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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Mythopoeic
Patriarchal
Monotheism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
2. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Women
Jericho
Iron
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
3. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Water
Middle East
Nefertiti
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
4. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Pyramids
Subservient
Priests and Magicians
5. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Sumerians
Hebrews
Aten
6. 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.
Sumerian
Ancient Egyptians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Ra
7. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Persians
Thebes
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
8. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Nefertiti
Priests and Magicians
Phoenicians
Bronze Age
9. 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
Old Testament
Ancient Egyptians
6
Tuthmosis III
10. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Aten
Ancient Egyptians
Human
8 -000 BC
11. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Obelisks
Semites
Cheops or Khufu
12. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Sumerians
Animism
Indus Valley Civilizations
Redistributive
13. 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
New Kingdom
Hatshepsut
Women
14. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Pyramids
Nebuchanezzar
Priests
15. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Ra
Neanderthals
Cheops or Khufu
Matrilocal
16. 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
Mesopotamian
Animals
Ramesses II
Divination
17. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Sumerian
Old Testament
Hatshepsut
18. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Persians
Ramesses II
Ma'at
Animals
19. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Mesopotamians
Civilization
Sumerians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
20. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
New Kingdom
Iron
Kush
Aten
21. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Jerusalem
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Human
22. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Sumerians
6
Gilgamesh
Pyramids
23. The Greek leaders of Egypt after it was conquered by Alexander the Great. These leaders took on much of the Egyptian culture - even calling themselves Pharaoh.
Nefertiti
Ptolemies
Kush
Animism
24. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
Pharaoh
Semites
Flint
25. 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
Ptolemies
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
26. 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
Yahweh or Jehovah
Babylonian Empire
Osiris
27. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Obelisks
Papyrus
Middle East
Pharaoh
28. 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
Hatshepsut
Obelisks
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Cheops or Khufu
29. 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.
Natufian Complex
Hebrews
Osiris
City-states
30. 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
Cheops or Khufu
8 -000 BC
Mythopoeic
31. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Set
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Pharaoh
Pyramids
32. 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
Human
Natufian Complex
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pastoralism
33. 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.
Military
Gilgamesh
Phoenicians
Art
34. 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.
Hatshepsut
Pharaoh
Hieroglyphics
Nebuchanezzar
35. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Priests
Pharaoh
Middle Kingdom
36. 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.
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Ancient Egyptians
Nile River
Hatshepsut
37. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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38. 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.
Arameic
Sargon I
Phoenicians
Military
39. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Civilization
Military
War
Neanderthals
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
Tuthmosis III
Old Testament
Patriarchal
Osiris
41. 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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Natufian Complex
Ra
Mythopoeic
42. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Pre-dynastic Period
Neanderthals
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
43. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Natufian Complex
Animals
Women
Middle Kingdom
44. Intermediate form of ecological adaptation in which temporary forms of cultivation are carried out with little impact on the natural ecology; typical of rainforest cultivators.
Sumerian
Shifting Cultivation
Hebrews
Divination
45. 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
War
Flint
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Ma'at
46. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Arameic
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Natufian Complex
47. 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
Egyptian
Sargon I
Shifting Cultivation
Old Kingdom
48. 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
Pastoralism
Jerusalem
Patriarchal
49. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Persians
Copper
Old Testament
Pyramids
50. 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.
Egyptian
Semites
Divination
Old Kingdom