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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Obelisks
Hieroglyphics
Flint
Jericho
2. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Ziggurat
Persians
Sumerians
3. 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
Sumerians
Matrilocal
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
4. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Ancient Egyptians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Nebuchanezzar
Babylonian Empire
5. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
Ancient Egyptians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Jerusalem
6. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Neanderthals
Ramesses II
Tutankhamen
7. 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
Monotheism
Indus Valley Civilizations
Priests and Magicians
Matrilocal
8. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Ptolemies
Egyptian
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ramesses II
9. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Gilgamesh
Neanderthals
Ra
10. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Babylonian Empire
Old Testament
Ancient Egyptians
11. 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.
8 -000 BC
Hyksos
Middle Kingdom
Egyptian
12. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
Nebuchanezzar
Tutankhamen
Copper
13. 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
War
Civilization
Old Testament
14. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Nile River
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Bronze Age
Mesopotamian
15. Name for the Hebrew god.
Tuthmosis III
Indus Valley Civilizations
Yahweh or Jehovah
Israelites
16. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Tuthmosis III
Monotheism
Shifting Cultivation
17. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Pre-dynastic Period
Patriarchal
Ten Commandments
Art
18. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Civilization
Ziggurat
Matrilocal
Cheops or Khufu
19. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Pre-dynastic Period
Subservient
Ziggurat
Hyksos
20. 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
Hebrews
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Art
Water
21. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Israelites
Hebrews
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
22. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Divine Right
Military
Human
Pharaoh
23. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Water
Nebuchanezzar
Iron
Fertile Crescent
24. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Redistributive
Animals
Hyksos
25. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Potter's Wheel
Matrilocal
6
Ten Commandments
26. 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.
Animism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mesopotamian
Priests
27. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Women
Bronze Age
Potter's Wheel
28. 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.
Kush
Mythopoeic
Hebrews
Pre-dynastic Period
29. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
New Kingdom
8 -000 BC
Nefertiti
Kush
30. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Matrilocal
Aten
Military
Middle East
31. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Hatshepsut
Judah and Israel
Art
Nile River
32. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Judah and Israel
Tutankhamen
Pastoralism
War
33. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Pastoralism
Animism
Papyrus
Pharaoh
34. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Natufian Complex
Sumerians
Divine Right
Egyptian
35. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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36. 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.
Cuneiform
Nile River
Jericho
Matrilocal
37. 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
Ramesses II
Ziggurat
Hatshepsut
Hittites
38. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Art
Pharaoh
Hatshepsut
39. 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.
Matrilocal
Cuneiform
Middle Kingdom
Jerusalem
40. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Amenhotep III
Monotheism
Potter's Wheel
Subservient
41. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Water
Jericho
Fertile Crescent
Papyrus
42. 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
Cheops or Khufu
Mesopotamian
Tuthmosis III
Obelisks
43. 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
Pastoralism
Civilization
Yahweh or Jehovah
Osiris
44. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Narmer
Military
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45. 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.
Nile River
Redistributive
Ptolemies
Iron
46. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Copper
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Water
Iron
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.
Sargon I
Iron
Ramesses II
Mythopoeic
48. 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
Pharaoh
Sumerian
Old Kingdom
Iron
49. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Persians
Divine Right
Pastoralism
Women
50. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Civilization
Cheops or Khufu
Subservient
Sumerians
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