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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
justification by faith
human cloning
realism
desalinization
2. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
benefice
pogram
illuminated manuscript
Yalta Conference
3. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
global village
colony
society of Jesus
surrealism
4. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
Neo- Confucianism
artifacts
British Commonwealth
nationalism
5. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
zen Buddhism
commune
human cloning
utilitarian
6. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
Yahweh
mystery religion
silk roads
divine right of kings
7. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
thermoluminescnce dating
peninsular
republic
scientific revolution
8. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
laissez-faire
cynicism
burgess
Ka'aba
9. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
pasteurization
radiocarbon dating
perestroika
protectorate
10. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
stoicism
kamikaze
thermoluminescnce dating
glasnost
11. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
Truman doctrine
economic imperialism
papal states
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
12. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
joint-stock company
time of troubles
messiah
Nuremberg trials
13. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
militarism
Hagia Sophia
Australopithecus
peace crops
14. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
sunni
joint-stock company
geneva conference
postdam conference
15. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
sakk
containment
Huns
glasnost
16. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
one-child policy
hijra
specialization of labor
space station
17. 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
balance of power
caudillo
legion
18. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
lebnsraum
blitzkrieg
realism
absolute monarch
19. Muslim social and ethical law
hieroglyphics
vassal
shariah
imperialism
20. Involves obtaining samples of the genetic material of DNA from living donors and comparing it with the DNA from other persons or from animals computers and then are used to determine the rate of change in the DNA
constitutional monarchy
dictator
illuminated manuscript
DNA dating
21. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
age grade
archaeology
DNA dating
operation Barbarossa
22. A government of three rulers
latifundia
dissident
triumvirate
estate
23. Studying fossil remains
burgher
marshall plan
hijra
paleontologists
24. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
scientific revolution
enlightenment
Palestine liberation organization
Dadaism
25. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
homeland
Justinian Code
council of Trent
shi
26. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
plebeian
robotics
divine right of kings
colony
27. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
chivalry
Protestant Reformation
world health organization
28. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
tragedy
Ka'aba
abolition
theocracy
29. Hunting and gathering
eightfold path
Neo- Confucianism
foraging
DNA dating
30. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
gulf of tonkin resolution
poliburo
jazz
civil rights movement
31. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
marathon
propaganda
joint-stock company
Hagia Sophia
32. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
peace crops
nongovernmental organization
Columbian exchange
Protestant Reformation
33. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
concession
command economy
thermoluminescent dating
mobilization
34. 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
social Darwinism
hijra
patriarchal
stupa
35. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
civil disobedience
genocide
griot
enlightenment
36. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
world trade center
concession
Bolsheviks
radiocarbon dating
37. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
cubism
extraterritorial rights
Homo sapiens
triangular trade
38. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
edict of Nantes
civil disobedience
paleolithic age
democratization
39. The power to prevent the execution of law
DNA dating
veto
society of Jesus
anthropology
40. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
existentialism
one-child policy
devshirme
Neo- Confucianism
41. The Muslim community of faithful
umma
justification by faith
harem
satrap
42. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
pasteurization
colony
Holocaust
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
43. Peace plan for the post world war I world proposed by President Woodrow Wilson; its major points included the principle of self- determination and the establishment of an association of nations
fourteen points
collective farming
cubism
predestination
44. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
mau mau
stateless society
qanat
civil service system
45. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
paleontologists
brinkmanship
oracle bone
fourteen points
46. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
tribune
polis
kinship group
Balfour Declaration
47. A policy passed by the US congress in 1941 to allow President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the USA
emir
Lend- Lease Act
cynicism
neolithic age
48. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
stream of consciousness
Renaissance
zen Buddhism
chinampa
49. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
Sepoys
mestizo
helsinki accords
guild
50. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
trench warfare
functionalism
economic imperialism
indulgence