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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. German submarines
karma
u-boats
one-child policy
blitzkrieg
2. Indian soldiers serving under the command of British army officers
comedy
dissident
creole
Sepoys
3. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
thermoluminescnce dating
treaty of tordesillas
conservative
geocentric theory
4. Economic theory proposed by Adam Smith which argued that government should not interfere with the natural laws of supply and demand
Catholic reformation
DNA dating
laissez-faire
civilization
5. A region in southeastern Europe currently composed of the republics of the former Yugoslavia - the European portion of Turkey - Greece - Albania - and Bulgaria
zen Buddhism
operation overlord
Balkans
nirvana
6. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
moderate
steppe
proletariat
bourgeoisie
7. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
hubris
Hagia Sophia
caravanserials
stupa
8. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
push-pull factors
balance of power
domestic system
commercial agriculture
9. The U.S. plan to develop an atomic bomb
checks and balances
Manhattan project
theocracy
edict of Nantes
10. The development of and use of skills in a specific type of work
paleontologists
Bosporus Strait
specialization of labor
plebeian
11. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
hubris
Magyars
peninsular
push-pull factors
12. A 1975 pledge to pratice detente and promote human rights that was signed by the Soviet Union - the Unites States - and 33 other nations
helsinki accords
abolition
triple alliance
fief
13. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
Lend- Lease Act
karma
animism
stream of consciousness
14. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
global village
Magyars
chivalry
comedy
15. 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
consumerism
people of the book
kibbutzim
16. A blend of Buddhism with some of the teachings of Daoism to form a faith dependent upon meditation and enlightenment
hubris
patrician
realism
zen Buddhism
17. 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
anthropology
civilization
comedy
intifada
18. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
realism
fresco
new economic policy
constitutional monarchy
19. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
illuminated manuscript
bushi
iconoclastic controversy
pasteurization
20. The Hebrew name for God
enlightened despot
existentialism
Yahweh
qanat
21. A blend of eastern and western culture characteristics (Greek - Egyptian - Persian - and Indian) in the period between the reign of Alexander the great and the Roman occupation of Greece
hellenistic culture
scientific revolution
missi dominici
five pillars
22. An advocate of philosophy which held that government actions and policies were useful only when they promoted the common good
utilitarian
Manhattan project
yin and yang
polytheism
23. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
apprenticeship
reparation
utilitarian
icon
24. Leading bishop pf the eastern orthodox church
African National Congress
patriarch
ziggurat
Tarah
25. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
domino theory
desalinization
fief
terra cotta
26. A Muslim ruler
emir
Renaissance
postdam conference
triumvirate
27. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
intifada
fourteen points
city-state
28. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
domino theory
geocentric theory
four modernizations
legitimacy
29. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
space shuttle
repartamiento
realism
containment
30. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
coalition
anthropology
Homo sapiens
satellite nation
31. 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
philosopher
extraterritorial rights
urdu
enclosure movement
32. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
Hagia Sophia
DNA dating
Balkans
external migration
33. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
desalinization
Huns
Palestine liberation organization
Bell Act
34. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
Homo sapiens
humanism
mandate of heaven
protectorate
35. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
five pillars
shia
legitimacy
code of Hammurabi
36. A member of the class in ancient Rome that included farmers artisans and merchants and comprised the majority of the population
major domo
steppe
justification by faith
plebeian
37. Studying fossil remains
pogram
paleontologists
dynasty
Ka'aba
38. 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
kamikaze
encomienda
protectorate
griot
39. Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
Cultural Revolution
functionalism
global village
Balfour Declaration
40. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
loess
Bell Act
gulf of tonkin resolution
mau mau
41. A European intellectual movement of the seventeenth and 18th centuries stating that human beings were basically good and could be further improved through education - and upholding reason as the key to truth
Bosporus Strait
brinkmanship
militarism
enlightenment
42. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
civil disobedience
theocracy
third reich
astrolabe
43. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
steppe
poliburo
joint-stock company
marshall plan
44. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
scientific revolution
legitimacy
mestizo
stoicism
45. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
social contract
civilization
space shuttle
Truman doctrine
46. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
glasnost
diocese
mestizo
Dadaism
47. The political - economic - or social domination of a strong country over another
veto
socialism
imperialism
Palestine liberation organization
48. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
new deal
scientific revolution
sati
cubism
49. In Buddhism - a state of perfect peace
stem cell research
hieroglyphics
oracle bone
nirvana
50. The Muslim name for God
psychoanalysis
domino theory
Allah
league of nations