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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Mesopotamians
Tutankhamen
Pre-dynastic Period
Thebes
2. 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
Obelisks
Narmer or Menes
Hieroglyphics
3. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Obelisks
Copper
Civilization
Cuneiform
4. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Ziggurat
Hebrews
Monotheism
5. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Pharaoh
Iron
Babylonian Empire
6. The smaller size of the pyramids during the 5th and 6th dynasties is reflective of the declining power of the Pharaoh and the rise in power of ____________ in an economy of increasing size.
Ptolemies
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ma'at
Priests
7. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Hyksos
Mesopotamian
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Ancient Egyptians
8. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Narmer
Gilgamesh
Pyramids
Monotheism
9. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Civilization
Art
Ramesses II
War
10. 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.
Pharaoh
Egyptian
City-states
Water
11. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Sumerians
Narmer or Menes
Old Kingdom
Fertile Crescent
12. 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.
Potter's Wheel
River-Valley Civilizations
Set
War
13. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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14. 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
Divine Right
Hittites
Papyrus
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
15. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Divine Right
Divination
Papyrus
16. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Neanderthals
Divine Right
Sumerian
Nebuchanezzar
17. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Cuneiform
Indus Valley Civilizations
Set
18. 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
Middle East
Babylonian Empire
Monotheism
19. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Cuneiform
Neanderthals
Ten Commandments
Semites
20. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
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Patriarchal
Matrilocal
Kush
21. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Hittites
Water
Tuthmosis III
Shifting Cultivation
22. 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.
Water
Jericho
Aten
Amenhotep III
23. 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.
Matrilocal
Divination
Arameic
Ancient Egyptians
24. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Potter's Wheel
Jerusalem
Redistributive
Water
25. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
8 -000 BC
Human
Women
26. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Cuneiform
27. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Obelisks
Sargon I
Flint
Pyramids
28. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Ancient Egyptians
Sargon I
Matrilocal
Pharaoh
29. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Sumerian
Middle Kingdom
Priests and Magicians
Neanderthals
30. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Fertile Crescent
Thebes
Patriarchal
31. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Ma'at
Military
Ptolemies
32. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Old Testament
Patriarchal
Animals
Sumerians
33. 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.
Copper
Ra
Sumerian
Nebuchanezzar
34. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Animals
Papyrus
Sumerians
Ten Commandments
35. 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
New Kingdom
Sumerian
Hatshepsut
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
36. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Fertile Crescent
Redistributive
Sargon I
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
37. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Ma'at
Kush
Ziggurat
38. 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
Papyrus
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Hittites
Hieroglyphics
39. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Sargon I
Civilization
Aten
Military
40. 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
Semites
Civilization
Hammurabi
41. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Jerusalem
Mesopotamians
Hittites
Nebuchanezzar
42. 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.
Persians
Potter's Wheel
Tutankhamen
Shifting Cultivation
43. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Pyramids
Persians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
44. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Indus Valley Civilizations
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Pastoralism
Old Kingdom
45. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Natufian Complex
Potter's Wheel
Divine Right
Military
46. 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.
Persians
Monotheism
Mesopotamian
Nile River
47. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Old Testament
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Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Pharaoh
48. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Patriarchal
Pharaoh
49. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Hatshepsut
Art
Arameic
Flint
50. 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
Sumerians
Shifting Cultivation
Animals