SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Monotheism
Babylonian Empire
Middle Kingdom
Ancient Egyptians
2. 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
Persians
Priests
Nebuchanezzar
3. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Nefertiti
Mesopotamians
Neanderthals
4. 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.
Cheops or Khufu
Ptolemies
Divination
Hyksos
5. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Narmer
Ten Commandments
Hammurabi
Old Testament
6. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Cheops or Khufu
Shifting Cultivation
River-Valley Civilizations
7. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Copper
Ma'at
Pyramids
Papyrus
8. 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
Divination
Ziggurat
Hatshepsut
Subservient
9. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Potter's Wheel
Neanderthals
Arameic
Middle East
10. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Mesopotamian
Arameic
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
6
11. 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.
Copper
6
Middle Kingdom
Priests
12. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Old Testament
Divine Right
Art
Nebuchanezzar
13. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Kush
Women
Animism
Arameic
14. During this young Pharaoh's reign - the priests and military leaders who has lost power during the reign of his predecessor - Akenhaten - seized the opportunity to use the boy as their puppet and return Egypt to its traditional religion.
Sumerians
Tutankhamen
Ptolemies
Pastoralism
15. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Ramesses II
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Military
Divine Right
16. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Narmer or Menes
Matrilocal
Sargon I
Animals
17. 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.
City-states
Yahweh or Jehovah
Divine Right
Sumerians
18. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Hammurabi
Pyramids
Hebrews
Bronze Age
19. 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
Tutankhamen
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Potter's Wheel
20. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Middle East
Tutankhamen
Ra
Thebes
21. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Old Testament
Papyrus
War
Judah and Israel
22. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Potter's Wheel
Judah and Israel
Military
Shifting Cultivation
23. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Mesopotamians
Shifting Cultivation
Mythopoeic
24. 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.
Redistributive
Yahweh or Jehovah
Nile River
Jericho
25. 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.
Hatshepsut
Mesopotamian
River-Valley Civilizations
Monotheism
26. 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
Papyrus
Nebuchanezzar
Ziggurat
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
27. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Obelisks
Sumerians
Animism
Patriarchal
28. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Hyksos
8 -000 BC
Divine Right
29. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Hittites
Animism
Amenhotep III
Pastoralism
30. '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
Divine Right
Semites
Old Kingdom
31. Name for the Hebrew god.
Jerusalem
Set
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Yahweh or Jehovah
32. 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
Civilization
Ziggurat
New Kingdom
Tuthmosis III
33. 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.
Art
Pharaoh
Priests and Magicians
Old Testament
34. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Matrilocal
Mythopoeic
Narmer
Pyramids
35. 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
Sumerian
Animism
Old Testament
36. 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
Arameic
Pre-dynastic Period
Pyramids
37. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Egyptian
Arameic
Pre-dynastic Period
38. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Ra
Semites
Aten
39. 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.
Ra
Hammurabi
Art
Mesopotamians
40. 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
Aten
Old Kingdom
Pyramids
41. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Narmer or Menes
Kush
Natufian Complex
Subservient
42. 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.
Ra
Nebuchanezzar
Ramesses II
Set
43. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
City-states
Priests
Fertile Crescent
Pyramids
44. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Redistributive
Priests and Magicians
Narmer
Tutankhamen
45. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Middle East
River-Valley Civilizations
Gilgamesh
46. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Pre-dynastic Period
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mesopotamians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
47. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Ptolemies
Flint
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Civilization
48. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
War
Civilization
Animism
Iron
49. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Arameic
Human
Cuneiform
Tuthmosis III
50. 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.
8 -000 BC
Copper
Sumerian
Hyksos