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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Nile River
Animals
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Middle East
2. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Mesopotamians
Cheops or Khufu
Matrilocal
3. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Sumerian
Old Testament
Ten Commandments
4. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
Neanderthals
River-Valley Civilizations
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
5. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Mesopotamian
Old Testament
Sumerians
6. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Iron
Papyrus
Mythopoeic
6
7. 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.
Water
Sargon I
Jerusalem
City-states
8. 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
Amenhotep III
Women
Potter's Wheel
Osiris
9. 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.
Animals
Arameic
War
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
10. 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
Hatshepsut
Ancient Egyptians
Set
Egyptian
11. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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12. 'Soldiers of God'
Israelites
Potter's Wheel
Amenhotep III
Kush
13. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Narmer or Menes
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Natufian Complex
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
14. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
City-states
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Military
Judah and Israel
15. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Judah and Israel
Subservient
Ra
16. 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.
6
Priests and Magicians
Pastoralism
Old Testament
17. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Pyramids
Civilization
River-Valley Civilizations
18. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Arameic
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Narmer or Menes
19. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Pre-dynastic Period
Divination
Civilization
Military
20. 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.
Ma'at
City-states
Iron
Nile River
21. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Set
Nile River
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Hatshepsut
22. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Jerusalem
Subservient
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian
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.
Set
Cuneiform
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
River-Valley Civilizations
24. 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.
War
Aten
Middle Kingdom
Natufian Complex
25. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Priests and Magicians
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Patriarchal
26. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Civilization
Potter's Wheel
Old Kingdom
Narmer or Menes
27. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Aten
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Persians
Hieroglyphics
28. 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
Middle Kingdom
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Nile River
29. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Copper
River-Valley Civilizations
Narmer
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
30. 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.
New Kingdom
Arameic
Ptolemies
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
31. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Semites
Hammurabi
Iron
32. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Hyksos
Iron
Phoenicians
Pharaoh
33. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Hammurabi
Thebes
Old Testament
Jericho
34. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animism
Ptolemies
River-Valley Civilizations
Animals
35. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Jerusalem
Divine Right
Patriarchal
Narmer
36. 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.
Egyptian
Pre-dynastic Period
Middle East
Nefertiti
37. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Priests and Magicians
Nebuchanezzar
Old Testament
Thebes
38. 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.
Ra
Phoenicians
City-states
Egyptian
39. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Ten Commandments
Hatshepsut
Kush
Arameic
40. 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.
Matrilocal
Old Kingdom
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Obelisks
41. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Semites
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Ten Commandments
Copper
42. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Nile River
Sumerian
Copper
43. 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
Natufian Complex
Mythopoeic
Tuthmosis III
Obelisks
44. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Ziggurat
Hieroglyphics
8 -000 BC
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45. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Ptolemies
River-Valley Civilizations
Monotheism
8 -000 BC
46. 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
Priests and Magicians
Arameic
Narmer
47. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Cheops or Khufu
Hittites
Babylonian Empire
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
48. Name for the Hebrew god.
Yahweh or Jehovah
6
City-states
Hammurabi
49. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Set
Mesopotamian
Civilization
Jerusalem
50. 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
Jerusalem
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Amenhotep III
Flint