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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Narmer
Fertile Crescent
Divination
2. 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.
Hyksos
Copper
Papyrus
Nebuchanezzar
3. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Sumerians
Kush
Hatshepsut
Neanderthals
4. 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
6
Obelisks
Judah and Israel
5. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Babylonian Empire
Gilgamesh
Jericho
Indus Valley Civilizations
6. Name for the Hebrew god.
Flint
Obelisks
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Yahweh or Jehovah
7. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Hieroglyphics
River-Valley Civilizations
Pyramids
8. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Civilization
Animism
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
9. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Subservient
Animism
Thebes
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
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
Copper
Narmer
New Kingdom
Hebrews
11. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
New Kingdom
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Sumerians
Set
12. 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
Subservient
Hyksos
Civilization
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
13. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Tuthmosis III
Judah and Israel
Old Testament
Hyksos
14. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Babylonian Empire
Semites
Hittites
Sumerians
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.
Gilgamesh
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Patriarchal
16. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Hebrews
Sumerians
Jericho
Copper
17. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Sumerians
Papyrus
City-states
Middle East
18. 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
Cheops or Khufu
Indus Valley Civilizations
Redistributive
19. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Sumerians
Patriarchal
Hebrews
City-states
20. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Shifting Cultivation
Civilization
Nile River
War
21. 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.
Bronze Age
Flint
Sumerians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
22. 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
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hebrews
Human
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
23. The Egyptian concept of harmony and order - justice and truth. Implied a divine force for harmony and stability which emanated from the beginning of time itself. Good rule by pharaoh signified its presence
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24. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Hyksos
Water
Sumerians
New Kingdom
25. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Tuthmosis III
8 -000 BC
Hittites
Sumerian
26. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pastoralism
Hammurabi
27. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Osiris
Narmer or Menes
Nefertiti
Middle Kingdom
28. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Pastoralism
Middle Kingdom
Cheops or Khufu
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
29. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Human
Sumerians
Divination
Women
30. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Narmer
Ma'at
Hebrews
Matrilocal
31. 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
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamians
Tuthmosis III
Babylonian Empire
32. 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
Narmer or Menes
8 -000 BC
Aten
33. 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
Pharaoh
Bronze Age
Sumerian
Hatshepsut
34. 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.
Middle East
Old Testament
Pyramids
6
35. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Divine Right
Pyramids
Bronze Age
36. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Pharaoh
Thebes
Fertile Crescent
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
37. 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.
Subservient
Ra
Matrilocal
Ziggurat
38. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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39. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Pastoralism
Cuneiform
Judah and Israel
Pharaoh
40. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Thebes
Ra
Phoenicians
Natufian Complex
41. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Phoenicians
War
Arameic
42. 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.
Mesopotamians
New Kingdom
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sargon I
43. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Babylonian Empire
Animism
Set
44. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Divine Right
Hieroglyphics
War
Babylonian Empire
45. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Monotheism
Hatshepsut
Bronze Age
Nebuchanezzar
46. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Civilization
Thebes
6
47. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Hieroglyphics
Ancient Egyptians
Redistributive
Jericho
48. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Shifting Cultivation
Mesopotamians
Military
49. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Hatshepsut
Kush
Women
Thebes
50. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Monotheism
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pharaoh