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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Bronze Age
Animals
Mesopotamian
Pre-dynastic Period
2. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Semites
Subservient
Civilization
Fertile Crescent
3. 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
Amenhotep III
Thebes
Potter's Wheel
Persians
4. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Israelites
River-Valley Civilizations
Semites
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
5. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Narmer
Cuneiform
Sumerian
6. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Subservient
Nebuchanezzar
Jericho
8 -000 BC
7. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Fertile Crescent
Pre-dynastic Period
Copper
Patriarchal
8. 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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9. 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
Ancient Egyptians
Indus Valley Civilizations
Cheops or Khufu
10. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Babylonian Empire
Mythopoeic
Papyrus
Sumerian
11. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Hatshepsut
Copper
Neanderthals
Hammurabi
12. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Monotheism
Divination
Pastoralism
Arameic
13. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
War
Pastoralism
Middle East
Thebes
14. 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
Natufian Complex
Hittites
Ramesses II
15. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Natufian Complex
Judah and Israel
Tutankhamen
Flint
16. 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
Hieroglyphics
Potter's Wheel
Persians
17. 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
River-Valley Civilizations
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Shifting Cultivation
18. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Animals
Yahweh or Jehovah
Set
Egyptian
19. 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.
Ra
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Divine Right
Animals
20. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Potter's Wheel
Bronze Age
Iron
Thebes
21. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pharaoh
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Ancient Egyptians
22. The most important ruler in Babylonian history. Responsible for the codification of law. Ruled over public and private life; business - financial - and criminal law. Judgements were often harsh.
Hammurabi
Ma'at
New Kingdom
Patriarchal
23. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Obelisks
Priests and Magicians
Ptolemies
Animism
24. 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
Osiris
Israelites
Monotheism
Old Kingdom
25. Name for the Hebrew god.
Monotheism
Tuthmosis III
Ramesses II
Yahweh or Jehovah
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.
Cuneiform
War
Copper
Ten Commandments
27. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Hatshepsut
Hebrews
Thebes
Nefertiti
28. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hittites
Art
Hieroglyphics
Pharaoh
29. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Animism
Civilization
Mythopoeic
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
30. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Babylonian Empire
Ten Commandments
Hittites
Nile River
31. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Old Testament
Redistributive
Jerusalem
New Kingdom
32. 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.
Priests
Animism
Sargon I
Pharaoh
33. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Hieroglyphics
Narmer or Menes
Gilgamesh
34. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Fertile Crescent
Animals
Sumerian
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
35. 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
Nefertiti
Patriarchal
Old Kingdom
Flint
36. 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
Hammurabi
Pyramids
Israelites
37. 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.
Hittites
Sargon I
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Babylonian Empire
38. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Mesopotamian
Divine Right
Aten
Sumerian
39. 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.
Sumerians
River-Valley Civilizations
Sargon I
Sumerian
40. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Priests
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Animism
Israelites
41. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Nile River
Sargon I
Cheops or Khufu
Civilization
42. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Sumerians
Hatshepsut
Pyramids
Persians
43. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Persians
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Divine Right
44. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Pyramids
Narmer
Ra
Old Kingdom
45. 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
Pastoralism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Neanderthals
46. 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.
Sumerians
River-Valley Civilizations
Matrilocal
Indus Valley Civilizations
47. 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
Ramesses II
Arameic
Hebrews
Ptolemies
48. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Yahweh or Jehovah
Papyrus
Natufian Complex
49. 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
Tuthmosis III
Kush
Arameic
Women
50. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
6
Egyptian
Natufian Complex