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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 guild-sponsored system of training craftsmen
emir
apprenticeship
imperialism
social Darwinism
2. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
treaty of tordesillas
Ka'aba
collective bargaining
nongovernmental organization
3. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
new economic policy
ziggurat
stoicism
missi dominici
4. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
republic
legion
apprenticeship
Boers
5. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
Sepoys
radiocarbon dating
time of troubles
hellenistic culture
6. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
commercial revolution
five-year plans
nicene creed
enlightenment
7. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR - British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill - and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war
monotheism
final solution
Yalta Conference
league of nations
8. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
mestizo
Mongol Peace
triple entente
treaty of Versailles
9. Campaign carried out bu the Chinese Red Guards between 1966 and 1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao's leadership
Cultural Revolution
Cyrillic alphabet
nationalism
Australopithecus
10. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
people of the book
griot
sati
reactionary
11. A NY building complex housing numerous companies and organizations dealing with global trade; a target of the 2001 terrorist attack on the US
world trade center
Sikhs
league of nations
bushi
12. 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
collective bargaining
covenant
Atlantic Charter
samurai
13. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
consumerism
mandate
Dadaism
constitutional monarchy
14. The most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies - the belief that individuals had a responsibility to aid others and lead virtuous lives
stoicism
peace crops
world trade organization
Magyars
15. Objects shaped by humans
quipu
artifacts
astrolabe
poliburo
16. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
appeasement
external migration
people of the book
cuneiform
17. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
sati
five pillars
genocide
new deal
18. A spacecraft that carries instruments capable of transmitting to earth photographs and information about the planets
guest workers
mensheviks
chinampa
space probe
19. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
homeland
Zionism
Bolsheviks
archeology
20. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
hellenistic culture
sati
treaty of Versailles
push-pull factors
21. A follower of Jesus who helped spread his teachings -
social Darwinism
apostle
veto
new deal
22. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
council of Trent
sati
Homo sapiens
silk roads
23. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
external migration
cubism
Renaissance
four tigers
24. Religious title of a conservative Islamic leader in Iran
ayatollah
space probe
macadam road
triple alliance
25. A method of dating flint and clay objects by measuring the amount of electrons released when the subject is heated
thermoluminescnce dating
hominid
Kellogg-Briand Pact
functionalism
26. 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
edict of Nantes
fourteen points
operation overlord
dowry death
27. A 'lighting war' in which initial rapid surprise attacks by aircraft are followed by massive attacks of group forces - as in the 1939 German invasion of Poland
reactionary
domestic system
Deism
blitzkrieg
28. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
legitimacy
Bolsheviks
Nuremberg trials
sati
29. French Protestants
checks and balances
coalition
Huguenots
karma
30. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
operation sea lion
colony
neolithic age
dictator
31. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
stream of consciousness
loess
Bolsheviks
laissez-faire
32. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
Nuremberg trials
mameduke
Columbian exchange
sphere of influence
33. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
consumerism
emir
homeland
Hagia Sophia
34. A warrior for islam
nationalism
European Union
separation of powers
ghazi
35. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
command economy
Cyrillic alphabet
third world
peninsular
36. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
neolithic age
cubism
separation of powers
final solution
37. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
constitutional monarchy
capital
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
truncated pyramid
38. A member of the middle class in medieval England
sphere of influence
burgess
fresco
Yalta Conference
39. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
civilization
theory of evolution
natural selection
mameduke
40. In the first half of the 19th century - an intellectual who believed in human equality and in practicing cooperation in industry
treaty of Versailles
peninsular
Utopian socialist
suffrage
41. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
rotten borough
forbidden city
treaty of tordesillas
duma
42. Beginning the the 15th century - the exchange of plants livestock - disease - and slaves between the eastern and western hemispheres
balance of power
Columbian exchange
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Ka'aba
43. An Enlightenment-era monarch who embraced reform and ruled with the welfare of his or her subjects in mind
indulgence
forbidden city
glasnost
enlightened despot
44. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
dissident
perestroika
samurai
45. 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
Warsaw pact
lebnsraum
age grade
kamikaze
46. Two-dimensional religious images used by Eastern Christians in their celebrations and devotions
patriarch
world trade organization
icon
pogram
47. 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
social contract
code of Hammurabi
devshirme
scientific revolution
48. A Japanese feudal lord who had a private army of samurai serving under him
radiocarbon dating
existentialism
hijra
daimyo
49. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
zen Buddhism
cynicism
marshall plan
creole
50. A member of the middle class in medieval Germany n. ()
burgher
Atlantic Charter
bushi
mestizo