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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
reactionary
Neo- Confucianism
city-state
foraging
2. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
trench warfare
forbidden city
eightfold path
enclosure movement
3. A German emperor
Tamils
patriarch
propaganda
kaiser
4. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
blitzkrieg
theory of relativity
operation Barbarossa
suffrage
5. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
council of Trent
terra cotta
genocide
cynicism
6. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
helot
bushi
cuneiform
one-child policy
7. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
code of Hammurabi
iconoclastic controversy
armistice
Royal Road
8. An economic system based on private ownership in order to produce profits - prices are based on supply and demand
capitalism
totalitarian state
dowry death
Boers
9. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
commercial revolution
stream of consciousness
economic imperialism
sakk
10. The Muslim community of faithful
Renaissance
apostle
macadam road
umma
11. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
protectorate
comedy
soviet
indulgence
12. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
shia
collective bargaining
satrap
Australopithecus
13. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
papal states
Bosporus Strait
daimyo
Yahweh
14. The alphabet of the Russian and other Slavic languages
radiocarbon dating
shah
domestic system
Cyrillic alphabet
15. A humanlike creature that walks upright
specialization of labor
hominid
philosopher
radical
16. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
operation Barbarossa
human cloning
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
Boers
17. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
final solution
urdu
cynicism
Royal Road
18. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
sphere of influence
five pillars
Renaissance
joint-stock company
19. A delclaration advocating free - document signed by FDR and Churchill that expressed all of their intents in WWII - including that they sought no territorial gain - wouldn't allow a territorial change without the consent of all parties involved - an
world trade organization
daimyo
humanism
Atlantic Charter
20. A five- year plan launched by Mao Zedong in China in 1958 to increase industrial and agricultural output under which e set up communes in china
great lap forward
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
millet
civilization
21. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
luftwaffe
detente
ethnic cleansing
green revolution
22. Russian emperor
colony
czar (tsar)
Lend- Lease Act
world health organization
23. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
urdu
millet
guild
thermoluminescent dating
24. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
realpolitik
icon
Anabaptists
philosopher
25. A grant of land in medieval Europe
five pillars
fief
containment
geocentric theory
26. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
postdam conference
world trade organization
pariah
thermoluminescnce dating
27. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
intifada
mandate
DNA dating
Nuremberg trials
28. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
realpolitik
joint-stock company
umma
fresco
29. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
pariah
manga carta
constitutional monarchy
junkers
30. An object shaped by humans
treaty of tordesillas
artifact
Tamils
multinational corporation
31. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
operation sea lion
thermoluminescent dating
republic
geneva conference
32. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
serf
detente
nonalignment
edict of Nantes
33. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
Justinian Code
Sepoys
realpolitik
duma
34. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
iconoclastic controversy
Australopithecus
neolithic age
stele
35. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
karma
senate
civil service system
shogun
36. The Hebrew name for God
diaspora
consul
Yahweh
fascism
37. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
qanat
council of Trent
foraging
collective farming
38. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Hagia Sophia
stream of consciousness
mameduke
foraging
39. The production of manufactured goods in the homes of workers
human cloning
hominid
domestic system
zen Buddhism
40. Hellenistic philosophy that sought inner peace and please - defined as avoidance of pain
epicureanism
quinine
human cloning
collective farming
41. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
polytheism
third reich
vassal
urdu
42. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
radical
burgher
fresco
43. An independent state whose citizens are bound by a common cultural identity
Warsaw pact
collective farming
mystery religion
nation-stae
44. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
nongovernmental organization
mandate of heaven
chinampa
realpolitik
45. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
triangular trade
millet
trench warfare
Sepoys
46. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
functionalism
dowry death
mystery religion
great lap forward
47. A Latin American military dictator
consumerism
Yom Kippur
caudillo
missi dominici
48. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
parallel descent
gospel
Yalta Conference
space station
49. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
treaty of Versailles
dynasty
stateless society
hubris
50. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
purdah
duma
pastoral nomadism
Afrikaner