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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 political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
devshirme
imperialism
democratization
terra cotta
2. 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
communism
Holocaust
Boers
3. A grant of land in medieval Europe
social Darwinism
fief
stream of consciousness
Utopian socialist
4. A Muslim ruler
emir
hijra
Atlantic Charter
operation sea lion
5. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
consumerism
usury
zen Buddhism
surrealism
6. 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
civil rights movement
triangular trade
enlightenment
quipu
7. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
neolithic age
world health organization
Brahmin
plebeian
8. Warrior leaders in feudal Japan
caste
artifact
bushi
hijra
9. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
anthropology
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
paleolithic age
luftwaffe
10. 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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11. The worship of many gods
enclosure movement
social contract
Lend- Lease Act
polytheism
12. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
justification by faith
soviet
blitzkrieg
kamikaze
13. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
edict of Nantes
colony
patriarch
scientific revolution
14. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
protectorate
caravanserials
laissez-faire
four noble truths
15. 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
archaeology
communism
space probe
Bell Act
16. Member of elite class in ancient rome
qanat
geocentric theory
patrician
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
17. 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
natural selection
fascism
collective bargaining
factors of production
18. A custom of disembowelment carried out by the samurai as an honorable alternative to the acceptance of defeat
ayatollah
predestination
collective bargaining
seppuku
19. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
Reconquest
senate
fourteen points
Huguenots
20. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
shariah
glasnost
tragedy
fief
21. The Muslim name for God
Allah
collective farming
yin and yang
domino theory
22. Ethnically homogeneous nations under the Ottoman empire who were allowed a representative to serve as a voice before the sultan
millet
commune
fief
euro
23. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
silk roads
patriarch
kibbutzim
liberal
24. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
radiocarbon dating
Manhattan project
tribune
brinkmanship
25. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
urdu
missi dominici
stream of consciousness
geneva conference
26. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
utilitarian
ghetto
manor
shi
27. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
kowtow
island-hopping
economic imperialism
urdu
28. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
apartheid
pasteurization
reparation
epicureanism
29. A 1945 conference help at post damn - Germany in which Truman and Churchill met with Stalin to attempt to persuade him to abandon his policy of domination of the soviet satellite nations
postdam conference
DNA dating
apartheid
Neolithic Revolution
30. Territory under the dominion of the papacy
legitimacy
papal states
communism
daimyo
31. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
Nuremberg trials
sati
trench warfare
rotten borough
32. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
oracle bone
thermoluminescnce dating
third reich
Afrikaner
33. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
archeology
containment
hieroglyphics
world trade center
34. Peace plan for the post world war I world proposed by President Woodrow Wilson; its major points included the principle of self- determination and the establishment of an association of nations
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
ghetto
collective bargaining
fourteen points
35. The French assembly (1200s-1789) made up of clergy - nobles - and the common people
forbidden city
iconoclastic controversy
separation of powers
estates-general
36. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
civil disobedience
paleontologists
Dadaism
four modernizations
37. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
league of nations
Dar al- Islam
artifact
mestizo
38. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
island-hopping
hajj
mau mau
civil rights movement
39. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
propaganda
patriarchal
geocentric theory
functionalism
40. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
kamikaze
human cloning
messiah
surrealism
41. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
perestroika
four tigers
papal states
dynasty
42. An advocate of gradual political change
conservative
Zionism
totalitarian state
utilitarian
43. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
treaty of Versailles
plebeian
coalition
Atlantic Charter
44. A member of the middle class in medieval England
containment
theocracy
stem cell research
burgess
45. The scattering of specific ethnic groups throughout various parts of the world
caste
artifacts
pasteurization
diaspora
46. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
artifacts
Nuremberg trials
Taliban
commune
47. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
nicene creed
poliburo
conservative
plebeian
48. A government of three rulers
sati
triumvirate
harem
Dadaism
49. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
geneva conference
loess
cynicism
city-state
50. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
marathon
tree-ring dating
patriarch
parallel descent