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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Patriarchal
Middle Kingdom
Narmer or Menes
2. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Middle Kingdom
Nefertiti
Tutankhamen
3. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Bronze Age
Mesopotamians
Cheops or Khufu
Ancient Egyptians
4. 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.
Papyrus
Jericho
Priests
Potter's Wheel
5. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Shifting Cultivation
Flint
Middle East
Jerusalem
6. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Narmer or Menes
Nefertiti
Pharaoh
7. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Sumerians
Patriarchal
Thebes
Military
8. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Mythopoeic
Pharaoh
6
Animals
9. 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.
Sargon I
Aten
Pre-dynastic Period
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
10. 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
Old Kingdom
Monotheism
Hittites
11. 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
Hatshepsut
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hebrews
Divination
12. 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
Water
Amenhotep III
Mesopotamians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
13. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Hatshepsut
Ancient Egyptians
Ptolemies
Pyramids
14. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Divine Right
Natufian Complex
Cuneiform
Civilization
15. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Fertile Crescent
Bronze Age
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
8 -000 BC
16. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Sumerian
Yahweh or Jehovah
Water
Nile River
17. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Natufian Complex
6
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
18. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Old Testament
Ziggurat
Subservient
Gilgamesh
19. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Middle East
Thebes
20. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Divine Right
Monotheism
Obelisks
Ma'at
21. 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.
Ten Commandments
Hittites
Tutankhamen
Animals
22. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Old Kingdom
Nile River
Divine Right
Pharaoh
23. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Ramesses II
Mesopotamian
Cuneiform
Flint
24. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Priests and Magicians
8 -000 BC
Hatshepsut
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
25. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Kush
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Redistributive
River-Valley Civilizations
26. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
City-states
Pastoralism
Pharaoh
27. 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
Gilgamesh
Babylonian Empire
Subservient
28. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Mesopotamian
Sumerian
Women
Cuneiform
29. 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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30. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Art
8 -000 BC
Tuthmosis III
Narmer
31. 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
Human
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Ten Commandments
Hebrews
32. 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.
Amenhotep III
Matrilocal
War
Divination
33. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Phoenicians
Potter's Wheel
Human
Sumerians
34. 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
Kush
Amenhotep III
Hebrews
35. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Pharaoh
Sumerians
6
Arameic
36. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Thebes
Matrilocal
Hittites
Women
37. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Fertile Crescent
Matrilocal
Ra
Neanderthals
38. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Divine Right
Divination
Ra
39. 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.
Egyptian
Fertile Crescent
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Nefertiti
40. 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.
Papyrus
Thebes
Persians
Old Testament
41. 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.
Sargon I
Thebes
Flint
Monotheism
42. 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
Jericho
Old Kingdom
Sargon I
43. 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.
Bronze Age
Ziggurat
Copper
Egyptian
44. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Priests
Hieroglyphics
Flint
Matrilocal
45. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Art
Middle Kingdom
Nebuchanezzar
Sumerians
46. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Arameic
Set
Nebuchanezzar
Narmer
47. 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.
Sargon I
Egyptian
Mesopotamian
Sumerians
48. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
6
Water
Pyramids
49. 'Soldiers of God'
Israelites
Shifting Cultivation
Divine Right
Thebes
50. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Iron
Hebrews
Art
Persians