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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Israelites
Papyrus
Pharaoh
2. 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
Aten
Hatshepsut
Tuthmosis III
Osiris
3. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Babylonian Empire
Subservient
Sumerians
Neanderthals
4. 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.
Sumerians
Flint
Middle Kingdom
Sargon I
5. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Civilization
Cuneiform
Cheops or Khufu
Divine Right
6. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Women
Monotheism
Gilgamesh
Animism
7. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Ziggurat
Matrilocal
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Narmer or Menes
8. 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.
Priests
Phoenicians
Old Kingdom
Nebuchanezzar
9. 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.
Matrilocal
Priests
City-states
Human
10. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Nefertiti
Mesopotamian
Patriarchal
Fertile Crescent
11. 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
Judah and Israel
Aten
Shifting Cultivation
12. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Thebes
Jerusalem
Middle Kingdom
Divine Right
13. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Aten
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Tuthmosis III
Redistributive
14. Located at the center of each Sumerian city-state - this was a massive stepped tower upon which a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of the city-state.
Ziggurat
Art
Old Kingdom
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
15. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Tutankhamen
Judah and Israel
Babylonian Empire
16. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Shifting Cultivation
Old Kingdom
Natufian Complex
Flint
17. Stepson of Hatshepsut - he lead the military expeditions during her reign. When he became Pharaoh - he enlisted thousands of men to help him capture more land than any other Pharaoh before him. At the time - he ruled the largest empire ever ruled by
Tuthmosis III
Sargon I
Patriarchal
Papyrus
18. 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.
Nefertiti
Priests
Cheops or Khufu
Gilgamesh
19. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mesopotamian
Iron
Phoenicians
Mythopoeic
20. 'Soldiers of God'
Ptolemies
Amenhotep III
Women
Israelites
21. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Matrilocal
Mesopotamian
Art
Old Testament
22. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Pre-dynastic Period
Israelites
Military
23. 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.
Mesopotamian
Gilgamesh
Ma'at
Pre-dynastic Period
24. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Thebes
6
25. 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
Cheops or Khufu
Priests and Magicians
Yahweh or Jehovah
Old Kingdom
26. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Ra
Hyksos
Thebes
Pyramids
27. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Semites
Ptolemies
Kush
8 -000 BC
28. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Narmer
Hittites
Judah and Israel
Egyptian
29. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Animism
Monotheism
Old Kingdom
Persians
30. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Ptolemies
Ancient Egyptians
Matrilocal
Ziggurat
31. 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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32. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Sargon I
Old Kingdom
New Kingdom
33. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Narmer
River-Valley Civilizations
Ma'at
34. '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
6
Neanderthals
Copper
35. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Set
Hammurabi
Babylonian Empire
36. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Animism
Hyksos
Human
37. 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.
Nile River
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Divine Right
Priests
38. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Sumerian
Narmer or Menes
Indus Valley Civilizations
Cheops or Khufu
39. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Narmer or Menes
Matrilocal
Pastoralism
River-Valley Civilizations
40. 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
Obelisks
Neanderthals
Flint
41. 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
Narmer or Menes
Amenhotep III
Nefertiti
Hittites
42. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Mesopotamian
Tutankhamen
Monotheism
43. 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
Tuthmosis III
Gilgamesh
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Human
44. 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
New Kingdom
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Judah and Israel
Middle East
45. 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
Hatshepsut
Mythopoeic
Nile River
City-states
46. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
6
Narmer
War
Kush
47. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Animism
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Jerusalem
Kush
48. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Hieroglyphics
Potter's Wheel
Arameic
49. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Nebuchanezzar
Jericho
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
River-Valley Civilizations
50. 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
Mesopotamians
Jerusalem
Indus Valley Civilizations
Nile River