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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 government of three rulers
forbidden city
diaspora
triumvirate
mandate of heaven
2. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
containment
factors of production
strategic defense initiative
time of troubles
3. Inns that provided loading for caravan travelers across the Sahara Desert
caravanserials
intifada
urdu
mandate of heaven
4. An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.
mercantilism
external migration
burgher
internal migration
5. A 20th century style of music developed primarily by African American musicians
jazz
tragedy
Sepoys
four tigers
6. A woman who holds to the belief in equal rights and opportunities for both men and women
feminist
apostle
British Commonwealth
extraterritorial rights
7. An artistic movement in which paintings are characterized by a dreamlike quality
serf
kowtow
surrealism
Nuremberg trials
8. An artistic movement in the early 20th century that produces works that were meaningless and whimsical ()
Manhattan project
usury
Dadaism
Neo- Confucianism
9. The mass extermination of Jews and other civilians in Nazi Germany
mensheviks
Holocaust
chlorofluorocarbons
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
10. Government in the hands of the wealthy or the nobility
multinational corporation
parliament
aristocracy
cuneiform
11. An object shaped by humans
Utopian socialist
apostle
archaeology
artifact
12. A greak city-state
polis
glyph
jazz
enlightened despot
13. Triangular sail that permitted greater control of ships
Huguenots
Nuremberg trials
lateen sail
artifacts
14. Armies of soldiers in feudal Japan
Manhattan project
samurai
internal migration
domino theory
15. In medieval Europe - a merchant organization founded to regulate production standards and prices within specific trades
legitimacy
genocide
divine right of kings
guild
16. A philosophy of life's struggles according to the buddhist faith: everything in life is suffering; the cause of all suffering is people's desire; suffering can be ended by ending all desires; desires may be overcome by following the eightfold path
commercial revolution
ghetto
four noble truths
scientific revolution
17. A period of violence in Russia between 1598 and the choice of Mikhail Romanov as czar in 1613
time of troubles
tribune
umma
internal migration
18. WWII Japanese suiside piolets who flew their bomb-loaded planes into American ships; the Japanese mane a 'divine wind' that drove back Mongol invasions of the Japanese Islands in the 13th century
constitutional monarchy
latifundia
kamikaze
space probe
19. A German emperor
kaiser
Dadaism
multinational corporation
pastoral nomadism
20. A belief that spirits inhabit the features of the natural world
thermoluminescnce dating
fascism
Hagia Sophia
animism
21. Spacecraft that serves as an orbiting scientific type of work
hajj
qanat
space station
Cultural Revolution
22. In ancient Greece - a ruler who seized power and ruled with the sole authority
tyrant
psychoanalysis
rotten borough
messiah
23. A 1948 statement in which the United Nations declared that all human beings have rights to life - liberty - and security.
triple alliance
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
astrolabe
DNA dating
24. In Kenya - a secret organization of primarily Kikuyu farmers driven out of the farmland of the northern highlands by the British
constitutional monarchy
mau mau
devshirme
dowry death
25. A cohort group in which tribal members of a common age range shared experiences and responsibilities appropriate to that age group
age grade
Boers
suffrage
ziggurat
26. A united nations- sponsored agency whose goals are to improve world health and assist countries in promoting family- planning programs
sati
euro
world health organization
qanat
27. 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
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28. Payments for war damages imposed upon losing nation
loess
ziggurat
fascism
reparation
29. A trans- Atlantic trade route from Europe to Africa - then to the Americans - and then returning Rome
triangular trade
harem
caste
balance of power
30. The period in European history from about 1300 to 1600 in which a return to classical themes dominated art - literature - and education
nation-stae
Yom Kippur
triple entente
Renaissance
31. A linguistic blend of Arabic and Hindi which is currently the official language of Pakistan
laissez-faire
romanticism
urdu
green revolution
32. The Muslim community of faithful
usury
mensheviks
illuminated manuscript
umma
33. The study of humans as a species
anthropology
sunni
radical
pastoral nomadism
34. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
Dadaism
perestroika
league of nations
treaty of Versailles
35. Divine approval used to grant authority to Chinese dynasties
millet
chlorofluorocarbons
monsoon
mandate of heaven
36. A cooling of Cold War tensions - initiated during the administrations of U.S. President Nation and Soviet Premier Brezhnev
Manchaeism
Allah
kinship group
detente
37. In Hinduism - a person's good or evil deeps while on earth
karma
caudillo
bushi
helot
38. A compilation of Roman laws - legal treatises - and Byzantine laws passed after 534 that were codifies by the emperor Justinian
multinational corporation
space shuttle
Justinian Code
helot
39. A form of imperialism under which land and mineral rights were granted to private businesses with investments in colonial territories()
plebeian
mestizo
entrepreneurship
concession
40. Ancient Chinese class of scholars
four noble truths
shi
caravanserials
functionalism
41. Babylonian legal code that established governmental responsibility for criminal justice
code of Hammurabi
realism
neolithic age
third reich
42. An effort begun the 20th century to increase the global food supply by the use of pesticides - fertilizers and developments in disease-resistant crops
DNA dating
sakk
guest workers
green revolution
43. Military slave who fought in the armies of the Abbasides
existentialism
mameduke
polis
functionalism
44. A replacement for the encomienda system which allowed for the payment of wages to Native American workings in the Spanish American colonies
absolute monarch
council of Trent
repartamiento
seppuku
45. Magnificent Eastern Orthodox Church constructed in Constantinople by the emperor Justinian
Hagia Sophia
suffrage
city-state
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
46. Fine -yellow -windblown -slit
loess
sati
separation of powers
patriarch
47. Movement beginning in the 1890s - its main focus was the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine
space shuttle
Zionism
hubris
Sikhs
48. A society ruled by a number of equal kinship groups rather than by a central government
space station
hominid
geneva conference
stateless society
49. The german air force
parallel descent
luftwaffe
strategic defense initiative
vietnamization
50. A reform program initiated by US president Franklin Roosevelt to restore the US economy during the great depression
Nuremberg trials
new deal
scientific revolution
tribune