MTTC 105 World History 2024 Real Exam Questions and Answers
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MTTC 105 World History 2024 Real Exam Questions and Answers
Archaeology - Answer-- study of past humans by evaluating what they leave behind (bones, buildings, art, tools, pottery, trash, graves)
- take notes and records and use special tools
- photographs, notes, maps, artifacts, and survey o...
MTTC 105 World History 2024 Real
Exam Questions and Answers
Archaeology - Answer-- study of past humans by evaluating what they leave behind
(bones, buildings, art, tools, pottery, trash, graves)
- take notes and records and use special tools
- photographs, notes, maps, artifacts, and survey of the area
- they have found that humans or near humans have existed for 600,000 years
- more primitive humans are believed to have appeared 1 million years ago -> cro-
magnon man -> Homo sapiens
Bronze Age - Answer-a period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron
Age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of bronze
- 3000 BC
- metals discovered
- 1st civilization emerge as humans become more tech advanced
Iron Age - Answer-the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of
iron tools and weapons
- 1,200 to 1000 BC
-metal tools replace stone stools as humans develop knowledge of smelting
Civilizations are defined as having the following characteristics: - Answer-- use of metal
to make weapons and tools
- written language
- a defined territorial state
- a calendar
The Earliest Civilizations developed in river valleys where reliable, fertile land was easily
found, including: - Answer-- the nile River valley in Egypt
- Mesopotamia
- The Indus Valley
- Hwang Ho in China
Where did the very earliest civilizations develop? - Answer-- Tigris - Euphrates Valley in
Mesopotamia (now part of Iraq, and in Egypt's Nile Valley
- between 5000 and 3000 BC
- known as Fertile Crescent
- geography and availability of water
-Fluvial civilizations: earliest civilizations founded near water
, Rivers and Water provided: - Answer-- water for drinking, cultivating crops, and caring
for domesticated animals
- a gathering place for wild animals that could be hunted
- rich soil deposits as a result of regular flooding
Irrigation techniques helped.... - Answer-- direct water where it was most needed
- to sustain herds of domestic animals
- to nourish crops of increasing size and quality
The Fertile Crescent - Answer--southwest Asia and the Mediterranean Basin
- provided raw materials
- waves of migration and invasion (earliest wars and genocides)
The Egyptians - Answer--one of the most advanced ancient cultures
-great pyramids
-Hieroglyphics
-religion was highly developed and complex -> adv. techniques for preservation of
bodies after death
- paper made by papyrus
- decimal system
- solar calendar
- mathematics
The Babylonians - Answer-A group of people who conquered the Sumerians. They had
a very famous king named Hammurabi. Hammurabi created nearly 300 laws known as
Hammurabi's Code of Laws, the old known legal system based on the concept of "an
eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".
The Assyrians - Answer-Known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered
neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the
way to central Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and
swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire
- developed horse drawn chariots and an organized military
The Hebrew - Answer-- developed monotheistic religion that eventually developed into
modern Judaism and Christianity
The Persians - Answer-- conquerors (but allowed those conquered to keep own laws,
customs, and religious techniques)
- developed an alphabet
- practiced Zoroastrianism and Mithraism
Effects of the Industrial Revolution on society - Answer--began in Great Britain in 18th
century bringing coal and steam powered machinery into widespread use
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