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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 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
samurai
pogram
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
caravel
Dar al- Islam
coalition
truncated pyramid
3. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
postdam conference
civil service system
perestroika
shogun
4. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
stele
mensheviks
steppe
Swahili
5. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
concession
sunni
surrealism
social Darwinism
6. Ancient underground irrigation system used in Southwest Asia and China
bourgeoisie
multinational corporation
operation sea lion
qanat
7. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
social Darwinism
age grade
Australopithecus
liberal
8. Objects shaped by humans
monotheism
artifacts
global village
collective farming
9. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
aristocracy
illuminated manuscript
chinampa
Australopithecus
10. The Jewish day of atonement
glyph
Yom Kippur
Yalta Conference
ghazi
11. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
legion
reparation
Warsaw pact
artifacts
12. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
Shiva
gospel
Swahili
consul
13. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
space shuttle
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Neo- Confucianism
astrolabe
14. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
jainissary
entrepreneurship
tribune
harem
15. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
Yalta Conference
patrician
jainissary
apostle
16. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
Manhattan project
loess
capital
Lend- Lease Act
17. The study of humans as a species
civilization
manor
Huguenots
anthropology
18. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
pariah
moderate
impressionism
totalitarian state
19. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
Neolithic Revolution
seppuku
Truman doctrine
devshirme
20. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
Manchaeism
apostle
Ka'aba
proletariat
21. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
middle passage
radiocarbon dating
ethnic cleansing
foraging
22. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
nation-stae
bushi
Palestine liberation organization
Cultural Revolution
23. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
civil rights movement
steppe
world trade center
guild
24. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
apartheid
five-year plans
peninsular
factors of production
25. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
pogram
Atlantic Charter
foraging
Kellogg-Briand Pact
26. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
surrealism
Tamils
major domo
hellenistic culture
27. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
world trade center
neolithic age
third reich
ghetto
28. An agreement; in the Hebrew religion - the relationship between the people and their GOD
covenant
moderate
Taliban
triumvirate
29. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
macadam road
British Commonwealth
nationalism
kinship group
30. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
burgess
Mongol Peace
harem
mau mau
31. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
caravanserials
comedy
four noble truths
scorched- earth policy
32. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
emir
Manchaeism
Palestine liberation organization
strategic defense initiative
33. A 26 mile race
propaganda
guomindang
major domo
marathon
34. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
civil rights movement
epicureanism
aristocracy
apprenticeship
35. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
code of Hammurabi
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Nuremberg trials
mobilization
36. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
psychoanalysis
utilitarian
polytheism
stupa
37. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
mameduke
manga carta
macadam road
38. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
Yahweh
diaspora
triple alliance
green revolution
39. The study of humans as a species
operation Barbarossa
anthropology
stateless society
epicureanism
40. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Royal Road
vassal
marathon
nirvana
41. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
soviet
natural selection
separation of powers
parallel descent
42. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
Cyrillic alphabet
hijra
helot
militarism
43. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
lebnsraum
European Union
covenant
mobilization
44. An Incan record keeping device that consisted of a cord from which were suspended a number of cords - each containing a variety of knots of various sizes shapes and colors
social contract
mensheviks
quipu
loess
45. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
silk roads
space shuttle
society of Jesus
divine right of kings
46. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
balance of power
plebeian
Cultural Revolution
samurai
47. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
constitutional monarchy
hubris
world trade organization
48. The Muslim name for God
benefice
vietnamization
internal migration
Allah
49. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
capitalism
mystery religion
loess
push-pull factors
50. German submarines
loess
anthropology
u-boats
moderate