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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
Cyrillic alphabet
communism
thermoluminescnce dating
diocese
2. The german air force
hominid
luftwaffe
age grade
serf
3. A greak city-state
capitalism
satellite nation
polis
burgher
4. A guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
glyph
anthropology
apprenticeship
terra cotta
5. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
gospel
peninsular
desalinization
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
fourteen points
propaganda
zen Buddhism
enlightened despot
7. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
triumvirate
commercial agriculture
final solution
capitalism
8. Also called star wars - a 1983 program launched by President Reagan to protect of the US against incoming enemy missiles
strategic defense initiative
Manhattan project
new economic policy
detente
9. A ceasefire agreement
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
armistice
millet
mensheviks
10. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
harem
surrealism
foraging
social Darwinism
11. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
hominid
stateless society
cubism
democratization
12. Member of the elite social class of colonial Spanish america - composed of person who has been born in Spain
time of troubles
Manhattan project
fourteen points
peninsular
13. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
civil service system
yin and yang
edict of Nantes
philosopher
14. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
peace crops
truncated pyramid
great lap forward
triangular trade
15. Russian Parliament
duma
ghetto
edict of Nantes
anthropology
16. Large estate in ancient Rome
commercial revolution
third reich
space station
latifundia
17. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
hominid
apostle
lateen sail
appeasement
18. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
Holocaust
umma
new deal
absolute monarch
19. Objects shaped by humans
laissez-faire
polygamy
artifacts
Dadaism
20. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
constitutional monarchy
time of troubles
tribune
shia
21. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
coalition
paleontologists
zen Buddhism
daimyo
22. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
usury
civilization
paleontologists
neolithic age
23. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
zen Buddhism
archeology
bourgeoisie
hubris
24. A policy adopted in the 1980s in the People's Republic of China stating that a couple is allowed only one child
constitutional monarchy
mystery religion
one-child policy
steppe
25. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
patriarch
Afrikaner
kamikaze
Tamils
26. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
Catholic reformation
realism
papal states
consul
27. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
stupa
capitalism
kibbutzim
benefice
28. One who disagrees; a dissenter
Huns
dissident
hellenistic culture
five pillars
29. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
genocide
entrepreneurship
tragedy
operation sea lion
30. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
kinship group
burgess
icon
militarism
31. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
purdah
veto
specialization of labor
socialism
32. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
external migration
final solution
laissez-faire
realpolitik
33. The symbol used as part of a writing system
zen Buddhism
hajj
glyph
chlorofluorocarbons
34. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
Bosporus Strait
triple entente
capitalism
Huns
35. A government of three rulers
Tarah
Magyars
triumvirate
mandate
36. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
Swahili
league of nations
paleolithic age
astrolabe
37. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
triangular trade
genocide
appeasement
manga carta
38. 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
dissident
parliament
archaeology
enlightenment
39. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
yin and yang
burgess
millet
artifact
40. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
mameduke
new economic policy
millet
intifada
41. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
radical
humanism
triple alliance
edict of Nantes
42. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
space probe
dissident
guild
stele
43. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
middle passage
chinampa
code of Hammurabi
vassal
44. A Persian king
proletariat
shah
league of nations
steppe
45. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
animism
Allah
empire
patriarch
46. The global culture inspired and promoted by US advertising
McDonaldization
four modernizations
social contract
hajj
47. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
iconoclastic controversy
one-child policy
civil service system
radiocarbon dating
48. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
European Union
guest workers
parallel descent
Atlantic Charter
49. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
armistice
shinto
Magyars
Reconquest
50. One of the first 4 books of the Christian new testament
griot
caudillo
internal migration
gospel