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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Babylonian Empire
Jericho
Yahweh or Jehovah
2. 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
Hebrews
Jerusalem
Women
Babylonian Empire
3. Egyptian civilization sprang up in northern Africa - along the ______________; this river played a crucial role in the ability of the Egyptians to produce an abundant harvest.
Pre-dynastic Period
Ptolemies
Nile River
Hammurabi
4. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Old Testament
Arameic
Women
5. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Shifting Cultivation
Phoenicians
Cheops or Khufu
Copper
6. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
Copper
Ma'at
River-Valley Civilizations
7. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Neanderthals
Hieroglyphics
Jericho
Jerusalem
8. 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.
Civilization
Israelites
Ancient Egyptians
Cuneiform
9. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Priests
Tutankhamen
Pharaoh
Sumerian
10. 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
Patriarchal
Nefertiti
Persians
11. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Old Testament
Gilgamesh
Cuneiform
Civilization
12. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Pharaoh
Persians
8 -000 BC
Kush
13. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Copper
Water
Semites
Aten
14. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Patriarchal
Cheops or Khufu
15. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Nebuchanezzar
Middle Kingdom
Narmer or Menes
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16. Successor to Ra as the king of the gods of Ancient Egypt - ______ is credited with teaching men to be civilized and to farm - and for teaching mankind to worship the gods and to build temples. Isis was also a wise and good ruler who taught men how to
River-Valley Civilizations
Art
Osiris
Middle East
17. 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.
Middle East
Shifting Cultivation
Amenhotep III
Mesopotamians
18. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
River-Valley Civilizations
Hatshepsut
Obelisks
Subservient
19. 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.
Persians
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
Sumerians
20. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Mythopoeic
Hatshepsut
Kush
Cheops or Khufu
21. 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
Women
Papyrus
Hammurabi
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.
Art
Phoenicians
Flint
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
8 -000 BC
Hatshepsut
Old Testament
Subservient
24. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Judah and Israel
Mythopoeic
New Kingdom
Set
25. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Sargon I
Judah and Israel
River-Valley Civilizations
Narmer
26. 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.
Animism
Mythopoeic
Sargon I
Aten
27. 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.
Hyksos
Subservient
Ptolemies
Nile River
28. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Cheops or Khufu
Ramesses II
Sargon I
29. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Hieroglyphics
River-Valley Civilizations
Semites
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
30. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Amenhotep III
Old Testament
Egyptian
Thebes
31. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Israelites
Nefertiti
Pastoralism
Art
32. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Pyramids
Old Testament
Semites
33. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Nebuchanezzar
Tuthmosis III
Human
Israelites
34. 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
Sumerian
Monotheism
Pre-dynastic Period
35. 'Soldiers of God'
Israelites
Gilgamesh
Flint
Sargon I
36. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Ptolemies
War
Pre-dynastic Period
Obelisks
37. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Hebrews
Jericho
Thebes
38. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Patriarchal
Ancient Egyptians
Cheops or Khufu
Copper
39. 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
Phoenicians
New Kingdom
Ramesses II
War
40. Name for the Hebrew god.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Amenhotep III
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Water
41. 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
Kush
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Persians
Old Kingdom
42. 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
Fertile Crescent
Art
Persians
43. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Shifting Cultivation
Egyptian
Priests and Magicians
Sumerians
44. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Patriarchal
Animals
Semites
8 -000 BC
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
Ra
Flint
Sumerians
46. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Amenhotep III
City-states
Pyramids
Women
47. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Divine Right
Jericho
Matrilocal
Hieroglyphics
48. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Kush
Ancient Egyptians
Hatshepsut
Cuneiform
49. 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.
New Kingdom
Art
Hyksos
Ramesses II
50. 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
River-Valley Civilizations
Hebrews
Egyptian