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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 common European currency introduced in January 2002 by European Union
euro
joint-stock company
harem
justification by faith
2. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
bourgeoisie
mandate of heaven
homeland
surrealism
3. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
kibbutzim
capital
moderate
space shuttle
4. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
joint-stock company
sati
treaty of Versailles
stateless society
5. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
Yalta Conference
absolute monarch
Hagia Sophia
utilitarian
6. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
repartamiento
soviet
global village
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
7. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
guest workers
push-pull factors
urdu
fourteen points
8. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
shogun
latifundia
Yalta Conference
Palestine liberation organization
9. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
golden mean
ghazi
third reich
mandate of heaven
10. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
extraterritorial rights
pasteurization
hubris
democratization
11. The change from hunting and gathering to agriculture
Neolithic Revolution
capital
diocese
kinship group
12. A pilgrimage to Mecca required once during the lifetime of a follower of Islam
luftwaffe
hajj
homeland
humanism
13. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
epicureanism
sunni
detente
quinine
14. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
guest workers
parallel descent
Taliban
Mongol Peace
15. A ceasefire agreement
macadam road
daimyo
soviet
armistice
16. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
steppe
geneva conference
Holocaust
Australopithecus
17. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
civil rights movement
Royal Road
dowry death
mau mau
18. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
anthropology
world trade organization
containment
feminist
19. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
usury
feminist
comedy
caravel
20. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Magyars
stele
separation of powers
21. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
helot
chlorofluorocarbons
artifact
astrolabe
22. The worship of many gods
Catholic reformation
polytheism
triangular trade
Neo- Confucianism
23. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
geneva conference
caravanserials
satrap
kinship group
24. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
world trade organization
Huns
Columbian exchange
Manhattan project
25. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
tree-ring dating
Huns
cuneiform
external migration
26. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
cubism
apostle
detente
Huguenots
27. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
kowtow
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
civil rights movement
artifact
28. Hunting and gathering
Swahili
foraging
papal states
Brahmin
29. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
moderate
Columbian exchange
daimyo
kowtow
30. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
imperialism
dharma
totalitarian state
desalinization
31. A warrior for islam
kinship group
ghazi
scientific revolution
enclosure movement
32. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
consul
cynicism
consumerism
triple entente
33. Soviet reform initiated in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev by which the political system was moderated to allow votes to choose from a slate of candidates
Zionism
democratization
poliburo
Allah
34. Agricultural laborer in ancient Sparta
helot
Yahweh
Tamils
anthropology
35. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
Homo sapiens
laissez-faire
Neolithic Revolution
treaty of tordesillas
36. 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
mystery religion
hellenistic culture
archaeology
epicureanism
37. A policy under which the army of the Ottomans' sultan removed Christian boys from their families - educated them in the principles of Islam - and trained them for military service
dowry death
factors of production
devshirme
major domo
38. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
balance of power
thermoluminescnce dating
reactionary
Shiva
39. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
papal states
civilization
dharma
duma
40. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
peninsular
enclosure movement
nation-stae
Columbian exchange
41. 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
enlightenment
theory of evolution
shogun
Cyrillic alphabet
42. Marriage to more than one wife
polygamy
Taliban
economic imperialism
Zionism
43. A member of the middle class in medieval England
parallel descent
burgess
artifact
romanticism
44. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
covenant
diaspora
monsoon
trench warfare
45. 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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46. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
yin and yang
homeland
space station
operation Barbarossa
47. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
sunni
soviet
manga carta
geocentric theory
48. One who pursues the meaning of truth
philosopher
Sikhs
Magyars
mercantilism
49. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
junkers
jazz
scorched- earth policy
terra cotta
50. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
final solution
reparation
benefice
one-child policy