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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Sumerians
Old Testament
Fertile Crescent
Pastoralism
2. 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.
Bronze Age
Phoenicians
Matrilocal
Sargon I
3. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Arameic
Ramesses II
Pastoralism
4. 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.
Phoenicians
Hittites
Pastoralism
Sumerians
5. 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.
Mesopotamian
Nefertiti
Mesopotamians
Copper
6. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Neanderthals
Narmer or Menes
Matrilocal
Pre-dynastic Period
7. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Sumerians
Kush
Mesopotamian
Cheops or Khufu
8. 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.
Civilization
City-states
Hatshepsut
Hieroglyphics
9. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Matrilocal
Mesopotamians
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Hebrews
10. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Pyramids
Semites
Cheops or Khufu
Ancient Egyptians
11. 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.
Subservient
Tutankhamen
Mythopoeic
City-states
12. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Set
Egyptian
Yahweh or Jehovah
Mesopotamian
13. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
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Ptolemies
Sumerian
Potter's Wheel
14. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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15. 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
Babylonian Empire
Subservient
8 -000 BC
Hebrews
16. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Sargon I
Military
Narmer
Israelites
17. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Thebes
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
18. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Hieroglyphics
Mythopoeic
Potter's Wheel
War
19. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Obelisks
Military
Animism
Ptolemies
20. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Natufian Complex
Fertile Crescent
Divination
Potter's Wheel
21. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Mesopotamians
Animals
Ten Commandments
Pre-dynastic Period
22. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Patriarchal
Persians
Mythopoeic
Narmer
23. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Narmer
Kush
Pharaoh
24. 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
Papyrus
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Middle Kingdom
Human
25. 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.
Ptolemies
Middle Kingdom
Tutankhamen
Tuthmosis III
26. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Sumerians
Hammurabi
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Water
27. 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.
Ten Commandments
Middle Kingdom
Sargon I
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
28. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Cheops or Khufu
Civilization
Patriarchal
City-states
29. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Nile River
Mythopoeic
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Papyrus
30. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Mythopoeic
Old Kingdom
Subservient
Civilization
31. 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
Amenhotep III
Sargon I
Fertile Crescent
32. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Arameic
Art
City-states
33. 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.
New Kingdom
War
Aten
Sumerians
34. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Divination
Monotheism
8 -000 BC
Ancient Egyptians
35. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Sargon I
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Military
Women
36. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
War
Women
Jericho
37. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Ancient Egyptians
Pre-dynastic Period
Osiris
38. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Nebuchanezzar
Persians
Sumerians
Women
39. 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.
Gilgamesh
Middle Kingdom
Ra
Sumerian
40. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Indus Valley Civilizations
Amenhotep III
Hyksos
41. 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
Osiris
Jericho
Ramesses II
Amenhotep III
42. 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.
Water
Human
Mesopotamian
Hyksos
43. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Copper
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Divine Right
44. 'Soldiers of God'
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Israelites
Nefertiti
Cuneiform
45. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Animism
Water
New Kingdom
Matrilocal
46. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Military
Mesopotamian
Copper
Hittites
47. 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.
Arameic
Sumerians
Monotheism
Fertile Crescent
48. 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.
Arameic
Hammurabi
Babylonian Empire
Human
49. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Women
Redistributive
Mythopoeic
Human
50. 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
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Hatshepsut
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