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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
8 -000 BC
Cheops or Khufu
Middle Kingdom
2. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Copper
Papyrus
Priests and Magicians
Obelisks
3. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Narmer
Babylonian Empire
Water
Nefertiti
4. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Israelites
Ptolemies
Hyksos
Nebuchanezzar
5. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Sumerians
Potter's Wheel
Shifting Cultivation
Ma'at
6. 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.
Ptolemies
Mesopotamians
Kush
Ramesses II
7. 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
Judah and Israel
Monotheism
Hebrews
Nefertiti
8. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Gilgamesh
Bronze Age
Human
9. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Amenhotep III
Kush
8 -000 BC
Hatshepsut
10. 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
Ramesses II
Persians
Indus Valley Civilizations
11. 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
Ramesses II
Ra
Old Kingdom
Egyptian
12. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Gilgamesh
Ziggurat
Human
13. 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
Papyrus
Osiris
Ra
14. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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15. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Subservient
Water
Patriarchal
Ten Commandments
16. 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.
Arameic
Hammurabi
Divination
Flint
17. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Cheops or Khufu
Ten Commandments
Sumerians
Natufian Complex
18. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Sumerians
Animism
Human
Mesopotamian
19. 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
Priests
Ten Commandments
Set
20. 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.
Phoenicians
Military
Set
Civilization
21. 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
Osiris
Yahweh or Jehovah
Pharaoh
Divine Right
22. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Middle East
Sumerians
Narmer
Arameic
23. 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
Middle East
Thebes
Ancient Egyptians
Indus Valley Civilizations
24. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
New Kingdom
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Art
25. 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.
Subservient
Pharaoh
Flint
Matrilocal
26. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Kush
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Obelisks
27. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Judah and Israel
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Hatshepsut
Cuneiform
28. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Subservient
Ra
Amenhotep III
29. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Human
Nebuchanezzar
Flint
30. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Divination
Animals
Animism
River-Valley Civilizations
31. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Sumerians
Persians
Priests and Magicians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
32. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Mythopoeic
Nile River
Semites
Ten Commandments
33. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Copper
Mesopotamian
Flint
Matrilocal
34. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Semites
New Kingdom
Narmer or Menes
35. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Cuneiform
Mesopotamian
Natufian Complex
Pastoralism
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.
Gilgamesh
Cheops or Khufu
Hieroglyphics
Mesopotamian
37. 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.
City-states
Sumerians
Middle East
Shifting Cultivation
38. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Pyramids
Art
Neanderthals
Narmer
39. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Priests
Ma'at
Hittites
40. 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
Water
Art
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Israelites
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.
Animism
Potter's Wheel
Pastoralism
Ancient Egyptians
42. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Narmer
Nile River
Set
Flint
43. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Nile River
Priests and Magicians
Iron
Narmer
44. 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
Ten Commandments
Amenhotep III
Semites
Mesopotamians
45. 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.
Semites
Pre-dynastic Period
Pharaoh
Old Testament
46. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Middle East
Set
Fertile Crescent
Divine Right
47. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hyksos
Old Kingdom
48. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Women
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Natufian Complex
49. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Subservient
Old Kingdom
Mesopotamians
50. 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.
Hieroglyphics
Tuthmosis III
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
River-Valley Civilizations
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