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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Phoenicians
Mesopotamian
Monotheism
2. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Civilization
Patriarchal
Sumerians
Animals
3. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer
Narmer or Menes
Redistributive
Sumerians
4. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Cheops or Khufu
Old Kingdom
Ma'at
Jericho
5. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Civilization
Yahweh or Jehovah
New Kingdom
Obelisks
6. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Mesopotamians
Osiris
Hatshepsut
Matrilocal
7. 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
Tuthmosis III
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Natufian Complex
8. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Shifting Cultivation
Natufian Complex
Hittites
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
9. 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.
Set
Ziggurat
Hammurabi
Ramesses II
10. 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.
Divination
Matrilocal
Ra
Phoenicians
11. 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.
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Indus Valley Civilizations
Hyksos
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
12. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Israelites
Hebrews
Natufian Complex
Cuneiform
13. The period prior to 12 -000 BC typified by the use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence; describes the majority of 2 million plus years of the existence of homo species.
River-Valley Civilizations
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Middle East
8 -000 BC
14. 'Soldiers of God'
Israelites
Yahweh or Jehovah
Semites
Ma'at
15. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Thebes
Pharaoh
Jericho
Pyramids
16. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Ra
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Pharaoh
17. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Matrilocal
Arameic
Indus Valley Civilizations
18. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Pastoralism
Matrilocal
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
19. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Animism
Pre-dynastic Period
Redistributive
Narmer or Menes
20. 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
New Kingdom
Mesopotamian
Art
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21. 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.
Kush
Shifting Cultivation
8 -000 BC
City-states
22. The most important ruler in Babylonian history. Responsible for the codification of law. Ruled over public and private life; business - financial - and criminal law. Judgements were often harsh.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Pre-dynastic Period
Hammurabi
Tutankhamen
23. 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
Nile River
Ptolemies
Shifting Cultivation
Hebrews
24. The first civilizations - they created a basic set of tools - intellectual concepts such as writing and mathematics - and political forms that would persist and spread to other parts of Europe - Asia - and Africa. Most were in decline by 1000 BC.
Cuneiform
River-Valley Civilizations
Tutankhamen
Narmer or Menes
25. 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
Aten
Tuthmosis III
Yahweh or Jehovah
Old Kingdom
26. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Bronze Age
Patriarchal
Old Kingdom
Neanderthals
27. The Egyptian concept of harmony and order - justice and truth. Implied a divine force for harmony and stability which emanated from the beginning of time itself. Good rule by pharaoh signified its presence
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28. Period of Ancient Egyptian history during which the Pharaohs regained powers over the priests but with somewhat less authority during which laws began to be written down.
Nefertiti
Cheops or Khufu
Middle Kingdom
Sumerian
29. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Cheops or Khufu
Pastoralism
Ancient Egyptians
30. 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.
Old Testament
Shifting Cultivation
Sargon I
Water
31. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
City-states
Copper
Kush
Bronze Age
32. First common language used for trading amongst people of different groups - replaced Hebrew in religious texts - and was probably spoken by Jesus and his disciples.
Old Kingdom
Phoenicians
Arameic
Art
33. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Shifting Cultivation
Middle East
Indus Valley Civilizations
Divination
34. 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.
Tutankhamen
Nefertiti
Military
Aten
35. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Ramesses II
Israelites
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Iron
36. 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.
War
Nefertiti
Papyrus
Gilgamesh
37. 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.
Old Testament
Iron
Copper
Egyptian
38. Period of Ancient Egyptian history during which the great pyramids were built - Declined following the reign on Pepi II because of the rise in power of regional nomarchs and the dissolution of a centralized Egyptian government. This period was follow
Tutankhamen
Old Kingdom
Human
Divine Right
39. Between 3000 and 1500 BC - the civilization flourished over the region that extended hundreds of miles from the Himalaya Mountains to the coast of the Arabian Sea. At the heart of the civilization were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Both cities had popula
Animism
Indus Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamian
Neanderthals
40. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Jerusalem
Persians
Priests and Magicians
Animals
41. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Ziggurat
Thebes
Redistributive
Papyrus
42. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Potter's Wheel
Hatshepsut
Semites
43. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Tutankhamen
Obelisks
Priests and Magicians
Fertile Crescent
44. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Human
Old Kingdom
Nile River
45. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Papyrus
Mesopotamians
Hyksos
Semites
46. 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.
Thebes
Pre-dynastic Period
Priests
Middle Kingdom
47. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Persians
Military
Papyrus
8 -000 BC
48. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Old Testament
Ziggurat
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49. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Ten Commandments
Water
Nile River
50. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Iron
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Potter's Wheel
Women
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