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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 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
checks and balances
emir
hellenistic culture
jazz
2. Russian Marxist group who desired radical change carried out by a small group of extremely committed revolutionaries
Holocaust
quinine
samurai
Bolsheviks
3. The power to prevent the execution of law
veto
estates-general
truncated pyramid
treaty of tordesillas
4. The movement of people from rural to urban areas
Tamils
Yalta Conference
internal migration
communism
5. A family of chemicals used in industry - air conditioning refrigeration and consumer products; one of the chief destroyers of the earth's ozone layer
absolute monarch
millet
Lend- Lease Act
chlorofluorocarbons
6. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
guild
stoicism
daimyo
laissez-faire
7. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
economic imperialism
surrealism
third reich
African National Congress
8. Organization founded in 1921 by black Africans to campaign for their rights
pasteurization
Manhattan project
African National Congress
council of Trent
9. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
Columbian exchange
league of nations
neolithic age
vietnamization
10. A floating plot of land created by the Aztecs to expand the agricultural capacity of Tenochtitlan
chinampa
quinine
chlorofluorocarbons
nongovernmental organization
11. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
predestination
third reich
junkers
Zionism
12. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
comedy
terra cotta
concession
pariah
13. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
qanat
paleolithic age
diocese
mandate of heaven
14. Negotiations between employees and employers for higher salaries and improved working conditions
u-boats
Yahweh
thermoluminescent dating
collective bargaining
15. The relocation of people across long distance or international borders
external migration
Neolithic Revolution
treaty of Versailles
creole
16. Hitler's 1941 invasion of the soviet union
operation Barbarossa
seppuku
stem cell research
balance of power
17. A widely spoken language among east Africans which is a blend of Arabic and the Bantu languages
senate
Swahili
intifada
functionalism
18. A mild 19th century movement in art and literature that focused on the ills of industrialism
moderate
ziggurat
legitimacy
realism
19. An instrument that allowed mariners to determine altitude by measuring the position of the stars -
guomindang
comedy
council of Trent
astrolabe
20. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
estate
triple alliance
purdah
African National Congress
21. A government of three rulers
triumvirate
thermoluminescnce dating
sunni
justification by faith
22. A campaign of violence against Jewish settlements in Russia in the late 19th century
pogram
dynasty
polygamy
ghetto
23. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
senate
papal states
rotten borough
nonalignment
24. A 1955 defense alliance organized by the Soviet Union - Czechoslovakia - Hungry - East Germany - Poland - Albania - Bulgaria - and Romania
diocese
Warsaw pact
Boers
poliburo
25. Government in which citizens are ruled by elected representatives
burgher
aristocracy
republic
communism
26. Pre- WWI pact amount Great Britain - France - and Russia
triple entente
guild
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
internal migration
27. A fatal flaw of overconfidence - often displayed by the main character in Greek tragedy
appeasement
hubris
Nuremberg trials
pariah
28. A nomadic people from central Asia who eventually settled in modern Hungary
artifacts
Balfour Declaration
Magyars
vietnamization
29. French Protestants
chivalry
soviet
Huguenots
qanat
30. Resolution passes by the US congress to authorize President Lyndon Johnson to send U.S troops into Vietnam
predestination
mensheviks
glasnost
gulf of tonkin resolution
31. A German emperor
kaiser
icon
Manhattan project
gospel
32. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
Ka'aba
code of Hammurabi
fief
Zionism
33. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation - especially by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
appeasement
shi
satellite nation
balance of power
34. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
mystery religion
messiah
bushi
polis
35. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
treaty of Versailles
legion
operation Barbarossa
Cultural Revolution
36. The belief that persons revive eternal salvation thought their faith in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world
justification by faith
Brahmin
satrap
mandate
37. Document singed by Englands King John in 1215 that limited the power of the kind and protected the rights of nobles
triangular trade
fascism
manga carta
pasteurization
38. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
sakk
tyrant
veto
psychoanalysis
39. The fight of muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE - and the first year of the Muslim calender
hijra
indulgence
external migration
coalition
40. A policy of advocating military power and maintaining a standing army
militarism
Atlantic Charter
city-state
shogun
41. A traditional form of Islam that supported the election of only the family members of Muhammad
qanat
push-pull factors
shia
quinine
42. Japanese name for the areas it occupied during World War II
internal migration
radiocarbon dating
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
ethnic cleansing
43. Thinking man; the species to which modern humans belong
reparation
Homo sapiens
Balfour Declaration
chlorofluorocarbons
44. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
kaiser
DNA dating
polytheism
aristocracy
45. Serious Greek drama dealing with the downfall of the main character
neolithic age
thermoluminescent dating
tragedy
monsoon
46. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
perestroika
coalition
push-pull factors
triumvirate
47. A belief that maintained that - although there was a god - the role of the deity was simply to set natural laws in motion
Deism
socialism
glasnost
rotten borough
48. A Roman Catholic Church court especially powerful in Spain and Italy during the Counter- reformation
intifada
separation of powers
Sikhs
Inquisition
49. A policy announced by the US President Truman in 1947 to offer military and economic aid to free nations treated by communism
Truman doctrine
polygamy
consul
Warsaw pact
50. The era of scientific thought in europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made - and accepted beliefs were questioned
scientific revolution
burqa
Huns
Yahweh