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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 code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
empire
ayatollah
McDonaldization
chivalry
2. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
Utopian socialist
militarism
scorched- earth policy
karma
3. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
militarism
Dadaism
major domo
devshirme
4. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
entrepreneurship
aristocracy
predestination
kamikaze
5. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
purdah
Kellogg-Briand Pact
triple entente
enlightenment
6. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
Protestant Reformation
seppuku
junkers
iconoclastic controversy
7. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
space probe
surrealism
parallel descent
chivalry
8. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
usury
militarism
pasteurization
DNA dating
9. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
Palestine liberation organization
final solution
Neolithic Revolution
imperialism
10. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
burqa
global village
predestination
empire
11. An organization of European countries to promote free trade among its members
justification by faith
European Union
tragedy
illuminated manuscript
12. The right to vote
Taliban
suffrage
empire
Neo- Confucianism
13. A government of three rulers
umma
four noble truths
triumvirate
hajj
14. The Jewish day of atonement
Yom Kippur
Sepoys
chivalry
utilitarian
15. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
feudalism
Royal Road
treaty of tordesillas
age grade
16. An organization established in 1960 by several of the world's oil- production counties to regulate prices and production
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
patriarch
propaganda
shi
17. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
joint-stock company
existentialism
predestination
entrepreneurship
18. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
Bell Act
intifada
Shiva
new economic policy
19. 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
forbidden city
civil rights movement
helot
fourteen points
20. The belief of absolute monarchs that they were granted their right to rule from God
mystery religion
Cultural Revolution
divine right of kings
new economic policy
21. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
guest workers
tragedy
parallel descent
radiocarbon dating
22. 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
empire
apprenticeship
natural selection
caravanserials
23. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
icon
manga carta
reparation
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
24. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
homeland
tragedy
triple entente
Zionism
25. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
domino theory
impressionism
Balfour Declaration
poliburo
26. Characteristic of a culture in which the comsuption of goods and services has reached a level where it satisfies wants rather than needs only
guild
consumerism
illuminated manuscript
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
27. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
Swahili
Nuremberg trials
Anabaptists
world health organization
28. 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
shi
cuneiform
enlightenment
push-pull factors
29. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
usury
macadam road
Atlantic Charter
apprenticeship
30. 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
patriarchal
kamikaze
fourteen points
space station
31. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
extraterritorial rights
social contract
tyrant
constitutional monarchy
32. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
zen Buddhism
dynasty
imperialism
usury
33. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
middle passage
estates-general
ziggurat
geneva conference
34. A Persian king
Tarah
mensheviks
socialism
shah
35. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
entrepreneurship
genocide
realism
covenant
36. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
capital
conservative
Renaissance
predestination
37. The Muslim name for God
Allah
edict of Nantes
hieroglyphics
extraterritorial rights
38. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
Cyrillic alphabet
time of troubles
commune
pasteurization
39. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
daimyo
stream of consciousness
triangular trade
mameduke
40. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
benefice
Neo- Confucianism
appeasement
scientific revolution
41. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
coalition
paleontologists
society of Jesus
artifacts
42. The technology associated with the application of robots
robotics
hieroglyphics
foraging
epicureanism
43. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
satellite nation
society of Jesus
absolute monarch
artifact
44. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
nation-stae
anthropology
golden mean
triple alliance
45. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
commercial agriculture
caravanserials
Magyars
messiah
46. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
comedy
marathon
internal migration
Neo- Confucianism
47. A Muslim ruler
space probe
emir
divine right of kings
feminist
48. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
militarism
Nuremberg trials
internal migration
justification by faith
49. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
nonalignment
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
ayatollah
ghetto
50. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
triple alliance
Australopithecus
latifundia
capital