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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 policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
animism
creole
militarism
Australopithecus
2. Currently know and the Commonwealth of Nation - an association of nations whose members accept the British monarch as a symbolic head; most member nations were at one time associated wit the British empire or with another current member nation
missi dominici
four tigers
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
British Commonwealth
3. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
soviet
containment
dissident
concession
4. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
kowtow
island-hopping
brinkmanship
u-boats
5. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
civilization
predestination
existentialism
extraterritorial rights
6. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
civilization
Deism
lebnsraum
Allah
7. A movement in the 1700s in england in which wealthy landowners purchased the lands of smaller farmers or took control of common areas and then fenced off their larger land holdings
Boers
Magyars
enclosure movement
soviet
8. Practice in some areas of India in which widows threw themselves onto the burning funeral pyre of their husband
people of the book
impressionism
sati
jazz
9. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
cuneiform
world health organization
proletariat
diocese
10. The organized elimination of an entire population group
theocracy
genocide
creole
conservative
11. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
democratization
caravel
stupa
Anabaptists
12. The Jewish day of atonement
helsinki accords
Magyars
pasteurization
Yom Kippur
13. Artistic and literary movement of the early 19th century that reflected an admiration for nature and and emphasis on individual thought and feelings
romanticism
major domo
predestination
Reconquest
14. The trans-Atlantic route of slaves from Africa to the Americas
guomindang
multinational corporation
middle passage
karma
15. The termination of slavery
intifada
abolition
legitimacy
appeasement
16. Letter of credit issued by Islamic banks; forerunner of modern checks
peninsular
ghazi
caste
sakk
17. 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
icon
vietnamization
fascism
collective farming
18. Copying human DNA sequence to create a new human being
Warsaw pact
nonalignment
people of the book
human cloning
19. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
domino theory
city-state
geneva conference
cubism
20. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
seppuku
philosopher
multinational corporation
island-hopping
21. Large estate in ancient Rome
helsinki accords
Balfour Declaration
Dadaism
latifundia
22. Arabic word meaning 'house of Islam.' referring to lands under the rule of Islam
city-state
Dar al- Islam
archaeology
guild
23. Muslim social and ethical law
economic imperialism
shariah
truncated pyramid
age grade
24. A monarch who claimed the right of complete authority over the government and the lives of his.her people
absolute monarch
triangular trade
five pillars
animism
25. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
nationalism
stream of consciousness
polytheism
czar (tsar)
26. Economic plans to increase industrial and productivity in the soviet union - china - and india
sunni
final solution
five-year plans
umma
27. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
mensheviks
socialism
nonalignment
reactionary
28. A statement if the christian faith issued in 325 CE stating that Jesus was the same time fully human and fully divine
Brahmin
nicene creed
mandate of heaven
enlightenment
29. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
green revolution
five-year plans
karma
separation of powers
30. A humanlike creature that walks upright
duma
hominid
patriarch
griot
31. Science developed by Sigmund Freud that focused on psychological rather than physiological causes of mental disorders
balance of power
multinational corporation
psychoanalysis
shah
32. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
iconoclastic controversy
caravel
functionalism
messiah
33. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
urdu
parallel descent
dissident
Sikhs
34. Ancient Egyptian picture writing
hieroglyphics
society of Jesus
Mongol Peace
chinampa
35. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
satellite nation
sati
treaty of tordesillas
mandate of heaven
36. Marriage to more than one wife
colony
constitutional monarchy
macadam road
polygamy
37. A cold war term referring to developing nations nonaligned with either the Soviet union or US
extraterritorial rights
third world
edict of Nantes
tree-ring dating
38. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
cynicism
time of troubles
burgher
Dar al- Islam
39. A business that was forerunner of the modern corporation in which investors pooled their resources and shared in the profits
mandate
joint-stock company
treaty of tordesillas
four tigers
40. Israeli communal agricultural settlements
theocracy
scorched- earth policy
Homo sapiens
kibbutzim
41. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
feudalism
balance of power
veto
economic imperialism
42. The worship of many gods
polytheism
commune
patrician
Tarah
43. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
tyrant
Yahweh
league of nations
protectorate
44. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
apostle
thermoluminescent dating
fresco
astrolabe
45. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
apprenticeship
czar (tsar)
middle passage
protectorate
46. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer.
Allah
commune
communism
estate
47. The technology associated with the application of robots
humanism
dowry death
robotics
ziggurat
48. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
Lend- Lease Act
league of nations
anthropology
British Commonwealth
49. A series of demonstration - boycotts - and violent attacks employed by Palestinians from 1987 onward to attract would attention to their desire for a Palestine homeland
intifada
stupa
triple alliance
militarism
50. In medieval Europe - the practice of charging interest
usury
specialization of labor
ethnic cleansing
encomienda