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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. German submarines
u-boats
shinto
epicureanism
Protestant Reformation
2. Term used by Muslims to refer to Christians and Jews - whom the Muslims respected for possessing a scripture
scorched- earth policy
sphere of influence
mestizo
people of the book
3. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
detente
missi dominici
four tigers
4. The Enlightenment concept that government is based upon an agreement in which the people relinquish their rights to a ruler in order to receive the protection offered by law and order
social contract
scorched- earth policy
guomindang
fresco
5. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
Atlantic Charter
Swahili
edict of Nantes
operation sea lion
6. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
guomindang
legitimacy
umma
collective farming
7. Program begun under the US President John Kennedy to send volunteer workers to developing nations to assist them in improving education - agricultural methods - sanitation - and other areas of need
Neo- Confucianism
peace crops
patrician
cuneiform
8. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
realism
internal migration
global village
Cyrillic alphabet
9. The worship of many gods
appeasement
polytheism
Bolsheviks
four tigers
10. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
age grade
nationalism
collective farming
burgess
11. Objects shaped by humans
militarism
desalinization
u-boats
artifacts
12. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
communism
junkers
samurai
yin and yang
13. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
genocide
helot
external migration
anthropology
14. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
council of Trent
stateless society
containment
Hagia Sophia
15. A conflict between papal and secular authority sparked by the use of icons in the Eastern Orthodox Church
soviet
nongovernmental organization
strategic defense initiative
iconoclastic controversy
16. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
concession
anthropology
helsinki accords
Manchaeism
17. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
island-hopping
plebeian
mobilization
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
18. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
shia
people of the book
repartamiento
kamikaze
19. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
fresco
republic
terra cotta
Yahweh
20. The belief in one god
shariah
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
monotheism
triple entente
21. A 1494 treaty that divided the land in the Americans between Portugal and Spain
armistice
treaty of tordesillas
constitutional monarchy
McDonaldization
22. Conference held in 1954 which divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel
helot
geneva conference
nongovernmental organization
constitutional monarchy
23. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
command economy
fresco
archeology
edict of Nantes
24. US WWII strategy of seizing control of key islands of strategic importance around Japanese stronghold in the Pacific
caravanserials
Cultural Revolution
space probe
island-hopping
25. A group of families that formed the basis of villages in some part of Africa
kinship group
entrepreneurship
apprenticeship
stupa
26. A method of measuring the amount of radiocarbon in fossilized material
radiocarbon dating
luftwaffe
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
geneva conference
27. A territory under the direct control of a stronger country
colony
usury
moderate
kinship group
28. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
enlightenment
latifundia
Anabaptists
daimyo
29. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
hubris
conservative
Boers
duma
30. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
mameduke
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
blitzkrieg
qanat
31. A Latin American military dictator
Balfour Declaration
Neolithic Revolution
caudillo
Bell Act
32. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
theory of evolution
qanat
tyrant
Swahili
33. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
harem
shah
Tamils
civil rights movement
34. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
stem cell research
manga carta
cynicism
stupa
35. 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
covenant
hellenistic culture
containment
Inquisition
36. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
glyph
umma
Manchaeism
urdu
37. A lavish community of the rulers of Ming China - forbidden to commoners
shinto
stupa
forbidden city
McDonaldization
38. The Hebrew name for God
Yahweh
natural selection
diaspora
league of nations
39. Business practices- including capitalism - join-stock companies - and mercantilism- that characterized- that characterized Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
shogun
commercial revolution
Bolsheviks
anthropology
40. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
vassal
harem
specialization of labor
protectorate
41. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
humanism
archeology
ghetto
emir
42. Also called the Jesuits - an organization founded in 1534 by Ignatius of Loyola to promote education - establish missions - and stop the spread of Protestantism
society of Jesus
Mongol Peace
Balfour Declaration
hellenistic culture
43. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
lateen sail
African National Congress
dissident
balance of power
44. A nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration toward the Roman empire in the 400s Ce
reactionary
mensheviks
Catholic reformation
Huns
45. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
archeology
domino theory
radiocarbon dating
legion
46. The study of humans as a species
quinine
indulgence
anthropology
mau mau
47. 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
consul
containment
suffrage
enclosure movement
48. Keys to right living in the Buddhist faith
eightfold path
ziggurat
space shuttle
radiocarbon dating
49. A government unit in which several countries or peoples are under the authority of one ruler
mystery religion
proletariat
nicene creed
empire
50. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
emir
command economy
Justinian Code
civil rights movement