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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 patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
euro
laissez-faire
senate
coalition
2. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
lateen sail
scorched- earth policy
encomienda
manor
3. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
operation sea lion
shogun
strategic defense initiative
hieroglyphics
4. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
stateless society
scientific revolution
caste
laissez-faire
5. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Hagia Sophia
African National Congress
triumvirate
shah
6. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
Royal Road
balance of power
pariah
harem
7. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
domestic system
utilitarian
extraterritorial rights
Justinian Code
8. A member of the middle class in medieval England
archeology
chinampa
burgess
impressionism
9. 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
edict of Nantes
jazz
commercial revolution
10. One who disagrees; a dissenter
mandate
stupa
proletariat
dissident
11. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
stele
Justinian Code
nationalism
ghazi
12. Member of elite class in ancient rome
jainissary
chlorofluorocarbons
Shiva
patrician
13. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
Reconquest
final solution
chivalry
European Union
14. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
Anabaptists
Bell Act
bushi
senate
15. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
encomienda
nirvana
yin and yang
city-state
16. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
urdu
consumerism
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
apostle
17. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
jazz
covenant
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
one-child policy
18. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
pariah
estate
middle passage
space station
19. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
urdu
anthropology
jazz
zen Buddhism
20. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
civil service system
British Commonwealth
new economic policy
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
21. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
age grade
bushi
paleolithic age
shia
22. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
archaeology
homeland
suffrage
Sepoys
23. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
five-year plans
repartamiento
jainissary
Brahmin
24. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
icon
theocracy
manga carta
mystery religion
25. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
mameduke
desalinization
city-state
concession
26. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Catholic reformation
hajj
Deism
Reconquest
27. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
quinine
liberal
comedy
euro
28. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
truncated pyramid
factors of production
Australopithecus
satrap
29. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
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30. A humanlike creature that walks upright
hominid
satrap
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
tragedy
31. 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
triple alliance
British Commonwealth
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
abolition
32. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
legion
cuneiform
ethnic cleansing
parallel descent
33. 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
Warsaw pact
quinine
hellenistic culture
monotheism
34. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
five-year plans
mercantilism
epicureanism
Zionism
35. The german air force
burgess
luftwaffe
guild
lateen sail
36. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
third reich
utilitarian
surrealism
legion
37. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
Homo sapiens
Cultural Revolution
space station
world trade organization
38. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
republic
mercantilism
shogun
Renaissance
39. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
umma
tragedy
peninsular
mobilization
40. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
truncated pyramid
paleolithic age
treaty of Versailles
Inquisition
41. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
existentialism
communism
people of the book
society of Jesus
42. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
space station
macadam road
imperialism
43. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
world health organization
sphere of influence
daimyo
city-state
44. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
Swahili
satrap
Manhattan project
nonalignment
45. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Huns
guild
code of Hammurabi
utilitarian
46. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
manga carta
messiah
Reconquest
guest workers
47. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
command economy
umma
geocentric theory
strategic defense initiative
48. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
samurai
duma
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
treaty of tordesillas
49. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
zen Buddhism
operation Barbarossa
Columbian exchange
league of nations
50. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
foraging
latifundia
predestination
utilitarian