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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Pastoralism
Human
Animals
Priests
2. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Arameic
Old Testament
Civilization
Cuneiform
3. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Papyrus
Cheops or Khufu
Babylonian Empire
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4. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Gilgamesh
Bronze Age
Animals
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
5. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Hittites
Neanderthals
6. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Papyrus
Ten Commandments
Tutankhamen
Sumerians
7. 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
Cheops or Khufu
Pharaoh
Women
8. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Semites
Iron
Animism
Tuthmosis III
9. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Indus Valley Civilizations
River-Valley Civilizations
Neanderthals
Kush
10. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Tutankhamen
Iron
Tuthmosis III
Middle East
11. 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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12. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Water
Cheops or Khufu
Hammurabi
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
13. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Set
Ma'at
Patriarchal
Jericho
14. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Animism
Nebuchanezzar
Mesopotamians
Women
15. 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.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Priests
Ma'at
Tutankhamen
16. 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.
Ten Commandments
River-Valley Civilizations
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Neanderthals
17. 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.
Animism
Divine Right
Divination
Gilgamesh
18. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Ancient Egyptians
Babylonian Empire
Animals
Mesopotamian
19. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
City-states
Mesopotamians
8 -000 BC
20. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Judah and Israel
Arameic
Nefertiti
21. 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
Semites
Old Testament
Old Kingdom
6
22. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Potter's Wheel
Kush
Nile River
23. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Shifting Cultivation
Neanderthals
Obelisks
Babylonian Empire
24. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Semites
Ma'at
Indus Valley Civilizations
25. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Set
Papyrus
Middle Kingdom
Water
26. 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
Amenhotep III
Osiris
Hatshepsut
Arameic
27. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Mesopotamians
Hammurabi
Ten Commandments
Priests and Magicians
28. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Kush
Papyrus
Patriarchal
Priests and Magicians
29. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Thebes
Divine Right
Semites
30. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Ptolemies
Narmer or Menes
Ramesses II
Jericho
31. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Art
Mesopotamians
Obelisks
32. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Subservient
Phoenicians
Jerusalem
33. 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.
Semites
Old Testament
Yahweh or Jehovah
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
34. Name for the Hebrew god.
Animals
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hammurabi
Ma'at
35. 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.
Pyramids
Matrilocal
Sumerians
Aten
36. 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
Shifting Cultivation
City-states
Yahweh or Jehovah
37. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Phoenicians
Israelites
Copper
38. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Jericho
Subservient
Fertile Crescent
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
39. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Thebes
Hittites
Ptolemies
Bronze Age
40. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hatshepsut
Fertile Crescent
Hieroglyphics
Old Kingdom
41. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Animism
Ziggurat
Semites
42. 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
Sumerians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Potter's Wheel
43. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Hebrews
Iron
Redistributive
Copper
44. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Pre-dynastic Period
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Mythopoeic
Old Kingdom
45. 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.
Nile River
Kush
Ten Commandments
Osiris
46. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Sargon I
Mythopoeic
Sumerians
Women
47. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Ma'at
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Civilization
6
48. 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
Copper
Mesopotamians
Phoenicians
Hebrews
49. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Middle East
Sumerian
Iron
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
50. 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
Ten Commandments
Narmer or Menes
Amenhotep III
Ptolemies