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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
stupa
Palestine liberation organization
monotheism
desalinization
2. A city and its surroundings territory under the rule of a single government
Sikhs
shah
city-state
age grade
3. 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
Magyars
natural selection
neolithic age
harem
4. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
operation sea lion
ethnic cleansing
hajj
vietnamization
5. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
separation of powers
manor
treaty of Versailles
guomindang
6. The belief in one god
commune
monotheism
soviet
trench warfare
7. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
satellite nation
burgher
Ka'aba
stem cell research
8. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
ziggurat
surrealism
zen Buddhism
propaganda
9. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
civil service system
iconoclastic controversy
natural selection
truncated pyramid
10. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
capitalism
social contract
radiocarbon dating
economic imperialism
11. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
Nuremberg trials
Brahmin
illuminated manuscript
hijra
12. Provincial governor in the Persian empire
guild
republic
plebeian
satrap
13. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
qanat
final solution
Huguenots
justification by faith
14. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
satrap
dictator
satellite nation
McDonaldization
15. The willingness of a country to go to the point of war to defend its interests; -
homeland
brinkmanship
comedy
Zionism
16. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
Bolsheviks
strategic defense initiative
perestroika
pastoral nomadism
17. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
enlightened despot
millet
apostle
ayatollah
18. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
multinational corporation
millet
laissez-faire
Holocaust
19. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
glasnost
mensheviks
balance of power
Dadaism
20. The technology associated with the application of robots
robotics
sati
Dadaism
edict of Nantes
21. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
African National Congress
council of Trent
macadam road
four modernizations
22. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
detente
shariah
third reich
five-year plans
23. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
thermoluminescnce dating
external migration
paleolithic age
monsoon
24. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
republic
jainissary
silk roads
mau mau
25. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
scientific revolution
paleolithic age
perestroika
sati
26. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
appeasement
Ka'aba
operation overlord
geocentric theory
27. Code of conduct of the samurai class in feudal Japan that stressed self-discipline - bravery - and simple living
socialism
bushido
final solution
pogram
28. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
peace crops
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
kinship group
encomienda
29. The right to vote
fascism
Deism
suffrage
epicureanism
30. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
Columbian exchange
external migration
luftwaffe
Anabaptists
31. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
Atlantic Charter
Kellogg-Briand Pact
checks and balances
cuneiform
32. A Persian king
shah
blitzkrieg
Tarah
hijra
33. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
theocracy
Afrikaner
radiocarbon dating
Palestine liberation organization
34. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
Balkans
nonalignment
reactionary
shogun
35. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
u-boats
suffrage
triangular trade
thermoluminescnce dating
36. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
commercial agriculture
nonalignment
burqa
37. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
third world
loess
Ka'aba
ziggurat
38. 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
steppe
four tigers
checks and balances
hominid
39. A government of three rulers
Renaissance
command economy
triumvirate
justification by faith
40. One who pursues the meaning of truth
capitalism
legitimacy
feminist
philosopher
41. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
reactionary
silk roads
diocese
island-hopping
42. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
Royal Road
guomindang
diaspora
republic
43. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
guomindang
chlorofluorocarbons
council of Trent
junkers
44. Member of elite class in ancient rome
Cyrillic alphabet
patrician
new economic policy
cubism
45. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
feminist
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
chlorofluorocarbons
umma
46. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
soviet
absolute monarch
one-child policy
samurai
47. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
helot
theory of evolution
apartheid
urdu
48. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
nation-stae
epicureanism
intifada
glasnost
49. One of the four classes of society in Aryan India
burqa
caste
theory of relativity
seppuku
50. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
polygamy
Nuremberg trials
dharma
moderate