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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Natufian Complex
Mesopotamian
Cuneiform
2. 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
Women
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Cuneiform
3. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Natufian Complex
Ten Commandments
Monotheism
4. 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.
Israelites
Indus Valley Civilizations
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Old Testament
5. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Mesopotamians
Babylonian Empire
Hieroglyphics
Animals
6. 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.
Mesopotamians
Divination
Sumerian
Amenhotep III
7. 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
Yahweh or Jehovah
Civilization
Middle Kingdom
Ramesses II
8. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Cheops or Khufu
War
Set
9. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Pre-dynastic Period
Egyptian
Mythopoeic
Aten
10. 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
Egyptian
Matrilocal
Osiris
Sumerian
11. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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12. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Middle Kingdom
Mythopoeic
Animism
Ancient Egyptians
13. 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.
Pharaoh
Middle Kingdom
Old Testament
Jerusalem
14. 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.
War
Nile River
Animism
Nefertiti
15. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Thebes
Neanderthals
Iron
Water
16. 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.
Pharaoh
Set
Narmer or Menes
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
17. 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.
Aten
Patriarchal
Animism
Hatshepsut
18. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
War
Jericho
Hieroglyphics
Jerusalem
19. 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.
New Kingdom
Ra
Babylonian Empire
Nefertiti
20. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Tutankhamen
Priests and Magicians
Priests
Hieroglyphics
21. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Jericho
Subservient
Old Kingdom
Copper
22. 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.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Shifting Cultivation
Human
Pyramids
23. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Gilgamesh
Judah and Israel
Neanderthals
Water
24. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Iron
Papyrus
Pre-dynastic Period
Mesopotamians
25. 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.
Pastoralism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
City-states
Tutankhamen
26. 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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27. 'Soldiers of God'
Yahweh or Jehovah
Israelites
Egyptian
Hebrews
28. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Arameic
Art
Redistributive
29. Name for the Hebrew god.
Neanderthals
Aten
Iron
Yahweh or Jehovah
30. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Gilgamesh
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Ptolemies
Sumerians
31. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Potter's Wheel
Water
Obelisks
Hittites
32. 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.
Israelites
Ziggurat
8 -000 BC
Cheops or Khufu
33. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Flint
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Natufian Complex
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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Jerusalem
Nefertiti
Priests
35. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Judah and Israel
Israelites
Amenhotep III
36. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Babylonian Empire
Thebes
Shifting Cultivation
Egyptian
37. 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
Old Kingdom
8 -000 BC
Priests and Magicians
Tuthmosis III
38. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Divination
Pastoralism
Narmer or Menes
39. 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.
Ptolemies
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Indus Valley Civilizations
8 -000 BC
40. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Priests
Art
Indus Valley Civilizations
Nefertiti
41. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Hebrews
Yahweh or Jehovah
Middle Kingdom
42. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Iron
Kush
Ra
Judah and Israel
43. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Obelisks
Jericho
Nefertiti
Thebes
44. 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
Divination
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Priests
45. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Matrilocal
Pastoralism
Thebes
Tutankhamen
46. 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
Sumerian
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
47. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Natufian Complex
Pre-dynastic Period
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Middle East
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
Pre-dynastic Period
Indus Valley Civilizations
Women
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
49. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Narmer or Menes
Yahweh or Jehovah
Ptolemies
50. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Animism
Persians
Gilgamesh