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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 campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
Royal Road
pogram
intifada
jazz
2. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
mensheviks
samurai
hominid
justification by faith
3. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
patrician
loess
edict of Nantes
Yalta Conference
4. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
Huns
reparation
encomienda
hubris
5. The Hebrew name for God
tyrant
Yahweh
coalition
peace crops
6. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
theocracy
geocentric theory
guild
laissez-faire
7. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
mau mau
caravel
manga carta
patriarch
8. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
African National Congress
patrician
missi dominici
nicene creed
9. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
Huns
DNA dating
four noble truths
nonalignment
10. South African inhabitant of dutch ancestry
mystery religion
pogram
Afrikaner
Dadaism
11. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
third reich
guest workers
Tamils
philosopher
12. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
hellenistic culture
four noble truths
archeology
mestizo
13. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
messiah
nicene creed
dowry death
economic imperialism
14. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
containment
absolute monarch
balance of power
nongovernmental organization
15. President Nixon's plan for the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam while at the same time increasing the combat responsibilities of the south Vietnamese
daimyo
plebeian
people of the book
vietnamization
16. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
new deal
totalitarian state
specialization of labor
triple alliance
17. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
ghazi
satrap
Magyars
comedy
18. An African storyteller who passes on oral tradition
marshall plan
kaiser
vietnamization
griot
19. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
chivalry
diocese
samurai
mameduke
20. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
fourteen points
imperialism
Ka'aba
Australopithecus
21. A Latin American military dictator
Cyrillic alphabet
imperialism
Afrikaner
caudillo
22. A deep sense of pride in one's nation
strategic defense initiative
qanat
nationalism
mandate of heaven
23. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
mau mau
code of Hammurabi
separation of powers
council of Trent
24. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
dowry death
mau mau
colony
concession
25. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
predestination
trench warfare
world health organization
final solution
26. 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
reactionary
kamikaze
pastoral nomadism
postdam conference
27. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
world trade organization
lateen sail
artifacts
astrolabe
28. The 19th and early 20th century application of the theories of Charles Darwin to social science in a effort to create the notion that some races were superior to others
euro
chivalry
human cloning
social Darwinism
29. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
burqa
kibbutzim
fourteen points
pastoral nomadism
30. Agreement between the united states and the Philippines that granted the Filipinos war damages in exchange for the establishment of free trade between the Philippines and the United States
lebnsraum
blitzkrieg
purdah
Bell Act
31. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
Truman doctrine
patriarchal
age grade
Yalta Conference
32. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
utilitarian
forbidden city
kowtow
Palestine liberation organization
33. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
Tamils
middle passage
Zionism
feminist
34. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
human cloning
third world
sati
czar (tsar)
35. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
dictator
capitalism
functionalism
mestizo
36. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
four modernizations
daimyo
feminist
Inquisition
37. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
Protestant Reformation
millet
thermoluminescnce dating
robotics
38. A former colonial territory that is supervised by another country during its translation to an independent nation
shi
stem cell research
mandate
forbidden city
39. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
lateen sail
truncated pyramid
Utopian socialist
code of Hammurabi
40. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
oracle bone
mobilization
purdah
iconoclastic controversy
41. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
Atlantic Charter
Bosporus Strait
moderate
chivalry
42. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
bourgeoisie
four modernizations
protectorate
communism
43. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
Catholic reformation
island-hopping
triple entente
legion
44. In feudal Europe - a person who received from his lord a grant of land in exchange for loyalty and military or agricultural services
treaty of tordesillas
icon
vassal
kinship group
45. Ancient and medieval trade routes that linked china to the Mediterranean world
silk roads
kamikaze
stele
mandate of heaven
46. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
patrician
empire
psychoanalysis
Utopian socialist
47. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
monotheism
dowry death
capital
Nuremberg trials
48. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
concession
city-state
five-year plans
factors of production
49. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
psychoanalysis
daimyo
moderate
African National Congress
50. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
Catholic reformation
militarism
dissident
Palestine liberation organization