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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 region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
command economy
protectorate
sati
terra cotta
2. The Allied invasion of Normandy in the northwestern France on June 6th 1994
Holocaust
harem
operation overlord
caravel
3. A privilege that exempts foreign residents from the laws of the nation in which they are residing
Shiva
extraterritorial rights
icon
apartheid
4. Objects shaped by humans
containment
Cyrillic alphabet
artifacts
island-hopping
5. Goals issued by China's Deng Xiaoping that included changes in industry - agriculture - defense - and science and technology
four modernizations
collective farming
hominid
Holocaust
6. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
colony
gulf of tonkin resolution
detente
benefice
7. An economic system in which the means of production belong to the public and are operated for the common welfare
five pillars
Ka'aba
socialism
polytheism
8. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
nonalignment
mestizo
laissez-faire
Protestant Reformation
9. A ceasefire agreement
green revolution
qanat
armistice
radiocarbon dating
10. A humanlike creature that walks upright
poliburo
fourteen points
triple entente
hominid
11. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
Inquisition
papal states
fascism
griot
12. 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
Inquisition
operation Barbarossa
oracle bone
13. Muslim social and ethical law
Homo sapiens
shah
shariah
kaiser
14. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
nongovernmental organization
robotics
homeland
senate
15. A mid-19th century artistic movement that reacted against realism by portraying subjects as they appeared to the artist at a given moment in time
impressionism
natural selection
Neolithic Revolution
reactionary
16. A Latin American military dictator
Anabaptists
samurai
four tigers
caudillo
17. A literally technique by psychoanalysis that reveals the character's thoughts and feelings a the moment in which they occur
nationalism
stream of consciousness
Atlantic Charter
civil disobedience
18. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
existentialism
monsoon
Manchaeism
civilization
19. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
strategic defense initiative
Holocaust
manga carta
Deism
20. A US program of economic assistance to European nations to aid them in restoring their economies and societies after WWII
guomindang
illuminated manuscript
marshall plan
natural selection
21. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
epicureanism
reparation
quinine
Boers
22. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
great lap forward
tree-ring dating
appeasement
aristocracy
23. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
moderate
stupa
five pillars
realpolitik
24. A member of the middle class in medieval England
burgess
kibbutzim
Neo- Confucianism
duma
25. A grant of land in medieval Europe
fief
Bell Act
factors of production
liberal
26. A corporation which constructs factories in a number of countries in order to capitalize upon inexpensive raw materials and cheap labor in those countries
Manhattan project
multinational corporation
appeasement
realism
27. The killing of unwanted wives in India by which the husband douses the wife with kerosene - sets her on fire - and then reports the incident as a cooking accident
illuminated manuscript
society of Jesus
comedy
dowry death
28. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
imperialism
umma
satellite nation
czar (tsar)
29. A shrine which contained the Black stone - a relic of the polytheistic beliefs of the early Arabs and later the destination of the Muslim hajj
30. A 1598 decree that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
Kellogg-Briand Pact
new deal
edict of Nantes
31. Hindu god portrayed as both creator and destroyer
dowry death
radiocarbon dating
Shiva
civil service system
32. In feudal Japan - a superior military leader who ruled in the name of the emperor
shogun
monsoon
Warsaw pact
Ka'aba
33. According to Marx and Engels - the middle class; in prerevolutionary France - a portion of the Third Estate comprised of a middle class of artisans and merchants
shah
bushi
bourgeoisie
samurai
34. 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
enlightenment
jazz
league of nations
Swahili
35. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
poliburo
luftwaffe
global village
Bolsheviks
36. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
city-state
natural selection
triple entente
radical
37. A method of dating artifacts by determining the rate of change in DNA
radiocarbon dating
DNA dating
apprenticeship
pariah
38. A sole ruler with absolute power
concession
dictator
Huguenots
DNA dating
39. This theory stated that animals could evolve from other animals in order to adapt to their environments. This theory was not widely accepted for it could possibly account for humans which would defeat the whole purpose of creationism
oracle bone
theory of evolution
glyph
blitzkrieg
40. The german air force
Truman doctrine
luftwaffe
mercantilism
time of troubles
41. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
anthropology
polis
code of Hammurabi
mystery religion
42. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
league of nations
geocentric theory
intifada
external migration
43. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
totalitarian state
creole
DNA dating
millet
44. Policy of murder and other violent acts directed against a particular ethnic group by another; initially applied to the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia
enlightened despot
joint-stock company
ethnic cleansing
hominid
45. A trapezoid pyramid typical of architecture of pre- Columbia Mesoamerica and South America as well as early Polynesian societies
mandate
creole
ethnic cleansing
truncated pyramid
46. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
new economic policy
proletariat
gulf of tonkin resolution
cynicism
47. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
Bolsheviks
veto
shinto
fief
48. A 26 mile race
emir
postdam conference
philosopher
marathon
49. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
British Commonwealth
quinine
concession
sakk
50. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
creole
samurai
Manchaeism