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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 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
messiah
coalition
purdah
2. The politics of reality put into practice by Otto von Bismarck
commune
hubris
gospel
realpolitik
3. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
Renaissance
peace crops
Brahmin
chinampa
4. The termination of slavery
Zionism
commercial revolution
millet
abolition
5. Term referring to those in French Legislative Assembly whose stand on political issues was neither radical nor conservative
shia
code of Hammurabi
moderate
push-pull factors
6. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
illuminated manuscript
humanism
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
7. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
shah
urdu
treaty of Versailles
hijra
8. Idea prevalent during the Cold War period that - if one nation fell to communism - neighboring nations would likewise fall
multinational corporation
domino theory
push-pull factors
tribune
9. A 1 -600 mile communication route in ancient Persia
Royal Road
Cultural Revolution
anthropology
archaeology
10. An agreement singed in 1968 by several nations who pledged to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons
radical
five pillars
Manhattan project
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
11. The belief in one god
monotheism
absolute monarch
republic
fresco
12. 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
city-state
forbidden city
great lap forward
mameduke
13. In India - public isolation of women from non-family members
reactionary
purdah
communism
factors of production
14. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
coalition
steppe
one-child policy
burgher
15. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
surrealism
golden mean
apartheid
British Commonwealth
16. Russian Parliament
chinampa
duma
stem cell research
artifacts
17. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
plebeian
hominid
dynasty
emir
18. 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
fourteen points
urdu
council of Trent
devshirme
19. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
geocentric theory
shogun
civilization
enlightened despot
20. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
mandate of heaven
radiocarbon dating
world health organization
appeasement
21. A humanlike creature that walks upright
five-year plans
hominid
collective bargaining
anthropology
22. The Muslim community of faithful
quinine
joint-stock company
entrepreneurship
umma
23. Measures radioactivity released from electrons in heated flint and clay allowing for dating of objects made from these two materials
Catholic reformation
dowry death
Balkans
thermoluminescent dating
24. Reserved territory in the least desirable area of South Africa set aside for black residents
commercial revolution
homeland
five-year plans
empire
25. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
mercantilism
shariah
kinship group
archeology
26. In the 16th century Roman Catholic Church - a paper whose purchase guaranteed the buyer the forgiveness of sins
patriarchal
social contract
indulgence
Mongol Peace
27. A Roman Catholic council convened in 1545 to examine the Church's teachings
socialism
Tamils
council of Trent
suffrage
28. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
dharma
realpolitik
paleontologists
Tamils
29. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
Homo sapiens
concession
world trade center
anthropology
30. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
caravanserials
poliburo
imperialism
encomienda
31. Early 20th- century Marxist group in Russia that wanted to engage popular support for revolution in Russia
apprenticeship
philosopher
Swahili
mensheviks
32. An Islamic fundamentalist group that gained control of Afghanistan in 1997
creole
kowtow
intifada
Taliban
33. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
Zionism
Boers
hijra
mandate
34. The german air force
luftwaffe
hieroglyphics
four modernizations
absolute monarch
35. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
anthropology
treaty of Versailles
moderate
sunni
36. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
caudillo
proletariat
patrician
anthropology
37. The third empire of Germany established in the 1930s by Adolph HItler
abolition
third reich
pasteurization
hajj
38. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
hellenistic culture
gulf of tonkin resolution
Justinian Code
stream of consciousness
39. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
island-hopping
psychoanalysis
Balfour Declaration
green revolution
40. Soviet reform initiated in 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev by which the political system was moderated to allow votes to choose from a slate of candidates
patriarchal
democratization
hubris
major domo
41. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
Brahmin
bourgeoisie
monotheism
extraterritorial rights
42. Offering concessions to an aggressive ruler or nation in order to avoid conflict and/or war
appeasement
artifact
nicene creed
vietnamization
43. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
nicene creed
league of nations
vietnamization
kibbutzim
44. The ability to organize and utilize the factors of production to realize profits
entrepreneurship
anthropology
nirvana
quipu
45. Also called the counter- reformation - a period of renewal with in the Roman Catholic Church as a response to the protestant reformation
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Yom Kippur
Catholic reformation
iconoclastic controversy
46. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
empire
internal migration
bushi
major domo
47. Studying fossil remains
paleontologists
guild
operation overlord
fief
48. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
philosopher
triple entente
terra cotta
society of Jesus
49. A government characterized by the rule of only one party whose beliefs support the welfare of the sate above all else
Manhattan project
totalitarian state
enlightenment
Huguenots
50. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
emir
millet
gospel
marshall plan