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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 strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
treaty of Versailles
Bosporus Strait
patriarch
existentialism
2. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
one-child policy
reparation
surrealism
great lap forward
3. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
legitimacy
mandate
helsinki accords
comedy
4. A member of the priestly class in Aryan society
Brahmin
Utopian socialist
mandate of heaven
jainissary
5. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
Bell Act
mameduke
world trade center
four noble truths
6. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
justification by faith
shariah
propaganda
Lend- Lease Act
7. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
intifada
chinampa
age grade
legitimacy
8. A ceasefire agreement
Reconquest
armistice
feminist
joint-stock company
9. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
abolition
protectorate
helot
tyrant
10. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
psychoanalysis
indulgence
peninsular
veto
11. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
pariah
final solution
nongovernmental organization
republic
12. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
mercantilism
cubism
czar (tsar)
Reconquest
13. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
mestizo
tragedy
people of the book
joint-stock company
14. 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
luftwaffe
burqa
social Darwinism
zen Buddhism
15. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
natural selection
new economic policy
propaganda
satellite nation
16. A Persian king
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
shah
propaganda
code of Hammurabi
17. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
Homo sapiens
world trade center
philosopher
theory of evolution
18. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
enlightened despot
u-boats
scorched- earth policy
poliburo
19. A 1928 agreement to outlaw war that was signed by most countries
anthropology
people of the book
Kellogg-Briand Pact
apostle
20. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
geocentric theory
coalition
thermoluminescnce dating
fief
21. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
nongovernmental organization
zen Buddhism
Hagia Sophia
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
22. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
kaiser
coalition
edict of Nantes
loess
23. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
loess
daimyo
indulgence
Nuremberg trials
24. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
desalinization
guest workers
diocese
homeland
25. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
separation of powers
loess
collective bargaining
epicureanism
26. Measures the amount of radiocarbon remaining in a fossil skeleton ( this reveals it age)
radiocarbon dating
Australopithecus
four tigers
pogram
27. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
czar (tsar)
golden mean
estate
joint-stock company
28. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Royal Road
socialism
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
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. The german air force
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Ka'aba
armistice
luftwaffe
31. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
genocide
veto
liberal
tribune
32. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
reparation
European Union
eightfold path
epicureanism
33. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
Hagia Sophia
ethnic cleansing
operation sea lion
Inquisition
34. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
animism
hellenistic culture
psychoanalysis
nonalignment
35. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
dynasty
middle passage
absolute monarch
Sikhs
36. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
Yalta Conference
ziggurat
sakk
theocracy
37. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
operation sea lion
Nuremberg trials
shi
psychoanalysis
38. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
collective farming
shinto
totalitarian state
triple entente
39. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Holocaust
iconoclastic controversy
tragedy
daimyo
40. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
stele
golden mean
comedy
samurai
41. 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
functionalism
Anabaptists
fourteen points
mau mau
42. Sumerian system of writing formed by pressing a wedge- shaped stylus into wet clay
apprenticeship
domestic system
cuneiform
quinine
43. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
Renaissance
detente
Neo- Confucianism
nonalignment
44. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
parliament
diocese
mandate
detente
45. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
fief
ayatollah
Boers
illuminated manuscript
46. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
apartheid
ghetto
epicureanism
city-state
47. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
iconoclastic controversy
balance of power
hominid
creole
48. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
papal states
vietnamization
world health organization
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
49. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
papal states
external migration
helot
Protestant Reformation
50. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
code of Hammurabi
triple entente
human cloning
terra cotta