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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
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Jericho
Pre-dynastic Period
Human
2. First common language used for trading amongst people of different groups - replaced Hebrew in religious texts - and was probably spoken by Jesus and his disciples.
Nile River
Arameic
Ptolemies
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
3. The loose collection of territorially small cities in Mesopotamia which lacked unity with one another due to geographic isolation. Each was dedicated to a particular god or goddess.
Old Testament
Bronze Age
Divine Right
City-states
4. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Tuthmosis III
Bronze Age
Divination
Persians
5. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
8 -000 BC
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Jericho
Nefertiti
6. 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.
Jerusalem
Priests
Fertile Crescent
Patriarchal
7. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Cheops or Khufu
Sargon I
Judah and Israel
8. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Mesopotamian
Military
Divination
9. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
City-states
8 -000 BC
Mythopoeic
Arameic
10. 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.
Sumerians
Obelisks
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Natufian Complex
11. 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.
Cheops or Khufu
Nefertiti
Divination
Pastoralism
12. 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
Tutankhamen
Sumerians
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13. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Sumerian
Judah and Israel
Cuneiform
14. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Hittites
Military
Water
15. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Sumerians
Ma'at
Hittites
Narmer
16. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Divine Right
Pyramids
Gilgamesh
17. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Patriarchal
Monotheism
Tutankhamen
Pyramids
18. 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.
Women
Sargon I
Tutankhamen
Monotheism
19. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Persians
Jerusalem
Phoenicians
War
20. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Copper
Gilgamesh
New Kingdom
21. 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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22. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Military
Egyptian
Redistributive
Nile River
23. 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
Ten Commandments
Old Testament
Priests
24. 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.
Ptolemies
Nefertiti
Divine Right
Ramesses II
25. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Shifting Cultivation
Priests and Magicians
Pastoralism
Divination
26. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Ramesses II
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hieroglyphics
27. 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.
Priests
Egyptian
Flint
Nile River
28. 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
Yahweh or Jehovah
Ten Commandments
Hatshepsut
Pre-dynastic Period
29. 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
Priests
Aten
Narmer or Menes
Indus Valley Civilizations
30. 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
Tutankhamen
Narmer
Hittites
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
31. 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.
8 -000 BC
Narmer or Menes
Babylonian Empire
Ziggurat
32. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Kush
Jerusalem
Set
City-states
33. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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34. 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
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hebrews
Ancient Egyptians
35. 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
Animals
Divine Right
Subservient
36. 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
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
War
Old Kingdom
Ten Commandments
37. 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
Osiris
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Tuthmosis III
Set
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.
Animals
Tutankhamen
Ptolemies
Hittites
39. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Animals
Middle East
40. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Arameic
Jericho
Shifting Cultivation
Sumerian
41. 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
Sumerians
Monotheism
Osiris
Ramesses II
42. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Potter's Wheel
Israelites
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Cuneiform
43. 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
Sumerian
Nile River
Tutankhamen
44. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Cuneiform
Divination
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45. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Judah and Israel
Ptolemies
Copper
Set
46. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Neanderthals
Persians
Babylonian Empire
Women
47. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
River-Valley Civilizations
Nile River
Ancient Egyptians
Thebes
48. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Persians
Babylonian Empire
Monotheism
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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hittites
Hebrews
Priests and Magicians
50. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Pastoralism
Patriarchal