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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 soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
democratization
stupa
glasnost
u-boats
2. An organization whose chief aim is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in southwest america
Palestine liberation organization
kinship group
new economic policy
shogun
3. Workers who have migrated from developing countries to industrial ones to take advantage of employment opportunities and ultimately to stay as permanent residents
sphere of influence
eightfold path
guest workers
urdu
4. The german air force
appeasement
luftwaffe
benefice
human cloning
5. International organization dedicated to investigating human rights violations and providing humanitarian aid
astrolabe
human cloning
nongovernmental organization
tree-ring dating
6. A road developed by Scottish engineer John McAdam in which a pavement was created of small stones compacted together into layers
Neo- Confucianism
macadam road
manga carta
Warsaw pact
7. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
middle passage
loess
command economy
age grade
8. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
Balfour Declaration
czar (tsar)
economic imperialism
kamikaze
9. A multitiered pyramid that served as a temple in Sumer
island-hopping
hajj
ziggurat
emir
10. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
liberal
council of Trent
space shuttle
indulgence
11. Seasonal wind used by mariners to navigate the Indian Ocean
ziggurat
third world
Atlantic Charter
monsoon
12. Muslim social and ethical law
sphere of influence
concession
shariah
mobilization
13. 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
helsinki accords
utilitarian
enlightenment
intifada
14. Nationalist party founded in China by Sun Yician; after 1925 - headed by Jinang Jieshi
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Nuremberg trials
abolition
guomindang
15. According to Joan Calvin - the concept that God - before the beginning of the world - had chosen some people for heaven and others for hell
stream of consciousness
karma
predestination
dowry death
16. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
mercantilism
ghazi
jazz
Huns
17. An intellectual movement of the Renaissance period which emphasized reason and concerned itself with everyday human problems
romanticism
external migration
covenant
humanism
18. The wives and concubines of households in Africa - Arabia - or southwest Asia
natural selection
hijra
rotten borough
harem
19. Hellenistic philosophy calling for a return to simplicity and a rejection of materialism -;;
social contract
cynicism
code of Hammurabi
treaty of Versailles
20. A policy passed by the US congress in 1941 to allow President Roosevelt to lend or lease arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the USA
external migration
Columbian exchange
Lend- Lease Act
manor
21. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
paleolithic age
mandate of heaven
Holocaust
22. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
manga carta
one-child policy
hieroglyphics
satrap
23. A people whose religious philosophy blended Hinduism - Buddhism - and Sufism
bourgeoisie
dharma
communism
Sikhs
24. 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
dowry death
moderate
genocide
checks and balances
25. A painting done on wet plaster that was typical of the art of the Greeks and Romans of the European Renaissance
Reconquest
fresco
helsinki accords
laissez-faire
26. In Hinduism - the rules of one's caste; in Buddhism the doctrines of the faith
dharma
Tarah
Balfour Declaration
sati
27. A school of art in which the normal shapes of objects or persons are changed into geometric forms
consul
island-hopping
multinational corporation
cubism
28. The right of a dynasty to rule
world trade center
legitimacy
laissez-faire
capitalism
29. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
trench warfare
comedy
command economy
macadam road
30. The four economically successful areas of Hong Kong - Singapore - South Korea - and Taiwan
four tigers
Dar al- Islam
human cloning
Lend- Lease Act
31. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
realism
purdah
strategic defense initiative
pasteurization
32. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
civil disobedience
reparation
internal migration
Bosporus Strait
33. A region that is controlled by an outside power but is allowed to maintain its own government
protectorate
British Commonwealth
hubris
triple entente
34. The theory of the greek astronomer Ptolemy - stating that the earth was the center of the universe
nongovernmental organization
geocentric theory
new economic policy
Catholic reformation
35. According to Marx and Engels - the members of the working class
stem cell research
animism
proletariat
British Commonwealth
36. In ancient Rome - a military unit of 5 -000 to 6 -000 infantry
legion
aristocracy
patriarchal
propaganda
37. Segregated community (e.g Jewish)
legitimacy
ghetto
artifacts
commercial agriculture
38. An architectural school of the twentieth century which held that building should be constructed so that their design reflected their function
Atlantic Charter
radiocarbon dating
liberal
functionalism
39. The period between 1250 and 1350 -in which the Mongols restored the security of trade over the Silk Roads between Europe and Asia
space probe
Mongol Peace
yin and yang
blitzkrieg
40. U.S. post- World War II policy of forging alliances to assist vulnerable countries in their resistance against communism
separation of powers
sphere of influence
containment
liberal
41. The Muslim name for God
kaiser
constitutional monarchy
hominid
Allah
42. Lenin's policy to improve the soviet economy by permitting small private businesses
thermoluminescent dating
papal states
internal migration
new economic policy
43. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
space probe
bourgeoisie
world health organization
desalinization
44. Slave boy taken by the Ottoman Turks from conquered Christian territories
jainissary
radical
civil disobedience
vietnamization
45. 'Southern apes' ; hominids who emerged about four million years ago in southern and eastern Africa and were the first to make stone tools
guild
Australopithecus
caravel
Boers
46. Ancient Japanese religion centered around the veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
society of Jesus
shinto
ghazi
pariah
47. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
empire
external migration
euro
Tamils
48. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
sunni
Huguenots
league of nations
Tarah
49. Describes a male-dominated society
patriarchal
illuminated manuscript
five-year plans
treaty of tordesillas
50. South Africans of Dutch decent who were farmers
cubism
Deism
DNA dating
Boers