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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Hunting and gathering
guest workers
foraging
apostle
domino theory
2. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
shi
protectorate
space shuttle
cynicism
3. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
global village
Yalta Conference
Mongol Peace
perestroika
4. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
kibbutzim
utilitarian
monsoon
Neo- Confucianism
5. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
internal migration
illuminated manuscript
proletariat
protectorate
6. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
world trade center
Renaissance
new deal
Manhattan project
7. An advocate of gradual political change
Nuremberg trials
operation sea lion
eightfold path
conservative
8. The use of passive resistance - or public refusal to obey a law that is perceived to be unjust
neolithic age
civil disobedience
entrepreneurship
jainissary
9. 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
kamikaze
strategic defense initiative
apostle
Utopian socialist
10. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
mestizo
caudillo
strategic defense initiative
burgess
11. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
hominid
junkers
containment
urdu
12. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
apartheid
Nuremberg trials
socialism
Swahili
13. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
desalinization
entrepreneurship
stream of consciousness
foraging
14. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
conservative
shogun
Bolsheviks
theory of evolution
15. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
African National Congress
usury
collective bargaining
oracle bone
16. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
emir
estate
polygamy
duma
17. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
space probe
armistice
jazz
triumvirate
18. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
Huns
geneva conference
guomindang
Neo- Confucianism
19. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
feudalism
humanism
Dadaism
gulf of tonkin resolution
20. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
guest workers
helsinki accords
lebnsraum
strategic defense initiative
21. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
feudalism
Protestant Reformation
Bolsheviks
dynasty
22. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
messiah
nationalism
final solution
paleolithic age
23. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
eightfold path
Huguenots
civil disobedience
aristocracy
24. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
jazz
junkers
sati
tree-ring dating
25. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
five-year plans
Renaissance
apprenticeship
capitalism
26. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
quipu
epicureanism
island-hopping
caravel
27. 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
anthropology
artifacts
Huguenots
natural selection
28. A government of three rulers
dharma
enclosure movement
bourgeoisie
triumvirate
29. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
poliburo
city-state
creole
militarism
30. A Muslim ruler
vietnamization
apprenticeship
emir
nonalignment
31. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
abolition
Magyars
dissident
32. The termination of slavery
protectorate
abolition
guomindang
capitalism
33. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
hajj
Ka'aba
abolition
34. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
McDonaldization
triple alliance
island-hopping
radical
35. In feudal Europe - a peasant bound to the lord's land
serf
romanticism
anthropology
ghetto
36. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
realpolitik
satrap
nonalignment
hijra
37. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
operation sea lion
umma
reparation
civil rights movement
38. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
stream of consciousness
people of the book
hijra
bushido
39. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
guomindang
collective farming
dharma
patriarch
40. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
gulf of tonkin resolution
Huns
guild
griot
41. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
Bolsheviks
Shiva
separation of powers
dynasty
42. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
Warsaw pact
sakk
mystery religion
Lend- Lease Act
43. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
enclosure movement
macadam road
laissez-faire
empire
44. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
vassal
Balkans
command economy
artifact
45. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
Mongol Peace
society of Jesus
truncated pyramid
Reconquest
46. 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
people of the book
diocese
justification by faith
47. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
Anabaptists
radical
laissez-faire
operation sea lion
48. 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
checks and balances
truncated pyramid
strategic defense initiative
pogram
49. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
papal states
stoicism
monsoon
reparation
50. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
Afrikaner
quinine
Neolithic Revolution
liberal