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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
8 -000 BC
Animism
Bronze Age
2. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Sumerians
Neanderthals
Set
Babylonian Empire
3. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
4. 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
Narmer
Hebrews
Shifting Cultivation
5. 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
Divine Right
City-states
New Kingdom
6. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Patriarchal
Fertile Crescent
Priests and Magicians
Women
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.
Tutankhamen
Natufian Complex
Amenhotep III
Aten
8. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Middle Kingdom
Ra
Nile River
Mythopoeic
9. 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
Copper
Patriarchal
Old Testament
Hatshepsut
10. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Hebrews
Sumerians
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Indus Valley Civilizations
11. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Tuthmosis III
Amenhotep III
Cheops or Khufu
12. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Ra
Semites
Mesopotamians
Priests and Magicians
13. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
Narmer
Egyptian
Sargon I
14. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Women
Hatshepsut
8 -000 BC
15. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Priests and Magicians
Iron
Matrilocal
Papyrus
16. 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
Old Kingdom
Hittites
New Kingdom
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
17. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Thebes
Priests and Magicians
Animals
Aten
18. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Animism
Narmer or Menes
Shifting Cultivation
Hebrews
19. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Old Testament
Old Kingdom
Osiris
20. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Thebes
Sumerian
Art
21. 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.
Sumerians
Divination
Hammurabi
Old Kingdom
22. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Osiris
Divination
Hyksos
23. 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.
Animism
River-Valley Civilizations
Babylonian Empire
Aten
24. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Middle East
Ziggurat
Monotheism
25. 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
Gilgamesh
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Tutankhamen
Ziggurat
26. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Nefertiti
Yahweh or Jehovah
Cuneiform
Nebuchanezzar
27. 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.
Subservient
Civilization
Ziggurat
Art
28. 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.
Natufian Complex
Sumerians
Divine Right
Nile River
29. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
6
Ramesses II
Pharaoh
Priests
30. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Hieroglyphics
Sumerians
Aten
Copper
31. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Copper
Patriarchal
Set
32. 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.
Obelisks
Mesopotamian
Nile River
Neanderthals
33. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Priests
Narmer
City-states
Art
34. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
6
Women
Civilization
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
35. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Nile River
Natufian Complex
Ptolemies
Iron
36. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Middle Kingdom
Old Testament
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Animism
37. 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.
Nefertiti
Middle East
Sumerians
Babylonian Empire
38. 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
Narmer
Divine Right
Iron
39. 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.
Hyksos
Animals
Pharaoh
River-Valley Civilizations
40. 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
Hieroglyphics
Judah and Israel
Osiris
Kush
41. 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.
Pharaoh
Middle Kingdom
Tuthmosis III
Ptolemies
42. 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
Nile River
Ancient Egyptians
Yahweh or Jehovah
43. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Civilization
Pre-dynastic Period
Copper
Obelisks
44. 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
Divination
New Kingdom
Ptolemies
Shifting Cultivation
45. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Narmer or Menes
Thebes
Mesopotamians
Flint
46. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Aten
Redistributive
Phoenicians
Animism
47. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Potter's Wheel
New Kingdom
Pastoralism
48. 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
Judah and Israel
Flint
Subservient
49. 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.
Ramesses II
Hyksos
Hieroglyphics
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
50. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Thebes
Sumerians
War
Papyrus