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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.
Potter's Wheel
Ra
Jericho
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
2. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Babylonian Empire
Tutankhamen
Monotheism
Sumerian
3. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Set
Israelites
City-states
Matrilocal
4. 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
5. 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
Ramesses II
Middle Kingdom
Osiris
Natufian Complex
6. Name for the Hebrew god.
Flint
Yahweh or Jehovah
Pre-dynastic Period
Mesopotamian
7. 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.
Monotheism
Fertile Crescent
Pyramids
Divination
8. 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.
Ziggurat
Israelites
River-Valley Civilizations
Hyksos
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
Women
6
Jerusalem
10. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Sargon I
Jerusalem
Cuneiform
Redistributive
11. 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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Old Kingdom
Ramesses II
Women
12. 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.
Set
Mesopotamian
Middle Kingdom
Egyptian
13. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
War
Pre-dynastic Period
Ma'at
14. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Divination
Neanderthals
Copper
Sumerians
15. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Old Kingdom
Persians
Neanderthals
16. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Middle East
Mesopotamians
Hieroglyphics
Obelisks
17. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Priests and Magicians
Narmer or Menes
Art
Mesopotamian
18. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Ancient Egyptians
19. 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.
Flint
Shifting Cultivation
Pyramids
Pre-dynastic Period
20. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Ptolemies
Cuneiform
Divination
Subservient
21. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
Hieroglyphics
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
22. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Jericho
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Fertile Crescent
Nebuchanezzar
23. 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
Matrilocal
Indus Valley Civilizations
Amenhotep III
War
24. 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
Iron
Ra
Old Kingdom
25. 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
Animism
Women
Ptolemies
Hebrews
26. 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
Tutankhamen
Cuneiform
27. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
Nile River
Ziggurat
Flint
28. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Egyptian
Animism
Mesopotamians
Mythopoeic
29. 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
Narmer
Old Kingdom
Sumerian
Arameic
30. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Shifting Cultivation
Judah and Israel
31. 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
Persians
Osiris
Mesopotamians
Amenhotep III
32. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Hebrews
Middle East
Yahweh or Jehovah
Patriarchal
33. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Sumerians
Jerusalem
Neanderthals
Hammurabi
34. 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.
Sumerians
Arameic
Phoenicians
Nile River
35. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Tuthmosis III
Mesopotamian
River-Valley Civilizations
Fertile Crescent
36. 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.
Cuneiform
Hammurabi
Set
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
37. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Sumerian
Israelites
City-states
38. 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
Phoenicians
Priests
Arameic
39. 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
Tuthmosis III
Yahweh or Jehovah
Civilization
Israelites
40. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Monotheism
Human
Hammurabi
41. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Hittites
Redistributive
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Subservient
42. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Sumerians
Hyksos
Babylonian Empire
Indus Valley Civilizations
43. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Osiris
Tuthmosis III
Human
44. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Nefertiti
Narmer or Menes
45. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Fertile Crescent
Ten Commandments
Judah and Israel
Pastoralism
46. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Bronze Age
Jerusalem
War
47. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Animism
City-states
Indus Valley Civilizations
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
48. 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.
Cuneiform
Bronze Age
Sumerians
Arameic
49. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
50. 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.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hyksos
Sumerians
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV