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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Cuneiform
Mesopotamians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Amenhotep III
2. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Copper
Egyptian
Nebuchanezzar
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
3. 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.
Nile River
Pharaoh
Jericho
Babylonian Empire
4. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Animism
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Iron
Phoenicians
5. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Judah and Israel
Matrilocal
6. Migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states; established the first form of writing - cuneiform.
Sumerians
Divination
Hyksos
Set
7. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Jerusalem
Natufian Complex
Sargon I
8. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Middle Kingdom
Fertile Crescent
Middle East
9. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Arameic
Middle East
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
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.
Tuthmosis III
Hammurabi
Hyksos
Bronze Age
11. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamians
Mesopotamian
Military
Patriarchal
12. 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
Obelisks
Priests
Subservient
13. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Old Testament
New Kingdom
Divination
14. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Patriarchal
Narmer
Pyramids
Osiris
15. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Kush
Pyramids
Hyksos
River-Valley Civilizations
16. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Ma'at
8 -000 BC
Babylonian Empire
Hyksos
17. 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
Civilization
Hatshepsut
Hammurabi
Mesopotamian
18. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Jerusalem
Patriarchal
Animals
Thebes
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
Priests
Jericho
8 -000 BC
New Kingdom
20. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Jericho
Semites
Women
Mythopoeic
21. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
City-states
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Pastoralism
Neanderthals
22. 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
Natufian Complex
Ancient Egyptians
Mythopoeic
Hittites
23. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Pyramids
Mesopotamians
Semites
Mythopoeic
24. 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
Pastoralism
Pharaoh
Nile River
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
25. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Priests
Divine Right
River-Valley Civilizations
Civilization
26. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Egyptian
Hammurabi
War
27. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Shifting Cultivation
War
Mythopoeic
Fertile Crescent
28. 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.
Pharaoh
Pastoralism
Set
Ten Commandments
29. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Sumerians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Pharaoh
Matrilocal
30. 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.
Kush
Nefertiti
Pastoralism
Redistributive
31. 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
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Tutankhamen
Obelisks
Osiris
32. 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.
Set
Yahweh or Jehovah
Flint
Middle Kingdom
33. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Tutankhamen
City-states
Kush
Sumerian
34. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Hammurabi
Neanderthals
Tuthmosis III
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35. 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
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ten Commandments
Jerusalem
36. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ten Commandments
Gilgamesh
Divination
37. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Natufian Complex
Narmer or Menes
Jerusalem
Cheops or Khufu
38. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Mesopotamians
Yahweh or Jehovah
Sargon I
Art
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.
Nefertiti
Ra
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Matrilocal
40. 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.
Sumerian
Nebuchanezzar
River-Valley Civilizations
Matrilocal
41. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Phoenicians
Nile River
Art
Iron
42. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
War
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Hatshepsut
Human
43. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Nebuchanezzar
Egyptian
Potter's Wheel
44. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Tutankhamen
Sargon I
Narmer or Menes
45. 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.
Priests
Mesopotamian
Sargon I
Hieroglyphics
46. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
Flint
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mythopoeic
47. 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.
Thebes
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Arameic
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
48. 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
Mythopoeic
Tuthmosis III
8 -000 BC
Shifting Cultivation
49. 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.
Hammurabi
Aten
Old Kingdom
Judah and Israel
50. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Ramesses II
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Middle East
Women