. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
chinampa
czar (tsar)
loess
tribune
8. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
karma
civil disobedience
mameduke
Brahmin
9. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
African National Congress
Balkans
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
liberal
10. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
postdam conference
capital
Swahili
burgher
11. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
latifundia
burqa
emir
devshirme
12. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
bourgeoisie
sphere of influence
imperialism
trench warfare
13. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
Allah
impressionism
third world
messiah
14. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Shiva
commercial revolution
conservative
cubism
15. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
parallel descent
Truman doctrine
British Commonwealth
brinkmanship
16. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
samurai
legion
imperialism
17. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
radiocarbon dating
cynicism
mandate of heaven
stateless society
18. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
mestizo
code of Hammurabi
marshall plan
silk roads
19. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
eightfold path
constitutional monarchy
creole
parallel descent
20. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
ayatollah
perestroika
treaty of tordesillas
DNA dating
21. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
commune
qanat
humanism
sunni
22. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
tyrant
triumvirate
space probe
hubris
23. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
kibbutzim
absolute monarch
proletariat
Neolithic Revolution
24. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
guomindang
shah
urdu
Cyrillic alphabet
25. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
apprenticeship
new deal
quinine
Dadaism
26. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
totalitarian state
domestic system
consul
five pillars
27. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
Taliban
caste
McDonaldization
purdah
28. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
dictator
suffrage
major domo
Taliban
29. A grant of land in medieval Europe
third reich
helsinki accords
fief
Columbian exchange
30. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
radical
caravel
Sepoys
Lend- Lease Act
31. Describes a male-dominated society
Manchaeism
final solution
geneva conference
patriarchal
32. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
existentialism
Deism
u-boats
comedy
33. The organized elimination of an entire population group
genocide
bushido
apprenticeship
Manchaeism
34. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
thermoluminescent dating
oracle bone
Balfour Declaration
humanism
35. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
quinine
new economic policy
marshall plan
serf
36. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
chlorofluorocarbons
space station
polygamy
monsoon
37. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
ayatollah
Shiva
DNA dating
Balfour Declaration
38. Landowning classes in the 18th century Russia used as officers in the prussian army
czar (tsar)
laissez-faire
empire
junkers
39. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
Columbian exchange
nongovernmental organization
sakk
abolition
40. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
chivalry
world trade center
Reconquest
social Darwinism
41. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
moderate
entrepreneurship
homeland
democratization
42. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
council of Trent
Boers
dowry death
collective farming
43. 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
benefice
nicene creed
stateless society
British Commonwealth
44. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
mandate
appeasement
45. 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
democratization
reparation
creole
Balkans
46. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
geneva conference
seppuku
anthropology
league of nations
47. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
comedy
stream of consciousness
propaganda
time of troubles
48. A greak city-state
sphere of influence
messiah
democratization
polis
49. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
operation Barbarossa
African National Congress
democratization
Taliban
50. Objects shaped by humans
polis
Hagia Sophia
artifacts
nuclear non-proliferation treaty