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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Ra
Hebrews
Pastoralism
2. 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.
Hammurabi
Middle Kingdom
Sumerians
Mythopoeic
3. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Ziggurat
Animals
Monotheism
8 -000 BC
4. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Indus Valley Civilizations
Nebuchanezzar
Cuneiform
5. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Papyrus
Sumerian
Ancient Egyptians
Subservient
6. 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.
Jerusalem
Military
Ra
Papyrus
7. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Priests and Magicians
Jerusalem
Amenhotep III
Animals
8. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
River-Valley Civilizations
Gilgamesh
Patriarchal
9. 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
Yahweh or Jehovah
Ptolemies
Gilgamesh
Hebrews
10. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Hammurabi
Civilization
Nebuchanezzar
Priests
11. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Civilization
Ziggurat
Persians
Water
12. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Ten Commandments
Flint
Babylonian Empire
Bronze Age
13. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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14. 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.
Ra
Old Kingdom
Ziggurat
Gilgamesh
15. 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.
Monotheism
Ramesses II
Ptolemies
Water
16. 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.
Civilization
Cuneiform
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Arameic
17. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Tuthmosis III
Mythopoeic
Old Kingdom
Set
18. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Old Kingdom
Judah and Israel
Nile River
Art
19. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Subservient
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Neanderthals
Pyramids
20. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Narmer or Menes
Hittites
Patriarchal
Redistributive
21. 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.
Judah and Israel
Nefertiti
Sumerian
Hatshepsut
22. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Hyksos
Sumerians
Mesopotamian
23. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Pastoralism
Yahweh or Jehovah
Ten Commandments
Tuthmosis III
24. 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
Fertile Crescent
Old Testament
Ten Commandments
25. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Patriarchal
Obelisks
Tutankhamen
Sumerians
26. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
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Gilgamesh
Water
Nile River
27. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Human
Shifting Cultivation
Water
28. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Old Testament
Ra
War
Priests
29. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Ramesses II
Middle Kingdom
Natufian Complex
30. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Gilgamesh
Narmer
Egyptian
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
31. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Ra
War
Ma'at
Women
32. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Matrilocal
Priests
Animals
33. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Copper
Nile River
Israelites
Set
34. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Sumerians
Pre-dynastic Period
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Nefertiti
35. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Old Testament
Sumerians
36. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Yahweh or Jehovah
Egyptian
Divine Right
37. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Hyksos
Middle Kingdom
Mesopotamian
Priests
38. 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
Fertile Crescent
Sumerians
Hatshepsut
Papyrus
39. 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
City-states
Pyramids
Middle Kingdom
40. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Ziggurat
Potter's Wheel
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Flint
41. 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.
Ramesses II
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Tuthmosis III
Middle East
42. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Cheops or Khufu
Nebuchanezzar
Gilgamesh
Shifting Cultivation
43. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Sumerians
Military
Copper
44. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Subservient
Sumerian
Yahweh or Jehovah
Amenhotep III
45. 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
Amenhotep III
Civilization
Divination
Ancient Egyptians
46. 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
Old Kingdom
Human
Priests and Magicians
River-Valley Civilizations
47. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Human
Papyrus
Divine Right
Nile River
48. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Nile River
Patriarchal
Cuneiform
Natufian Complex
49. 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
Cheops or Khufu
Tuthmosis III
Persians
50. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Hammurabi
Cuneiform
Military
Pyramids
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