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SAT Subject Test: World History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
Nuremberg trials
homeland
Protestant Reformation
diocese
2. An advocate of gradual political change
conservative
chivalry
operation Barbarossa
gulf of tonkin resolution
3. A soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhall Gorbchev emphasizing openness in the sharing of information and ideas
shah
caravanserials
communism
glasnost
4. Local council of peasants - laborers - and soldiers organized by Russian revolutionaries
thermoluminescnce dating
serf
communism
soviet
5. Movement of a military force to an area in conflict
Yahweh
domestic system
patrician
mobilization
6. Economic system in which decisions are in the hands of the government rather than the consumer
vassal
command economy
space shuttle
psychoanalysis
7. Form of drama developed by the Greeks that often satirizes a society
comedy
theory of relativity
devshirme
appeasement
8. Government controlled by religious rulers or by a ruler considered divine
Bosporus Strait
middle passage
treaty of tordesillas
theocracy
9. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
hajj
anthropology
Yahweh
tyrant
10. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
human cloning
proletariat
tree-ring dating
green revolution
11. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
four modernizations
mandate of heaven
nationalism
anthropology
12. Periodic migration in order to locate grazing lands from domesticated herds
pastoral nomadism
peninsular
Balkans
collective farming
13. 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
polis
separation of powers
impressionism
Bosporus Strait
14. Hitler's systematic elimination of the Jews and other populations he considered inferior
final solution
Hagia Sophia
Zionism
creole
15. A South African policy in which the races were separated by law
archaeology
apprenticeship
apartheid
creole
16. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
cuneiform
Sepoys
liberal
legitimacy
17. A policy assuring that no one nation becomes powerful enough to threaten the status of another
balance of power
radiocarbon dating
Catholic reformation
Cultural Revolution
18. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
feminist
nonalignment
pariah
polis
19. A blend of Confucianism and Buddhism that emphasized traditional Chinese values of self-discipline - family loyalty - and obedience to authority
Neo- Confucianism
plebeian
Bell Act
shogun
20. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
mau mau
tyrant
mercantilism
chivalry
21. Agriculture carried out on large scale to produce crops for sale to competitive global markets
factors of production
Atlantic Charter
burqa
commercial agriculture
22. A government in which the monarch's power is limited by law
constitutional monarchy
specialization of labor
parliament
world trade center
23. A Protestant Church that stressed adult baptism and the separation of church and state
anthropology
Anabaptists
sakk
entrepreneurship
24. Hard -reddish-brown clay used in pottery
apostle
tree-ring dating
thermoluminescnce dating
terra cotta
25. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
existentialism
appeasement
samurai
middle passage
26. A social class in medieval and pre-revolutionary France
zen Buddhism
code of Hammurabi
estate
joint-stock company
27. A blend some of the beliefs of Zoroastianism - Buddhism - and Christianity which held that life was a struggle between good and evil
ghazi
civil service system
triumvirate
Manchaeism
28. An association of world nations created by the treaty of Versailles after WWI
Huguenots
estate
league of nations
treaty of Versailles
29. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
balance of power
caravanserials
Anabaptists
economic imperialism
30. The Hebrew name for God
existentialism
operation overlord
Yahweh
foraging
31. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
satrap
animism
astrolabe
operation sea lion
32. The major of the palace; the most powerful person in Gaul by the early 18th century
capitalism
tyrant
democratization
major domo
33. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
messiah
dictator
four modernizations
creole
34. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
Warsaw pact
illuminated manuscript
apprenticeship
mercantilism
35. Head-to-toe garment with a mesh- like panel covering face; required attire for women under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by other Islamic societies
space shuttle
liberal
jazz
burqa
36. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
new economic policy
justification by faith
nongovernmental organization
lebnsraum
37. A member of French Legislative Assembly who wanted immediate - drastic change in French government
radical
foraging
world trade center
empire
38. The people of southern India who speak the Tamil language
Tamils
ghazi
nationalism
guomindang
39. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
patriarchal
triangular trade
hellenistic culture
Inquisition
40. The Muslim community of faithful
hieroglyphics
Zionism
umma
four noble truths
41. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
league of nations
Taliban
bushido
astrolabe
42. Great shrines of stone constructed to house relics of the Buddha
umma
stupa
geneva conference
Renaissance
43. The patrician assembly that approves all major decisions in republican Rome
poliburo
collective bargaining
senate
communism
44. An almost treeless flat grassland stretching across central Asia and eastern Europe
kaiser
brinkmanship
steppe
imperialism
45. A tactic of burning in the path of an invading army
scorched- earth policy
Magyars
civilization
society of Jesus
46. 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
tree-ring dating
ghazi
peace crops
lebnsraum
47. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
devshirme
economic imperialism
manga carta
ayatollah
48. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
time of troubles
polis
natural selection
ethnic cleansing
49. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
operation overlord
commercial agriculture
Tarah
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
50. Person in colonial Spanish America who was mixes European and Native American heritage
capitalism
radiocarbon dating
mestizo
league of nations