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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Potter's Wheel
Phoenicians
Nebuchanezzar
Old Testament
2. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Nile River
Judah and Israel
Set
Natufian Complex
3. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Neanderthals
Iron
Jerusalem
War
4. 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.
Civilization
Nefertiti
Nebuchanezzar
Pre-dynastic Period
5. 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
Narmer
Natufian Complex
Indus Valley Civilizations
Tuthmosis III
6. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Hammurabi
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Divination
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
7. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Ten Commandments
Pastoralism
Nile River
8. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Semites
Potter's Wheel
Subservient
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
9. Following the defeat of the foreign Hyksos rulers - this period was the most prosperous time of Ancient Egyptian history. It saw the expansion of the Egyptian Empire to Nubia in the south as well as to the near east through warfare gaining riches and
New Kingdom
Water
8 -000 BC
Women
10. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Kush
Nile River
Egyptian
11. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Pyramids
Natufian Complex
Human
Narmer or Menes
12. 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.
Aten
Phoenicians
Old Testament
Iron
13. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Sumerians
Ancient Egyptians
Aten
14. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Shifting Cultivation
Priests and Magicians
Thebes
Cheops or Khufu
15. 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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16. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
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Animals
Narmer
Mesopotamians
17. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Jericho
Persians
Patriarchal
Art
18. 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.
Mythopoeic
Phoenicians
Semites
Hammurabi
19. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
War
Thebes
Hieroglyphics
20. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Cheops or Khufu
Ptolemies
Women
Hittites
21. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Hatshepsut
Pre-dynastic Period
Hittites
Divine Right
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.
Cheops or Khufu
Sargon I
Ancient Egyptians
Priests
23. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Sumerian
War
Cuneiform
Old Kingdom
24. 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
New Kingdom
Bronze Age
Old Kingdom
Persians
25. 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
Hyksos
Amenhotep III
Narmer or Menes
Ptolemies
26. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Narmer
Middle East
Hebrews
Subservient
27. 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.
Narmer
Hittites
Priests
Hieroglyphics
28. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Matrilocal
Cheops or Khufu
Human
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
29. 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
Ten Commandments
Divination
Hebrews
Old Testament
30. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Middle East
Sargon I
Ten Commandments
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
31. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pharaoh
Pastoralism
Middle Kingdom
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
32. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Priests and Magicians
Judah and Israel
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Cuneiform
33. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Thebes
Mesopotamian
Women
34. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Gilgamesh
Fertile Crescent
Nebuchanezzar
Papyrus
35. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Sumerian
Mesopotamians
Iron
Ptolemies
36. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Human
Fertile Crescent
Hyksos
Semites
37. 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
Hammurabi
Priests
City-states
38. 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.
Hieroglyphics
Military
Ptolemies
Middle East
39. 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.
Osiris
Women
Divination
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
40. Period of Ancient Egyptian history during which permanent settlements were established - stone and crafts work developed - burial practices moved to the outer edges of the territories - and the beginnings of a belief in the afterlife became evident.
Women
Pre-dynastic Period
Judah and Israel
Middle East
41. 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
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Papyrus
Fertile Crescent
Judah and Israel
42. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Thebes
Jericho
Sumerian
Copper
43. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Animism
Aten
44. 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.
Women
Set
Mesopotamians
Sumerians
45. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Potter's Wheel
City-states
Subservient
Pharaoh
46. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Civilization
Bronze Age
Neanderthals
Mesopotamian
47. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Sumerian
Yahweh or Jehovah
Redistributive
Copper
48. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Sumerians
Divine Right
Obelisks
Sumerian
49. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
8 -000 BC
Sumerians
Pastoralism
Cheops or Khufu
50. 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.
Mesopotamian
Gilgamesh
Hittites
Copper
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