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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Divine Right
Women
Jericho
Kush
2. Part god and part king - the __________ was the leader of the Ancient of Egyptians. It was his job to raise the sun - the crops - and the coming of the Nile. He held absolute power over the Egyptians in the present life and in the hereafter.
Copper
Pharaoh
Aten
Women
3. The practice of seeking to foretell future events by interpreting divine signs - which could appear in various forms - such as in entrails of animals - in patterns in smoke - or in dreams.
Pharaoh
Ziggurat
Divination
Hittites
4. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Judah and Israel
Hebrews
Priests and Magicians
Israelites
5. Following the defeat of the foreign Hyksos rulers - this period was the most prosperous time of Ancient Egyptian history. It saw the expansion of the Egyptian Empire to Nubia in the south as well as to the near east through warfare gaining riches and
Pre-dynastic Period
Fertile Crescent
Egyptian
New Kingdom
6. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Set
Pharaoh
Flint
7. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Ra
Narmer or Menes
Narmer
Jerusalem
8. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ma'at
Ten Commandments
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Matrilocal
9. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Divination
Ramesses II
Matrilocal
10. Ruler of Akkad - he established the first empire in Mesopotamian civilization conquering and uniting the Sumerian city-states under a centralized bureaucratic government. Installed himself as the mediator between the gods and man - above the priests.
Subservient
Set
Sargon I
Hatshepsut
11. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mesopotamian
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Israelites
12. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Cheops or Khufu
Mythopoeic
Sumerians
Fertile Crescent
13. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Human
Set
Jericho
Divine Right
14. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Pharaoh
Neanderthals
Animism
15. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Amenhotep III
Egyptian
Art
Flint
16. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pharaoh
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Pyramids
17. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Animals
Pyramids
Judah and Israel
18. Period of Ancient Egyptian history during which permanent settlements were established - stone and crafts work developed - burial practices moved to the outer edges of the territories - and the beginnings of a belief in the afterlife became evident.
Pre-dynastic Period
River-Valley Civilizations
Ancient Egyptians
Shifting Cultivation
19. Monotheistic - Semitic-speaking people of Mesopotamia. Enslaved by the Egyptians - their leader Moses eventually led them out of captivity. Their religion opened the door for awareness of the self with moral autonomy - man had the choice between good
Persians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Bronze Age
Hebrews
20. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Nebuchanezzar
Divination
Ra
Subservient
21. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Subservient
Priests and Magicians
Persians
Nefertiti
22. A sea-faring civilization located on the shores on the Eastern Mediterranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean and devised a simplified alphabet that greatly influenced the Greek and Latin writing systems.
Ptolemies
Phoenicians
Nile River
Middle East
23. Cunning woman who became Pharaoh during the New Kingdom. She relied heavily on propoganda claimed to be the daughter of the God Amen - often presented herself with a male body and false beard in statues and imagery. Her stepson - whom she had usurped
Hittites
Hatshepsut
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Semites
24. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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25. Ancient Sumerian king - ruled 2700 BC. Credited with having been a demigod of superhuman strength who built a great city wall to defend his people from external threats. Influence of his epic stories are seen in the Hebrew story of the Great Flood.
Gilgamesh
Narmer
Set
Hittites
26. Born a commoner - this Pharaoh rose to power at the age of 15 on the coat tails of his family's military prowess and reigned until his death at age 93. As one of Egypt's greatest kings - he relied heavily on propaganda and diplomacy - building temple
Natufian Complex
River-Valley Civilizations
Kush
Ramesses II
27. 'Soldiers of God'
City-states
Priests
Narmer
Israelites
28. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Middle East
Papyrus
Water
Narmer
29. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Divination
Copper
Natufian Complex
30. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Military
Obelisks
Hammurabi
Egyptian
31. The term given to the development of agricultural societies. This revolution in economic - political - and social organization began in the Middle East as early as 10 -000 B.C.E. and gradually spread to other centers - including parts of India - Nort
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Old Kingdom
Pharaoh
Ziggurat
32. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Egyptian
Semites
Subservient
Narmer
33. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Women
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Cuneiform
Semites
34. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Animism
Narmer or Menes
Civilization
Nefertiti
35. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Priests
Animism
Neanderthals
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
36. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Water
Hammurabi
Women
Egyptian
37. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Set
Ancient Egyptians
Military
Flint
38. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Gilgamesh
Animism
Papyrus
Cuneiform
39. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
Tuthmosis III
Redistributive
Matrilocal
40. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Ancient Egyptians
Phoenicians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
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41. Indo-European people who entered Mesopotamia in 1750 BC - destroying the Babylonian Empire; partnered with the Egyptians to destroy Syria - then turned on the Egyptians conquering them and ruling for several centuries; played a major role in transmit
Potter's Wheel
Water
Ptolemies
Hittites
42. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Narmer
Thebes
Phoenicians
43. This successfully diplomatic Pharaoh of the New Kingdom avoided continued warfare - commissioned the construction of two huge temples in Nubia that were unusually dedicated to the gods of ancient Egypt - Chiefly Amen-Re - rather than to the Pharaoh a
Amenhotep III
Semites
Flint
River-Valley Civilizations
44. Documents of the Hebrew god and his law. Rather than heroic tales of gods and goddesses - this book told takes of men and women both weak and strong.
Osiris
Old Testament
8 -000 BC
Israelites
45. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Judah and Israel
Middle Kingdom
Matrilocal
Jerusalem
46. The most important gods of Ancient Egypt - ________ was the sun and the begetter of the gods themselves. The myth that he was the first king on earth is the foundation on which the Pharoahs stake their claim of divinity.
Cuneiform
Pastoralism
Israelites
Ra
47. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Sumerians
Sumerians
Middle Kingdom
48. The loose collection of territorially small cities in Mesopotamia which lacked unity with one another due to geographic isolation. Each was dedicated to a particular god or goddess.
Jericho
Women
City-states
Natufian Complex
49. Stepson of Hatshepsut - he lead the military expeditions during her reign. When he became Pharaoh - he enlisted thousands of men to help him capture more land than any other Pharaoh before him. At the time - he ruled the largest empire ever ruled by
Redistributive
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Old Kingdom
Tuthmosis III
50. Passive - Stable - Predictable - and Conformist are adjectives that the describe the _____________ people and explain why their civilization was able to survive for an extraordinary 3 -000 years.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Ancient Egyptians
Hyksos
Indus Valley Civilizations