MTTC HISTORY EXAM QUESTIONS
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Neolithic revolution/new stone age - ✔✔A prehistoric period that began about 8000
B.C. and in some areas ended as early as 3000 B.C., during which people learned to
polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals - also called the New
Stone Age
3500-3000 BC daily life - ✔✔masons and smiths become craftsman. Wheeled vehicles in
use. Linen is produced in middle east. Economy of sumerian cities based on agriculture.
Plowing, raking, manuring in Egypt
Sumer - ✔✔A historical region in mesopotamia, currently Iraq. Settle in Babylon in
4000-3500 bc. Writing done on clay. Copper alloys used by egyptians and sumerians;
melting of gold and silver.
The Hittites - ✔✔Indo-european tribes from asia minor, join together in one single
kingdom in 2000-1500 bc. They attack babylon.masters of horse drawn carriages and
archery
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,Shang dynasty - ✔✔(1766-1122 BCE) The Chinese dynasty that rose to power due to
bronze metalurgy, war chariots, and a vast network of walled towns whose recognized
this dynasty as the superior. First seven periods of Chinese literature.
pharoh - ✔✔god-king in Egypt 3000-2500 bc
Sage Kings - ✔✔3000-2500 bc. beginning of their dynasty in china
zhou dynasty - ✔✔2500-2300BC, (1050BC-400BC) Longest dynasty in Chinese history.
Established a new political order with king at the highest level, then lords and warriors
and then peasants.
Irrigation system - ✔✔In Egypt utilizes the Nile river floods in year 2000-1500 bc
India's four basic elements - ✔✔earth, air, fire, water. 2000-1500 bc
Babylon 2000-1500 bc - ✔✔becomes capital of the empire due to the shift in the course of
Euphrates River. Trade routes spread from eastern mediterranean through Europe.
Horses are used to draw vehicles.
Hammurabi - ✔✔King of Babylonia 1900 BC. His code defines criminal laws and lines
of inheritance.
indus culture - ✔✔At its peak, the Indus Civilization may have had a population of
over five million. Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley developed new
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,techniques in handicraft. extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to
Pakistan and northwest India
king saul - ✔✔First King of the 12 tribes of the Hebrews. 1000 bc
daily life 1000-900 bc - ✔✔beginning of mass migration of germanic tribes
aryan culture - ✔✔nomadic and warlike people who migrated into India and
suppressed the Indus people, developed sanscript, worshiped many gods, started the
caste system (by color)
african Kush kingdom - ✔✔The Kingdom of Kush or Kush was an ancient African
kingdom situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in
what is now the Republic of Sudan. stablished after the Bronze Age collapse and the
disintegration of the New Kingdom of Egypt, it was centered at Napata in its early
phase. After king Kashta ("the Kushite") invaded Egypt in the 8th century BC, the
Kushite kings ruled as Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
olmec civilization - ✔✔modern day Mexico; 1200 BC, coastal people, no major river,
agricultural economy (maize, beans and squash); cities were ceremonial centers -
temples, altars, pyramids, tombs for rulers; sacrifices, 1st writing system in the
Americas (900 B.C.)
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, Major population movement 300-500 - ✔✔The first phase, from 300 to 500, saw the
movement of Germanic, Sarmatian and Hunnic tribes and ended with the settlement of
these peoples in the areas of the former Western Roman Empire.
Major population movement 500-900 - ✔✔Slavic, Turkic and other tribes on the move,
re-settling in Eastern Europe and gradually making it predominantly Slavic. Moreover,
more Germanic tribes migrated within Europe during this period, including the
Lombards (to Italy), and the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
bronze age - ✔✔a period in human history, beginning around 3000 B.C. in some areas,
during which people began using bronze, rather than copper or stone, to fashion tools
and weapons
4000 bc -1000 bc culture - ✔✔use of plows, written records, and monotheistic religions.
social and political features 1000-300 bc - ✔✔phoenicians continue westward expansion
into Cyprus and western
Major figures 1000-300 bc - ✔✔...
contributions of ancient greek civilization 1000-300 bc - ✔✔Classical Greece began with
the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by
Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western
end of the Mediterranean Sea had a powerful influence on the Roman EmpireThe city-
states formed themselves into two leagues; the Achaean League (including Thebes,
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Neolithic revolution/new stone age - ✔✔A prehistoric period that began about 8000
B.C. and in some areas ended as early as 3000 B.C., during which people learned to
polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals - also called the New
Stone Age
3500-3000 BC daily life - ✔✔masons and smiths become craftsman. Wheeled vehicles in
use. Linen is produced in middle east. Economy of sumerian cities based on agriculture.
Plowing, raking, manuring in Egypt
Sumer - ✔✔A historical region in mesopotamia, currently Iraq. Settle in Babylon in
4000-3500 bc. Writing done on clay. Copper alloys used by egyptians and sumerians;
melting of gold and silver.
The Hittites - ✔✔Indo-european tribes from asia minor, join together in one single
kingdom in 2000-1500 bc. They attack babylon.masters of horse drawn carriages and
archery
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,Shang dynasty - ✔✔(1766-1122 BCE) The Chinese dynasty that rose to power due to
bronze metalurgy, war chariots, and a vast network of walled towns whose recognized
this dynasty as the superior. First seven periods of Chinese literature.
pharoh - ✔✔god-king in Egypt 3000-2500 bc
Sage Kings - ✔✔3000-2500 bc. beginning of their dynasty in china
zhou dynasty - ✔✔2500-2300BC, (1050BC-400BC) Longest dynasty in Chinese history.
Established a new political order with king at the highest level, then lords and warriors
and then peasants.
Irrigation system - ✔✔In Egypt utilizes the Nile river floods in year 2000-1500 bc
India's four basic elements - ✔✔earth, air, fire, water. 2000-1500 bc
Babylon 2000-1500 bc - ✔✔becomes capital of the empire due to the shift in the course of
Euphrates River. Trade routes spread from eastern mediterranean through Europe.
Horses are used to draw vehicles.
Hammurabi - ✔✔King of Babylonia 1900 BC. His code defines criminal laws and lines
of inheritance.
indus culture - ✔✔At its peak, the Indus Civilization may have had a population of
over five million. Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley developed new
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,techniques in handicraft. extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to
Pakistan and northwest India
king saul - ✔✔First King of the 12 tribes of the Hebrews. 1000 bc
daily life 1000-900 bc - ✔✔beginning of mass migration of germanic tribes
aryan culture - ✔✔nomadic and warlike people who migrated into India and
suppressed the Indus people, developed sanscript, worshiped many gods, started the
caste system (by color)
african Kush kingdom - ✔✔The Kingdom of Kush or Kush was an ancient African
kingdom situated on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in
what is now the Republic of Sudan. stablished after the Bronze Age collapse and the
disintegration of the New Kingdom of Egypt, it was centered at Napata in its early
phase. After king Kashta ("the Kushite") invaded Egypt in the 8th century BC, the
Kushite kings ruled as Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt
olmec civilization - ✔✔modern day Mexico; 1200 BC, coastal people, no major river,
agricultural economy (maize, beans and squash); cities were ceremonial centers -
temples, altars, pyramids, tombs for rulers; sacrifices, 1st writing system in the
Americas (900 B.C.)
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, Major population movement 300-500 - ✔✔The first phase, from 300 to 500, saw the
movement of Germanic, Sarmatian and Hunnic tribes and ended with the settlement of
these peoples in the areas of the former Western Roman Empire.
Major population movement 500-900 - ✔✔Slavic, Turkic and other tribes on the move,
re-settling in Eastern Europe and gradually making it predominantly Slavic. Moreover,
more Germanic tribes migrated within Europe during this period, including the
Lombards (to Italy), and the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
bronze age - ✔✔a period in human history, beginning around 3000 B.C. in some areas,
during which people began using bronze, rather than copper or stone, to fashion tools
and weapons
4000 bc -1000 bc culture - ✔✔use of plows, written records, and monotheistic religions.
social and political features 1000-300 bc - ✔✔phoenicians continue westward expansion
into Cyprus and western
Major figures 1000-300 bc - ✔✔...
contributions of ancient greek civilization 1000-300 bc - ✔✔Classical Greece began with
the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by
Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western
end of the Mediterranean Sea had a powerful influence on the Roman EmpireThe city-
states formed themselves into two leagues; the Achaean League (including Thebes,
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