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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 organized elimination of an entire population group
marathon
Sikhs
caravel
genocide
2. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
shi
Bell Act
icon
Balkans
3. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
four tigers
nonalignment
stream of consciousness
Huns
4. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
moderate
liberal
fourteen points
patriarch
5. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
Balkans
space station
five pillars
militarism
6. Members of the same ruling family maintaining control of their country's government for several generations
council of Trent
dynasty
polytheism
Balkans
7. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
natural selection
commercial revolution
poliburo
Nuremberg trials
8. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
stateless society
reactionary
epicureanism
ghetto
9. The Muslim community of faithful
surrealism
umma
czar (tsar)
capitalism
10. A small ship with triangular and rectangular sails as well as stern post rudder that permitted greater control in steering the vessel
caravel
final solution
city-state
helsinki accords
11. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
kinship group
colony
messiah
reparation
12. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
zen Buddhism
anthropology
truncated pyramid
code of Hammurabi
13. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
impressionism
philosopher
time of troubles
serf
14. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
kowtow
nonalignment
lateen sail
Tamils
15. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
Renaissance
guild
factors of production
Utopian socialist
16. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
domino theory
world trade organization
enlightened despot
new deal
17. One of two leaders elected by the patrician assembly who held executive authority under the Roman republic()
polytheism
enlightenment
chlorofluorocarbons
consul
18. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
operation overlord
new economic policy
radiocarbon dating
stoicism
19. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
samurai
marathon
extraterritorial rights
marshall plan
20. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
social contract
Neolithic Revolution
urdu
theory of evolution
21. 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
functionalism
Boers
enlightenment
intifada
22. A German emperor
karma
kaiser
Deism
Palestine liberation organization
23. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
daimyo
ghetto
space shuttle
Reconquest
24. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
social contract
dharma
reparation
hajj
25. Marriage to more than one wife
philosopher
polygamy
estates-general
lateen sail
26. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Allah
Balfour Declaration
protectorate
guild
27. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
steppe
Huns
theocracy
mercantilism
28. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
helot
four modernizations
social contract
29. Describes a male-dominated society
propaganda
containment
patriarchal
league of nations
30. A series of examinations given to determine qualifications for government- related jobs
helsinki accords
civil service system
harem
specialization of labor
31. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
illuminated manuscript
glasnost
Homo sapiens
operation Barbarossa
32. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
pariah
anthropology
thermoluminescent dating
code of Hammurabi
33. The study of humans as a species
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
nirvana
anthropology
poliburo
34. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
Homo sapiens
Boers
great lap forward
Zionism
35. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
homeland
jazz
fresco
kibbutzim
36. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
Dadaism
theocracy
burgher
balance of power
37. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
stupa
peninsular
functionalism
Truman doctrine
38. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
mandate
nicene creed
collective bargaining
desalinization
39. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
latifundia
estate
Cultural Revolution
divine right of kings
40. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
Balkans
world trade organization
major domo
creole
41. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
Reconquest
zen Buddhism
Balfour Declaration
bushido
42. Hunting and gathering
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
moderate
age grade
foraging
43. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
genocide
four tigers
realism
Cultural Revolution
44. 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
guomindang
hieroglyphics
civilization
natural selection
45. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
romanticism
internal migration
five-year plans
hubris
46. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
Columbian exchange
macadam road
Deism
constitutional monarchy
47. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
paleolithic age
glyph
Magyars
Manhattan project
48. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
ziggurat
moderate
communism
neolithic age
49. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
treaty of Versailles
karma
Huguenots
Reconquest
50. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
Boers
hellenistic culture
domestic system
radical