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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Semites
Iron
Ra
Ancient Egyptians
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.
Old Kingdom
Iron
Judah and Israel
Pharaoh
3. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Matrilocal
Patriarchal
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4. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Monotheism
Jericho
Water
Egyptian
5. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Nefertiti
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Patriarchal
Hieroglyphics
6. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Animals
Old Testament
Sumerians
7. 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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Pastoralism
Monotheism
Sumerians
8. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Hittites
Iron
Matrilocal
Flint
9. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Iron
Bronze Age
Nefertiti
Jericho
10. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Pre-dynastic Period
Art
Divination
Priests and Magicians
11. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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12. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Jerusalem
Mesopotamians
Hatshepsut
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
13. 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
Animals
Sumerians
Nefertiti
Osiris
14. 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
Egyptian
Mesopotamians
Pharaoh
15. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Pyramids
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamian
Papyrus
16. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Old Kingdom
Ancient Egyptians
Persians
Human
17. 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
Judah and Israel
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Hebrews
Egyptian
18. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Ziggurat
Narmer
Human
19. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Aten
Indus Valley Civilizations
8 -000 BC
Women
20. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Animals
Old Kingdom
Mesopotamians
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
Sumerians
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Patriarchal
Monotheism
22. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Art
Nefertiti
Babylonian Empire
Hebrews
23. 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
Babylonian Empire
Animism
Water
24. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Hammurabi
Persians
Sargon I
25. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Monotheism
Bronze Age
Neanderthals
26. 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.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Flint
Arameic
Hatshepsut
27. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Copper
Women
Ra
Middle East
28. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Phoenicians
Tutankhamen
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Bronze Age
29. 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.
Sargon I
Fertile Crescent
Ra
Mesopotamians
30. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
8 -000 BC
Pyramids
Mesopotamian
Middle East
31. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Ramesses II
Neanderthals
Persians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
32. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Middle Kingdom
Natufian Complex
Bronze Age
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33. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Thebes
Ziggurat
Sargon I
34. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Phoenicians
Sargon I
Narmer or Menes
Indus Valley Civilizations
35. 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.
Pharaoh
Hammurabi
Old Testament
Ptolemies
36. '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
Redistributive
Hammurabi
Fertile Crescent
37. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Papyrus
Human
Pharaoh
Water
38. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Ziggurat
Semites
War
Ptolemies
39. 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
Pre-dynastic Period
Iron
Ptolemies
40. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Civilization
Osiris
Monotheism
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
41. 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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42. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Tutankhamen
Jerusalem
Narmer
43. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Nefertiti
8 -000 BC
Hyksos
Sumerian
44. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Mesopotamian
8 -000 BC
Ra
45. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Hittites
Flint
Subservient
Mesopotamian
46. 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.
Aten
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Middle Kingdom
Pre-dynastic Period
47. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Mesopotamian
Narmer
Thebes
Yahweh or Jehovah
48. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Indus Valley Civilizations
8 -000 BC
Military
Kush
49. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Water
Sumerian
Military
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.
Sumerians
Ma'at
Priests and Magicians
Gilgamesh