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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
homeland
internal migration
Tamils
sunni
2. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
Zionism
mau mau
shi
third reich
3. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
hijra
republic
Zionism
civilization
4. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
social contract
nation-stae
liberal
illuminated manuscript
5. In medieval Europe - a privilege granted to a vassal in exchange for military service or agricultural labor
benefice
iconoclastic controversy
functionalism
loess
6. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
Inquisition
harem
Ka'aba
guild
7. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
homeland
final solution
communism
legion
8. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
city-state
soviet
green revolution
apartheid
9. The study of humans as a species
ghazi
anthropology
triple entente
shogun
10. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
operation Barbarossa
geneva conference
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
senate
11. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
stem cell research
papal states
Justinian Code
fief
12. 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
civilization
kowtow
theory of relativity
vassal
13. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
cuneiform
new deal
Manhattan project
third reich
14. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
nirvana
totalitarian state
treaty of Versailles
McDonaldization
15. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
Huns
green revolution
stoicism
abolition
16. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
colony
nation-stae
factors of production
umma
17. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
apostle
homeland
Tamils
polytheism
18. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
European Union
blitzkrieg
diaspora
economic imperialism
19. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
Protestant Reformation
czar (tsar)
civilization
nicene creed
20. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
Atlantic Charter
third reich
reactionary
Yalta Conference
21. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
peninsular
messiah
nonalignment
benefice
22. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
lateen sail
glyph
u-boats
stoicism
23. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
Sepoys
four tigers
operation Barbarossa
checks and balances
24. Objects shaped by humans
people of the book
aristocracy
estate
artifacts
25. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
collective bargaining
millet
European Union
Bolsheviks
26. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
radiocarbon dating
estate
strategic defense initiative
nationalism
27. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
senate
scientific revolution
monsoon
monotheism
28. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
Boers
shinto
senate
artifacts
29. 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
abolition
strategic defense initiative
existentialism
Lend- Lease Act
30. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
Columbian exchange
push-pull factors
kowtow
Magyars
31. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
fief
hubris
world trade organization
pasteurization
32. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
stream of consciousness
guild
Manchaeism
archaeology
33. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
collective bargaining
city-state
Allah
world trade center
34. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
domino theory
creole
luftwaffe
silk roads
35. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
estate
comedy
human cloning
DNA dating
36. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
mystery religion
enlightened despot
forbidden city
nongovernmental organization
37. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
Truman doctrine
global village
capital
lateen sail
38. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
hijra
shi
archaeology
hellenistic culture
39. Russian emperor
czar (tsar)
fief
monsoon
tyrant
40. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
space station
desalinization
hominid
Sikhs
41. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
kinship group
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
protectorate
Neolithic Revolution
42. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
sunni
macadam road
genocide
mensheviks
43. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
ayatollah
joint-stock company
dynasty
Utopian socialist
44. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
consul
Manhattan project
polis
nonalignment
45. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
foraging
mestizo
triangular trade
edict of Nantes
46. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
pasteurization
mau mau
natural selection
Bosporus Strait
47. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
reactionary
social Darwinism
aristocracy
neolithic age
48. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
mandate
predestination
specialization of labor
anthropology
49. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
samurai
aristocracy
eightfold path
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
50. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
Zionism
cynicism
middle passage
truncated pyramid