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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Flint
City-states
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Mesopotamians
2. 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.
Papyrus
Cheops or Khufu
Tutankhamen
Nefertiti
3. 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
Ancient Egyptians
Amenhotep III
Patriarchal
4. 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.
Ra
Sumerians
War
New Kingdom
5. Name for the Hebrew god.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Mesopotamian
Set
6. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Thebes
Redistributive
Neanderthals
Civilization
7. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Ancient Egyptians
Ra
Military
Yahweh or Jehovah
8. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Arameic
Narmer
Ramesses II
Babylonian Empire
9. 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
Middle East
Military
Old Kingdom
Hatshepsut
10. 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
Hebrews
Pharaoh
Sumerian
11. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Narmer
Ancient Egyptians
Papyrus
Fertile Crescent
12. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Sumerians
Water
Neanderthals
Monotheism
13. 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.
Jericho
Old Testament
Yahweh or Jehovah
Pastoralism
14. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Israelites
Fertile Crescent
Priests
15. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Nile River
Fertile Crescent
Ramesses II
Pastoralism
16. 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.
Jerusalem
Art
Ancient Egyptians
Thebes
17. 'Soldiers of God'
Animals
Israelites
Narmer or Menes
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
18. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
Monotheism
Hittites
Redistributive
19. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Priests
Women
Ma'at
Narmer
20. 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
Military
Sumerians
Pastoralism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
21. 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
Military
Divine Right
Mythopoeic
Tuthmosis III
22. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Divination
Pre-dynastic Period
Matrilocal
Redistributive
23. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Ziggurat
Tuthmosis III
Osiris
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
Sumerian
Hieroglyphics
Hyksos
Osiris
25. 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.
War
Sargon I
Yahweh or Jehovah
Pharaoh
26. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Hyksos
Ancient Egyptians
Potter's Wheel
27. 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
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Hieroglyphics
War
28. 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
Priests and Magicians
Tutankhamen
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Hittites
29. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
6
Priests
Copper
Neanderthals
30. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Papyrus
Potter's Wheel
New Kingdom
Set
31. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Hebrews
Phoenicians
Flint
32. 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.
Aten
Priests
Ptolemies
Hatshepsut
33. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Nebuchanezzar
Flint
Mesopotamians
Animism
34. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Yahweh or Jehovah
Ziggurat
New Kingdom
35. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Amenhotep III
Osiris
Narmer
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
36. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ten Commandments
Kush
37. 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.
Iron
Old Testament
Sumerians
City-states
38. 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.
Ten Commandments
Nile River
Tutankhamen
Babylonian Empire
39. 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
Women
Mesopotamian
War
40. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Copper
Middle East
Patriarchal
Persians
41. 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.
Hebrews
Jerusalem
Old Testament
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
42. 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.
Matrilocal
City-states
Hebrews
Shifting Cultivation
43. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Nebuchanezzar
Pharaoh
Divine Right
44. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mythopoeic
Animism
Gilgamesh
45. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Aten
Nefertiti
Sumerians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
46. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Persians
Neanderthals
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
47. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Pyramids
Tutankhamen
Redistributive
Hieroglyphics
48. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Water
Shifting Cultivation
City-states
Pastoralism
49. 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
Phoenicians
Hebrews
Hatshepsut
Flint
50. '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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
Natufian Complex