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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Mesopotamians
Ziggurat
Hebrews
Babylonian Empire
2. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Set
Kush
Neanderthals
Sumerians
3. Intermediate form of ecological adaptation in which temporary forms of cultivation are carried out with little impact on the natural ecology; typical of rainforest cultivators.
Pharaoh
Ziggurat
Animals
Shifting Cultivation
4. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Divination
War
Nile River
Narmer or Menes
5. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Jericho
Gilgamesh
Persians
Phoenicians
6. 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.
Sumerians
Mesopotamians
Osiris
Bronze Age
7. 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
Egyptian
Tutankhamen
Hatshepsut
Iron
8. 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
Gilgamesh
Redistributive
Indus Valley Civilizations
Bronze Age
9. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Human
Pre-dynastic Period
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Priests and Magicians
10. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Civilization
Papyrus
Tuthmosis III
11. 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
Divination
Amenhotep III
Obelisks
Persians
12. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Potter's Wheel
Pastoralism
Ten Commandments
Babylonian Empire
13. 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
Ancient Egyptians
Matrilocal
Cuneiform
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
14. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Tutankhamen
Sumerian
Shifting Cultivation
Military
15. 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.
Priests
Osiris
Hatshepsut
River-Valley Civilizations
16. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Cheops or Khufu
Persians
Mythopoeic
17. 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.
Sargon I
River-Valley Civilizations
Art
6
18. 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
Tuthmosis III
Babylonian Empire
Priests and Magicians
Cheops or Khufu
19. Egyptian sun-god that attained preeminence above other Egyptian deities. Briefly leading the Egyptians into monotheism prior to the reign of Tutankhamen which saw the restoration of the older religion and its promise of an afterlife.
Hatshepsut
Phoenicians
Aten
8 -000 BC
20. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
Old Testament
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Hittites
21. 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.
Ra
Subservient
Jerusalem
Ramesses II
22. 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.
Animals
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Matrilocal
Women
23. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Sumerian
Fertile Crescent
Gilgamesh
Ma'at
24. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Mesopotamians
Animals
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Iron
25. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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26. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Cuneiform
Sumerian
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Art
27. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Neanderthals
Judah and Israel
Persians
Israelites
28. 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.
Sumerians
Kush
Nefertiti
Jerusalem
29. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Hatshepsut
Jericho
Animals
Subservient
30. 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.
Osiris
Hammurabi
Iron
War
31. 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.
Natufian Complex
Arameic
New Kingdom
Sumerians
32. 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
Jericho
Mesopotamian
Ten Commandments
Hebrews
33. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Kush
Persians
Tuthmosis III
34. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Hyksos
Tuthmosis III
Mesopotamians
Shifting Cultivation
35. 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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36. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Gilgamesh
Fertile Crescent
Nebuchanezzar
37. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Ra
Mesopotamian
Divine Right
Shifting Cultivation
38. 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.
Copper
Hebrews
Ancient Egyptians
Judah and Israel
39. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Hyksos
Gilgamesh
Judah and Israel
40. 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
Cheops or Khufu
Matrilocal
Patriarchal
Hittites
41. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Civilization
Hyksos
Mesopotamians
Babylonian Empire
42. 'Soldiers of God'
Natufian Complex
Pastoralism
Israelites
Mythopoeic
43. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Neanderthals
Animals
Military
44. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Potter's Wheel
Ramesses II
Ma'at
Middle East
45. 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
Mesopotamian
Papyrus
Osiris
46. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Osiris
Fertile Crescent
Bronze Age
Set
47. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Priests and Magicians
Cheops or Khufu
48. The Greek leaders of Egypt after it was conquered by Alexander the Great. These leaders took on much of the Egyptian culture - even calling themselves Pharaoh.
War
Nebuchanezzar
Patriarchal
Ptolemies
49. 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
Phoenicians
Hieroglyphics
50. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Israelites
Sumerian
Potter's Wheel