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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 Muslim name for God
polytheism
Allah
collective bargaining
abolition
2. The 16th century reform movement in the christian church that emphasized salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone
treaty of tordesillas
Protestant Reformation
junkers
Royal Road
3. Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev in which the soviet people were permitted to own small private businesses
kibbutzim
predestination
perestroika
Columbian exchange
4. Those conditions that compel individuals to leave their country and those that pull persons to another location
cuneiform
push-pull factors
Protestant Reformation
final solution
5. Notes the chronological sequence of th annual growth rings in trees
satrap
kamikaze
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
tree-ring dating
6. Those factors essential to initialization: land - labor - capital - and entrepreneurship
factors of production
proletariat
peace crops
five-year plans
7. Money - equipment - and materials used to produce more wealth through investments in businesses and factories
Atlantic Charter
Yahweh
capital
commercial revolution
8. A ballistic missile with the capacity to travel from one continent to another
tree-ring dating
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
mau mau
burqa
9. A pattern of inheritance in which the daughter inherit from their mother and sons from their father
command economy
parallel descent
entrepreneurship
nuclear non-proliferation treaty
10. The study of cells that have the capacity to divide in a culture and produce specialized cells
McDonaldization
stem cell research
forbidden city
Bolsheviks
11. The process - lasting from about 100 to 1492 - by which Christians drove the Muslims from Spain
city-state
Reconquest
Huguenots
space station
12. Neutrality of developing nations during the cold war
internal migration
helot
nonalignment
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
13. A temporary alliance of a number of small political parties
paleolithic age
coalition
latifundia
Australopithecus
14. One who pursues the meaning of truth
burqa
island-hopping
colony
philosopher
15. The governing committee of the communist party in the USSR
poliburo
time of troubles
Yahweh
samurai
16. An organization established in 1995 to supervise free trade
iconoclastic controversy
McDonaldization
world trade organization
society of Jesus
17. Post WWII trials held in Nuremberg - Germany to try Nazi leader charged with war crimes
pastoral nomadism
stoicism
Nuremberg trials
sati
18. A movement of the 1950's and 1960's in the united states to alter laws in order to eliminate segregation for African Americans and to assure them the right to vote
radiocarbon dating
ziggurat
civil rights movement
divine right of kings
19. Hitler's plan against great Britain - which began with the bombing of Britain in the summer of 1940
council of Trent
veto
time of troubles
operation sea lion
20. The branch of Islam that supported the authority of the earliest caliphs
archeology
sunni
sati
Atlantic Charter
21. The study of cultures through examination of their artifacts
five pillars
mandate of heaven
peace crops
archeology
22. The period between 8000 BCE and approximately 3000 BCE; also known as the New stone age
edict of Nantes
Warsaw pact
neolithic age
third reich
23. The code of conduct required of a knight in feudal Europe
silk roads
chivalry
guomindang
Neolithic Revolution
24. A grant of land in the Spanish American colonies that carried with it the right to exploit the Native Americans living on the land
world health organization
containment
encomienda
karma
25. Control of a region by business interests rather than by an outside government
Manhattan project
mercantilism
economic imperialism
shinto
26. Large farms owned by the government in which profits are shared by all farmers
artifacts
collective farming
trench warfare
shia
27. An untouchable of person whose status is below that of the Hindu castes
yin and yang
theory of relativity
internal migration
pariah
28. Policy of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to eliminate the memory of Josef Stalin and his policies in the Soviet Union
desalinization
samurai
zen Buddhism
mameduke
29. The symbol used as part of a writing system
glyph
shariah
Yahweh
romanticism
30. Pre- WWI military pact among Germany - Austria-Hungry - and Italy
comedy
lebnsraum
green revolution
triple alliance
31. Chinese concept of balance in nature represented by male assertiveness and female submission
commune
yin and yang
extraterritorial rights
nongovernmental organization
32. In the early 19th century - a term suffering to those Europeans who favored granting increased power to elect assemblies
liberal
luftwaffe
humanism
artifacts
33. Developed by Louis Pasteur - the process of destroying bacteria in milk and other liquids
shogun
third reich
pasteurization
loess
34. Idea proposed by the enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu in which the powers of government are divided among different branches
euro
chlorofluorocarbons
third reich
separation of powers
35. The view of the earth as one human community in which people of all cultures share common needs - wants - and experiences
global village
dissident
factors of production
sati
36. A term used to denote those European decent who were born in French or Spanish colonies in the Americas
neolithic age
radical
creole
chinampa
37. A bone or shell used by Chinese to determine the will of goals
oracle bone
shogun
seppuku
constitutional monarchy
38. French Protestants
sakk
Huguenots
desalinization
latifundia
39. A person in favor of returning to the status quo
hellenistic culture
apartheid
reactionary
dissident
40. Hebrew word meaning 'the anointed': in Judaism the promised deliverer of the Jews; in Christianity - a term referring to Jesus
reactionary
containment
social Darwinism
messiah
41. Philosophy that holds that life in itself has no meaning and that each person deiced the meaning of life for himself or herself
oracle bone
Reconquest
existentialism
dharma
42. In 19th century England - a voting districts without residents
brinkmanship
command economy
rotten borough
millet
43. The termination of slavery
abolition
Reconquest
mau mau
capital
44. A manuscript copied by hand by medieval monks - who enhanced its beauty with elaborate lettering and detailed pictures
balance of power
sati
illuminated manuscript
push-pull factors
45. Greek idea of balance - moderation - and proportion
golden mean
civilization
world trade organization
u-boats
46. A culture characterizes by advance cites - specialized workers - complex institutions - a system of writing or alternate form of record keeping - and advanced technology
apostle
civilization
Ka'aba
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
47. A ritualized bow required of all visitors to the Chinese court
kowtow
mestizo
tree-ring dating
archaeology
48. The strategic narrow body of water between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
collective farming
apartheid
psychoanalysis
Bosporus Strait
49. A Hellenistic religion that involved faith in eastern deities and the promise of eternal life to believers
mau mau
fresco
hominid
mystery religion
50. The period from 2 -500 -000 to about 8000 BCE; also called the old stone age
latifundia
daimyo
helot
paleolithic age