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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
New Kingdom
Middle East
Flint
2. 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
Gilgamesh
Old Kingdom
Amenhotep III
Phoenicians
3. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Human
Narmer or Menes
Priests and Magicians
4. 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.
Mythopoeic
Aten
City-states
Ancient Egyptians
5. 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
City-states
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Old Testament
6. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Phoenicians
Hebrews
Middle Kingdom
7. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Priests
Narmer
Animals
Semites
8. Egyptian Pharaoh of the New Kingdom - attempted to reduce the power of the priests by establishing a monotheistic religion dedicated to Aten - the sun-god - replacing the tradition Egyptian pantheon of gods. He established himself as the sole priest
Ziggurat
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Divination
Narmer
9. 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
Animism
Semites
Ramesses II
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
10. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
Judah and Israel
Human
Pre-dynastic Period
11. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Nebuchanezzar
Ziggurat
Pyramids
Subservient
12. Name for the Hebrew god.
Civilization
Semites
Yahweh or Jehovah
Babylonian Empire
13. 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
Egyptian
Nebuchanezzar
Natufian Complex
14. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Cheops or Khufu
Middle East
Potter's Wheel
15. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Matrilocal
Bronze Age
Hieroglyphics
Old Kingdom
16. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Persians
Tutankhamen
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Redistributive
17. 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.
Hammurabi
Ziggurat
Women
Military
18. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Military
Human
Ra
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
19. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Persians
Civilization
Subservient
Military
20. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Art
8 -000 BC
6
21. 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.
Priests
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Hyksos
Middle East
22. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Babylonian Empire
River-Valley Civilizations
Pharaoh
23. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Israelites
Hammurabi
Nebuchanezzar
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.
Military
Middle Kingdom
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Sumerians
25. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Jericho
Water
6
Phoenicians
26. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Hyksos
Pastoralism
Monotheism
Cheops or Khufu
27. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Ptolemies
Monotheism
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
28. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Ptolemies
Ancient Egyptians
City-states
29. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Papyrus
Hieroglyphics
Water
Mythopoeic
30. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Indus Valley Civilizations
8 -000 BC
Middle East
Copper
31. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Amenhotep III
Matrilocal
Tuthmosis III
32. 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
Old Kingdom
Sumerian
Tuthmosis III
Osiris
33. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Pharaoh
Flint
Pastoralism
Osiris
34. 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
New Kingdom
Tutankhamen
Osiris
35. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Old Testament
6
Cheops or Khufu
36. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Ramesses II
Hittites
Animism
Civilization
37. 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
Mesopotamian
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
38. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Sumerians
Ra
Fertile Crescent
Jerusalem
39. 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.
Jericho
Hieroglyphics
Ten Commandments
Aten
40. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Fertile Crescent
Animals
Ptolemies
Divine Right
41. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Middle Kingdom
Egyptian
Patriarchal
8 -000 BC
42. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Ramesses II
Patriarchal
Sumerians
Copper
43. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Ziggurat
Sumerians
Fertile Crescent
44. 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
Matrilocal
Water
Military
Hatshepsut
45. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Tutankhamen
Nefertiti
Hittites
46. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Bronze Age
Pyramids
Kush
Shifting Cultivation
47. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Egyptian
Narmer
Sargon I
48. 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
Ten Commandments
Persians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
49. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Shifting Cultivation
Sumerian
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
50. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Obelisks
Israelites
Priests
Ptolemies
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