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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
missi dominici
four noble truths
Justinian Code
Lend- Lease Act
2. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
mameduke
pogram
specialization of labor
code of Hammurabi
3. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
surrealism
trench warfare
concession
commercial agriculture
4. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
Shiva
pastoral nomadism
African National Congress
totalitarian state
5. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
Yom Kippur
illuminated manuscript
constitutional monarchy
detente
6. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
theory of relativity
peace crops
civil disobedience
Bolsheviks
7. Studying fossil remains
entrepreneurship
paleontologists
Truman doctrine
apartheid
8. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
suffrage
shinto
scientific revolution
shi
9. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
robotics
illuminated manuscript
triple alliance
space station
10. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
shi
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Swahili
Lend- Lease Act
11. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
kaiser
helot
pariah
dissident
12. A 26 mile race
feudalism
mau mau
Boers
marathon
13. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
third world
parliament
reactionary
bushido
14. A national legislature assembly
Protestant Reformation
push-pull factors
parliament
theory of relativity
15. The technology associated with the application of robots
robotics
civil rights movement
peace crops
DNA dating
16. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
bushido
artifacts
four tigers
desalinization
17. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
five pillars
global village
gospel
balance of power
18. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
polytheism
Magyars
satrap
helsinki accords
19. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
silk roads
pasteurization
treaty of tordesillas
caste
20. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
league of nations
pariah
middle passage
mobilization
21. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
socialism
golden mean
Palestine liberation organization
burgher
22. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
extraterritorial rights
covenant
monsoon
patrician
23. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
mestizo
tree-ring dating
burgess
monsoon
24. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
social Darwinism
McDonaldization
caravel
25. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
Huguenots
totalitarian state
Neolithic Revolution
iconoclastic controversy
26. A ceasefire agreement
Holocaust
fourteen points
armistice
jazz
27. The Muslim community of faithful
umma
green revolution
apprenticeship
domino theory
28. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
four noble truths
surrealism
Tamils
mandate
29. 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
strategic defense initiative
social Darwinism
satellite nation
plebeian
30. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
new economic policy
bushido
mobilization
hieroglyphics
31. Large estate in ancient Rome
philosopher
latifundia
postdam conference
sphere of influence
32. One who pursues the meaning of truth
philosopher
society of Jesus
Protestant Reformation
human cloning
33. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
communism
senate
parallel descent
pasteurization
34. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
glasnost
African National Congress
ethnic cleansing
new deal
35. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
mameduke
hijra
daimyo
postdam conference
36. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
commercial agriculture
extraterritorial rights
Inquisition
polis
37. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
sphere of influence
stoicism
cynicism
veto
38. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
lateen sail
Huguenots
Hagia Sophia
world trade center
39. A form of warfare in which opposing armies dig parallel trenches from which they engage in combat - used in WWI
geneva conference
space probe
trench warfare
Deism
40. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
Justinian Code
daimyo
trench warfare
realism
41. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
pastoral nomadism
senate
loess
aristocracy
42. Member of elite class in ancient rome
truncated pyramid
shah
satellite nation
patrician
43. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
estates-general
factors of production
nation-stae
operation sea lion
44. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
domino theory
space station
enlightened despot
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
45. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
triple entente
animism
caudillo
junkers
46. According to Darwin;s theory of evolution - process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called survival of the fittest
tyrant
factors of production
Allah
natural selection
47. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
five pillars
sunni
scientific revolution
lebnsraum
48. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
operation Barbarossa
papal states
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
intifada
49. Muslim social and ethical law
hominid
shariah
tyrant
dowry death
50. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
Reconquest
stream of consciousness
diocese
geneva conference