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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Hittites
Matrilocal
Pre-dynastic Period
Persians
2. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Iron
Middle East
River-Valley Civilizations
Obelisks
3. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Osiris
New Kingdom
Thebes
River-Valley Civilizations
4. 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
Gilgamesh
New Kingdom
Sumerian
Priests
5. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Pyramids
Flint
War
Obelisks
6. 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.
Jericho
Cuneiform
City-states
Persians
7. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Neanderthals
Hyksos
Animals
Jericho
8. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
8 -000 BC
Sumerians
Divine Right
Flint
9. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Fertile Crescent
Copper
Pastoralism
Neanderthals
10. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Water
Tutankhamen
Bronze Age
Animism
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.
Hammurabi
Mesopotamians
River-Valley Civilizations
Iron
13. 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.
Hammurabi
Babylonian Empire
Divination
Hyksos
14. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Shifting Cultivation
Hebrews
Sumerian
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
15. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Old Testament
Pre-dynastic Period
6
16. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Tutankhamen
Amenhotep III
Natufian Complex
Semites
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
Babylonian Empire
Bronze Age
Fertile Crescent
Hebrews
18. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Gilgamesh
Hieroglyphics
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Indus Valley Civilizations
19. 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.
War
Ra
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ten Commandments
20. 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
Gilgamesh
Obelisks
Military
21. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Monotheism
Set
Hatshepsut
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
22. 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
Potter's Wheel
Old Kingdom
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Divine Right
23. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Matrilocal
Tuthmosis III
City-states
Copper
24. 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.
Semites
Mesopotamian
Water
Aten
25. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Jericho
Judah and Israel
Human
Neanderthals
26. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Judah and Israel
Babylonian Empire
Monotheism
Cheops or Khufu
27. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Sargon I
Pyramids
28. 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
Women
Sumerians
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
29. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Divination
Judah and Israel
Sumerian
Art
30. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Hebrews
Military
Water
31. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Nile River
Animals
Ancient Egyptians
32. 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.
Osiris
Priests and Magicians
Pharaoh
River-Valley Civilizations
33. 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
Set
Osiris
Ten Commandments
Mesopotamians
34. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Osiris
Egyptian
35. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Sumerian
Iron
Gilgamesh
Middle Kingdom
36. 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.
Matrilocal
Israelites
Gilgamesh
Narmer or Menes
37. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Babylonian Empire
Priests and Magicians
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
38. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
6
Sumerians
Animism
39. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Amenhotep III
Shifting Cultivation
Priests
40. 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
Hittites
Babylonian Empire
Sumerians
41. 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
Hieroglyphics
Mythopoeic
Potter's Wheel
42. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Sumerians
Pyramids
Military
Nile River
43. 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.
Pyramids
Old Testament
Indus Valley Civilizations
Ten Commandments
44. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Sumerians
Ptolemies
6
45. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Flint
Mythopoeic
Pastoralism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
46. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Copper
Animism
Natufian Complex
Obelisks
47. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Ancient Egyptians
Jericho
Hebrews
Shifting Cultivation
48. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
River-Valley Civilizations
Hyksos
49. 'Soldiers of God'
Nile River
Sumerian
Israelites
Persians
50. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Divine Right
Iron
Civilization
Potter's Wheel