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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Matrilocal
Ziggurat
Nefertiti
Monotheism
2. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Civilization
Gilgamesh
Ptolemies
Military
3. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Animals
Old Kingdom
Cuneiform
4. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Osiris
Subservient
Hyksos
Ma'at
5. 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
Egyptian
Hyksos
Water
Osiris
6. 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
Military
Hebrews
Persians
Divine Right
7. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pharaoh
Nebuchanezzar
Pyramids
Ra
8. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Divine Right
Ma'at
Natufian Complex
War
9. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
River-Valley Civilizations
Potter's Wheel
Priests and Magicians
Middle East
10. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Obelisks
Phoenicians
Flint
11. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hyksos
Amenhotep III
Gilgamesh
12. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Subservient
Animals
Redistributive
Shifting Cultivation
13. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Redistributive
Animism
Monotheism
14. 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.
Nefertiti
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Hammurabi
Priests and Magicians
15. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Cheops or Khufu
Women
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Nebuchanezzar
16. 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.
Egyptian
Bronze Age
Phoenicians
Flint
17. 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.
War
City-states
River-Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamians
18. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Nebuchanezzar
Egyptian
Amenhotep III
Bronze Age
19. 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
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Amenhotep III
Mesopotamians
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
20. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Patriarchal
Sumerian
Hatshepsut
21. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Monotheism
Water
Ptolemies
Iron
22. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Potter's Wheel
Sumerians
Obelisks
River-Valley Civilizations
23. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Persians
Iron
Fertile Crescent
Animals
24. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
Animals
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Old Kingdom
25. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Mesopotamians
Arameic
Narmer
Cheops or Khufu
26. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Ramesses II
Animals
27. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Obelisks
Thebes
Sumerian
28. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Kush
Iron
Set
Mesopotamian
29. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Hittites
Hyksos
City-states
30. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Pastoralism
Israelites
Ten Commandments
Civilization
31. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Nefertiti
Neanderthals
Water
32. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
New Kingdom
Tuthmosis III
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Ten Commandments
33. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Babylonian Empire
Papyrus
Mesopotamian
Ancient Egyptians
34. 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.
Pyramids
Ziggurat
Papyrus
Hatshepsut
35. 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.
Ziggurat
Old Testament
Redistributive
River-Valley Civilizations
36. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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37. 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
Women
Fertile Crescent
Bronze Age
38. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
River-Valley Civilizations
Mythopoeic
Natufian Complex
39. 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.
Narmer or Menes
New Kingdom
Military
Ra
40. 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
Persians
Semites
Tuthmosis III
Women
41. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Obelisks
Art
Pharaoh
Sumerian
42. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Aten
Neanderthals
Mesopotamians
Gilgamesh
43. 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.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Ramesses II
Hyksos
Priests
44. 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.
Mythopoeic
Mesopotamians
Military
Tutankhamen
45. 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
Tuthmosis III
Papyrus
New Kingdom
Redistributive
46. 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.
Sumerian
Old Kingdom
Israelites
Pharaoh
47. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Aten
Israelites
Ten Commandments
48. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Nile River
Monotheism
Military
Old Testament
49. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Animals
Bronze Age
Narmer or Menes
8 -000 BC
50. 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.
Subservient
River-Valley Civilizations
Arameic
Mesopotamians