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HISTORY OAE 025 NEW EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS100% VERIFIED
Importance of water to early civilizations - ANSWER drinking and cultivating, a
gathering place for wild animals that could be hunted, easily available water for
domesticated animals, rich soil deposits as a result of regular flooding
Sumer structure - ANSWER southern part of Mesopotamia, consisted of a dozen
city-states. Each city-state had its own gods, and the leader of each city-state also
served as the high priest.
Cultural legacies of Sumer - ANSWER Invention of writing, invention of the wheel, the
first library, the hanging gardens of Babylon, first written laws, the epic of Gilgamesh
Mycenaean civilization - ANSWER First major civilization in Europe. Rely more on
conquest. Sparta, Metropolis and Corinth. Linear script B
Characteristics of Civilization - ANSWER use of metal to make weapons and tools,
written language, a defined territorial state, a calendar
Earliest civilizations - ANSWER Nile River valley in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus River,
Hwang Ho in China
Major civilizations of Mesopotamia - ANSWER sumerians, amorites, hittites, assyrians,
chaldeans, persians
Common elements of Mesopotamia - ANSWER autocratic, a single ruler served as the
head of government and often the main religious ruler. Often tyrannical militaristic
leaders controlled life, law, trade, religion.
,Ancient American civilization - ANSWER Norte Chico in Peru, Anasazi, Mayan
Norte Chico civilzation - ANSWER Peru, an agricultural society of 20 individual
communities, that existed over 5,000 years ago. This culture is also known as
Caral-Supe, and is the oldest known civilization in the Americas
Anasazi civilization - ANSWER Ancient Pueblo People in what is now the southwestern
United States. Emerging about 1200 BCE, the Anasazi built complex adobe dwellings,
and were the forerunners of later Pueblo Indian cultures.
Maya Civilization - ANSWER arose in southern Mexico and northern Central American as
early as 2600 BCE. Developed a written language and a complex calendar
Montgomery Bus Boycott - ANSWER 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a
white man. A 381 day boycott ensued, protesting segregation on public buses
Desegregation of Little Rock - ANSR 1957 after Brown v Board the Arkansas board
voted to desegregate their schools.
Birmingham Campaign - ANSR Protestors organized a variety of actions, such as:
sit-ins, and an organized march to launch a voting campaign. when the City of
Birmingham declared the protests illegal, the protestors, including Martin Luther King
J., persisted and were arrested and jailed
Cold war came to an end with the dissolution of the Soviet Union - ANSWER late 1980s
Gorbachev ruled Soviet Union. He introduced a series of reform programs. The Berlin
Wall was torn down which marked the end of the separation in Germany. Soviet Union
let go of their hold on the various republics in East Europe, and they all became
independent. With the end of the USSR, the cold war ended
Summarize Reagan presidency - ANSWER Reaganomics (trickle-down), Economic
Recovery Tax, first female justice, increase national debt, reduce nuclear weapons, loss
of the Challenger, Iran-Contra scandal, deregulation of savings and loan industries
,pre history - ANSWER the period of human history before writing was developed. Lower
paleolithic, upper paleolithic, neolithic
Lower paleolithic - ANSWER humans used crude tools
Upper Paleolithic-ANSWER humans began to develop a wider variety of tools. These
tools were better made and more specialized. They also began to wear clothes,
organize in groups with definite social structures, and to practice art. Most lived in
caves.
Neolithic - ANSWER social structures became more complex including growth of a
sense of family and ideas of religion and government. humans learned to domesticate
animals and to produce crops, build houses, start fires with friction tools, and to knit,
spin, and weave
Major events during Bill Clinton's presidency - ANSWER Family and Medical leave act,
Don't ask Don't Tell, NAFTA, defense of marriage act, olso accords, siege at Waco,
Oklahoma bombing, Troops sent to Haiti, Bosnia, and Somalia
Major accomplishments of Lydon B Johnson - ANSWER President after Kennedy
Assassinated. He supported civil rights bills, tax cuts and other wide-reaching
legislation that Kennedy had also supported. Johnson saw America as a great society
and enacted legislation to fight disease and poverty, renew urban areas, support
education and the environment. Medicare was instituted.
ANSWER North Atlantic Treaty Organization came into being in 1949. An agreement
among the US and Western European countries that an attack on any one of these
countries was to be considered an attack on the whole group.
Warsaw Pact - ANSWER Under the influence of the Soviet Union, The Eastern European
countries of USSR, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Albania, Poland, and
Czechoslovakia responded with the Warsaw pact, which created an agreement similar
to NATO
, Berlin Wall - ANSWER 1961 a wall was built to separate Communist East berlin from
democratic west berlin.
The Iron Curtain - ANSWER a similar metaphorical wall that laid between the east and
the west at the same time as the Berlin Wall
Gerald Ford's Presidency - ANSWER Became president when Nixon resigned. Saw
negotiations with Russia to limit nuclear arms, as well as struggles to deal with inflation,
economic downturn, and energy shortages. Sought to reduce governmental control of
various businesses and reduce the role of the government overall. Also worked to
prevent escalation of conflicts in the Middle East
George W Bush's presidency - ANSWER 9/11 attacks, War with Iraq, last months saw a
serious economic meltdown in the US and worldwide. Extreme gas prices, and the
meltdown of the mortgage industry
Technological advances after WWII - ANSWER Penicillin, supersonic air travel, first
commercial air flight, nuclear power, orbital leading to manned space flight, first man on
the moon
Outline the major events of the presidency of George HW Bush - ANSWER Fall of Berlin
Wall, Panamanian dictator Namuel Noriega captured, Dissolution of the Soviet Union,
Gulf War, Tienanmen Square, Ruby Ridge, WWW
Rosa Parks - ANSWER Often called the mother of the civil rights movement. Her refusal
to give up her seat on the bus to a white man served as a seed from which the movement
grew
Martin Luther King Jr - ANSWER The best-known leader of the movement, King drew on
Gandhi's beliefs and encouraged non-violent opposition. He led a march on Washington
in 1963, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 and was assassinated in 1968
Malcom X - ANSWER espousing less peaceful means of change became a black Muslim
and supported black nationalism
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