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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
Huguenots
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
monsoon
Neolithic Revolution
2. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
nationalism
Yom Kippur
scorched- earth policy
Justinian Code
3. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
Bell Act
vassal
legion
Justinian Code
4. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
sakk
marathon
McDonaldization
homeland
5. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
Mongol Peace
divine right of kings
homeland
Palestine liberation organization
6. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
major domo
entrepreneurship
imperialism
archeology
7. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
human cloning
shia
burqa
creole
8. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
blitzkrieg
Kellogg-Briand Pact
nirvana
operation Barbarossa
9. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
age grade
DNA dating
gospel
ghetto
10. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
European Union
stoicism
collective farming
benefice
11. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
Cyrillic alphabet
five-year plans
astrolabe
collective farming
12. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
harem
DNA dating
Neolithic Revolution
consumerism
13. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
domestic system
dissident
surrealism
dowry death
14. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
creole
stem cell research
geneva conference
Magyars
15. Hunting and gathering
foraging
kamikaze
cynicism
devshirme
16. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
pariah
conservative
stele
17. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
Sepoys
pastoral nomadism
Kellogg-Briand Pact
new deal
18. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
extraterritorial rights
peninsular
European Union
estates-general
19. A 26 mile race
icon
marathon
four modernizations
estates-general
20. Objects shaped by humans
league of nations
external migration
multinational corporation
artifacts
21. 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
hellenistic culture
loess
astrolabe
economic imperialism
22. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
detente
Shiva
Magyars
Anabaptists
23. 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
council of Trent
icon
space probe
theory of relativity
24. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
functionalism
cuneiform
new economic policy
indulgence
25. French Protestants
Huguenots
diocese
joint-stock company
democratization
26. In 1949 defense alliance initiated the the US - Canada and then nations of western Europe
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
czar (tsar)
Bell Act
quipu
27. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
soviet
rotten borough
shi
kibbutzim
28. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
quinine
hajj
militarism
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
29. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
stateless society
proletariat
one-child policy
Reconquest
30. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
Yahweh
dowry death
nonalignment
rotten borough
31. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
capital
kinship group
functionalism
civilization
32. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
kibbutzim
Shiva
serf
radiocarbon dating
33. The Muslim community of faithful
apostle
new economic policy
purdah
umma
34. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
Taliban
civilization
Nuremberg trials
enlightenment
35. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
diaspora
commune
artifact
Sikhs
36. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
strategic defense initiative
thermoluminescnce dating
cynicism
mau mau
37. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
scientific revolution
polytheism
oracle bone
treaty of tordesillas
38. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
cubism
entrepreneurship
vietnamization
third world
39. 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
four tigers
Dar al- Islam
fourteen points
cubism
40. The termination of slavery
divine right of kings
abolition
ghazi
kowtow
41. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
space station
separation of powers
stele
sphere of influence
42. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
stateless society
serf
mestizo
43. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
domestic system
third world
Catholic reformation
pariah
44. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
dowry death
concession
realism
Utopian socialist
45. The German word for 'living space' a goal Hitler wished to attain by conquering Eastern Europe and Russia
joint-stock company
dissident
Columbian exchange
lebnsraum
46. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
green revolution
estates-general
geneva conference
glasnost
47. Imperial officials under Charlemagne's empire who had the duty of overseeing the records of the counts - or local rulers
Homo sapiens
Kellogg-Briand Pact
missi dominici
seppuku
48. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
domino theory
nonalignment
operation sea lion
Hagia Sophia
49. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
league of nations
dissident
multinational corporation
space probe
50. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
world trade organization
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
island-hopping
cuneiform