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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Name for the Hebrew god.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Yahweh or Jehovah
Water
Iron
2. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Mythopoeic
Military
Patriarchal
3. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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4. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Tuthmosis III
Nile River
Yahweh or Jehovah
Flint
5. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Thebes
Ten Commandments
Divination
Patriarchal
6. 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
Nebuchanezzar
Pharaoh
Amenhotep III
Sumerian
7. 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
Ancient Egyptians
Thebes
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Hieroglyphics
8. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Jericho
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Cuneiform
Babylonian Empire
9. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Hammurabi
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Monotheism
Subservient
10. 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
Papyrus
Copper
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
11. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Women
Sumerian
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Judah and Israel
12. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Papyrus
Priests
Thebes
13. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
6
Divination
Amenhotep III
Egyptian
14. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
War
Cheops or Khufu
Divine Right
Ra
15. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Gilgamesh
8 -000 BC
Nile River
16. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Hammurabi
Ra
City-states
Obelisks
17. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Bronze Age
Jerusalem
Priests and Magicians
Nefertiti
18. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Pre-dynastic Period
Sumerians
Thebes
Bronze Age
19. 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.
Middle East
Ra
Natufian Complex
Semites
20. 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
Sumerian
Shifting Cultivation
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
21. 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
River-Valley Civilizations
Hatshepsut
Animals
Divination
22. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Animism
Ziggurat
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
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23. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Arameic
Cheops or Khufu
Thebes
24. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Subservient
Tutankhamen
War
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
Cuneiform
Narmer
Babylonian Empire
Old Kingdom
26. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Yahweh or Jehovah
Indus Valley Civilizations
Ancient Egyptians
27. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Copper
Gilgamesh
Aten
28. 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
Human
Osiris
Hieroglyphics
River-Valley Civilizations
29. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Iron
Gilgamesh
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
30. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Copper
Women
Yahweh or Jehovah
Tuthmosis III
31. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Mesopotamians
Mythopoeic
Animism
Jericho
32. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Thebes
Animals
Sumerians
Jerusalem
33. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Art
Water
Flint
Pyramids
34. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Animals
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Cheops or Khufu
Phoenicians
35. '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
Priests
Subservient
Phoenicians
36. 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
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hammurabi
Matrilocal
37. 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
Hittites
Women
New Kingdom
38. 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
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Hittites
Neanderthals
Gilgamesh
39. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
8 -000 BC
Mythopoeic
Kush
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
40. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Bronze Age
Ra
Old Kingdom
Mythopoeic
41. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Pyramids
Mesopotamian
Narmer or Menes
Persians
42. 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
Thebes
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hatshepsut
43. 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.
Divination
8 -000 BC
Pharaoh
Fertile Crescent
44. 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
Civilization
Ramesses II
Cuneiform
Sargon I
45. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Pharaoh
Human
Divination
Civilization
46. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Bronze Age
Civilization
Amenhotep III
47. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Civilization
Human
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ma'at
48. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Thebes
Sumerians
Divination
49. 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
Animals
Indus Valley Civilizations
River-Valley Civilizations
50. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Sumerians
Subservient
Ma'at
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization