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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Neanderthals
Nile River
Hatshepsut
2. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Pastoralism
Kush
Jerusalem
3. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Old Kingdom
Pyramids
Jericho
Shifting Cultivation
4. First foreigners to conquer and rule Egypt during the 15th and 16th dynasties. Later defeated by Egyptian Soldiers opening the door for the New Kingdom.
Shifting Cultivation
8 -000 BC
Hyksos
Amenhotep III
5. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Monotheism
New Kingdom
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Civilization
6. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Amenhotep III
Hittites
Thebes
Phoenicians
7. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Subservient
Fertile Crescent
Bronze Age
Civilization
8. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Military
Mythopoeic
Copper
Flint
9. 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
Amenhotep III
Tuthmosis III
Matrilocal
Redistributive
10. The smaller size of the pyramids during the 5th and 6th dynasties is reflective of the declining power of the Pharaoh and the rise in power of ____________ in an economy of increasing size.
Mesopotamians
Priests
Bronze Age
Art
11. During this young Pharaoh's reign - the priests and military leaders who has lost power during the reign of his predecessor - Akenhaten - seized the opportunity to use the boy as their puppet and return Egypt to its traditional religion.
Ten Commandments
Tutankhamen
Middle Kingdom
Yahweh or Jehovah
12. Wife of Akenhaten - died during his celebration. After which Akenhaten became intolerant of any other gods - obsessively erasing them from history and neglecting his kingdom in the process.
Nefertiti
Mythopoeic
New Kingdom
Bronze Age
13. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Priests
Animals
Osiris
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
14. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Hatshepsut
Narmer or Menes
Judah and Israel
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
15. 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.
Jerusalem
Pre-dynastic Period
Hebrews
Papyrus
16. 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.
Divination
Judah and Israel
Matrilocal
Bronze Age
17. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Priests and Magicians
8 -000 BC
Persians
Osiris
18. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Narmer
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
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Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
19. 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.
Jerusalem
City-states
Papyrus
Obelisks
20. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Animism
Potter's Wheel
Redistributive
Ptolemies
21. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Kush
Mythopoeic
Mesopotamian
Natufian Complex
22. 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.
Old Kingdom
Ra
Sargon I
Obelisks
23. Located at the center of each Sumerian city-state - this was a massive stepped tower upon which a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of the city-state.
Ziggurat
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Mesopotamian
Old Testament
24. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
River-Valley Civilizations
Animals
Egyptian
25. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Hyksos
Pastoralism
Civilization
Military
26. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Jericho
27. Name for the Hebrew god.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Set
Ma'at
Ziggurat
28. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Ancient Egyptians
City-states
Mesopotamian
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
29. Migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states; established the first form of writing - cuneiform.
Neanderthals
Mesopotamian
Sumerians
Art
30. 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
Art
Hebrews
Priests and Magicians
Phoenicians
31. 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
Ramesses II
New Kingdom
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
32. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Hatshepsut
Mesopotamians
Animism
Old Kingdom
33. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Hebrews
Egyptian
Pre-dynastic Period
34. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Animals
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
New Kingdom
35. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Cheops or Khufu
Bronze Age
Women
Jericho
36. 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
Pharaoh
Sumerian
Hittites
Arameic
37. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
38. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Priests and Magicians
Pyramids
Art
Osiris
39. Egyptian Pharaoh of the New Kingdom - attempted to reduce the power of the priests by establishing a monotheistic religion dedicated to Aten - the sun-god - replacing the tradition Egyptian pantheon of gods. He established himself as the sole priest
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Priests and Magicians
Copper
Nefertiti
40. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Set
Yahweh or Jehovah
Ancient Egyptians
41. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Subservient
8 -000 BC
Middle East
Divination
42. 'Soldiers of God'
Priests and Magicians
Israelites
Narmer or Menes
Art
43. 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.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Old Testament
Thebes
Hatshepsut
44. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Priests and Magicians
Phoenicians
Mesopotamians
Sumerians
45. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Natufian Complex
Ma'at
Ten Commandments
Semites
46. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Human
Subservient
Ten Commandments
Iron
47. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Copper
Thebes
Natufian Complex
Matrilocal
48. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Ten Commandments
Indus Valley Civilizations
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Mesopotamians
49. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Cuneiform
Amenhotep III
Hieroglyphics
Patriarchal
50. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Pharaoh
Divine Right
Cheops or Khufu