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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 four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
four tigers
kibbutzim
shi
2. Member of elite class in ancient rome
containment
missi dominici
patrician
fresco
3. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
paleontologists
stele
European Union
African National Congress
4. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
commercial agriculture
collective farming
four modernizations
guild
5. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
Dadaism
Renaissance
artifacts
paleolithic age
6. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
one-child policy
realpolitik
republic
caste
7. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
griot
hijra
predestination
ethnic cleansing
8. Area that granted investment or trading privileges to another country
sphere of influence
Palestine liberation organization
kowtow
Bell Act
9. A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and 18th centuries stating that human beings were basically good and could be further improved through education - and upholding reason as the key to truth
helsinki accords
ziggurat
dictator
enlightenment
10. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
shi
collective bargaining
missi dominici
Ka'aba
11. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
Dadaism
apartheid
coalition
karma
12. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
space shuttle
parallel descent
archeology
final solution
13. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
triangular trade
messiah
dynasty
estate
14. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
separation of powers
balance of power
bushido
triple alliance
15. Studying fossil remains
mestizo
paleontologists
Atlantic Charter
Nuremberg trials
16. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
kinship group
peninsular
gulf of tonkin resolution
Tamils
17. The organized elimination of an entire population group
civilization
middle passage
scientific revolution
genocide
18. 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
illuminated manuscript
commune
Huguenots
fourteen points
19. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
triple alliance
monotheism
green revolution
hajj
20. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
jazz
burgess
existentialism
zen Buddhism
21. The termination of slavery
abolition
social contract
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
dictator
22. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
Yahweh
dowry death
nicene creed
human cloning
23. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
triangular trade
loess
shogun
militarism
24. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
third world
satellite nation
jazz
parallel descent
25. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
thermoluminescent dating
golden mean
legitimacy
enlightenment
26. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
tragedy
purdah
cynicism
command economy
27. Theory proposed by Elbert Einstein which stated that the measurement of motion varies relative to a specific observer and that a small amount of mass can be converted into a vast amount of energy
estate
laissez-faire
theory of relativity
karma
28. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
kinship group
social contract
Cultural Revolution
totalitarian state
29. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
five-year plans
Truman doctrine
edict of Nantes
purdah
30. The power to prevent the execution of law
veto
people of the book
marathon
devshirme
31. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
latifundia
thermoluminescnce dating
hieroglyphics
proletariat
32. 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
natural selection
operation overlord
Sepoys
neolithic age
33. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
Tamils
consul
diaspora
operation Barbarossa
34. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
shinto
ethnic cleansing
proletariat
enlightenment
35. One who disagrees; a dissenter
democratization
dowry death
dissident
green revolution
36. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
Manhattan project
Magyars
daimyo
civil service system
37. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
robotics
social contract
dharma
Tarah
38. Large estate in ancient Rome
island-hopping
kinship group
latifundia
strategic defense initiative
39. A common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
democratization
Holocaust
euro
pariah
40. 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
internal migration
suffrage
kamikaze
zen Buddhism
41. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
dowry death
fascism
burqa
millet
42. Soviet reform initiated in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev by which the political system was moderated to allow votes to choose from a slate of candidates
detente
rotten borough
democratization
space station
43. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
intifada
realism
external migration
consumerism
44. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
Brahmin
Nuremberg trials
apostle
Homo sapiens
45. 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
sati
hellenistic culture
shi
Justinian Code
46. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
terra cotta
factors of production
bushido
third world
47. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
Yahweh
Columbian exchange
chlorofluorocarbons
Ka'aba
48. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
paleolithic age
radiocarbon dating
caudillo
bushido
49. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
terra cotta
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
foraging
society of Jesus
50. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
poliburo
mau mau
kibbutzim
final solution