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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Animism
Ma'at
Sargon I
2. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Thebes
Water
Animals
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
3. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Aten
Military
Nebuchanezzar
4. 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
Semites
Copper
Bronze Age
Ramesses II
5. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
Pharaoh
Tutankhamen
Women
6. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
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Persians
Narmer
Neanderthals
7. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Aten
Pastoralism
Cuneiform
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
8. 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
Nile River
Judah and Israel
Monotheism
Hittites
9. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Jerusalem
Judah and Israel
Art
Hebrews
10. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Women
Priests
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Egyptian
11. 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.
Egyptian
Priests
Indus Valley Civilizations
Water
12. 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.
Judah and Israel
Nefertiti
Sumerians
New Kingdom
13. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Pre-dynastic Period
War
Subservient
Yahweh or Jehovah
14. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Redistributive
Natufian Complex
Old Testament
15. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Ancient Egyptians
Women
Animals
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
16. 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
Water
Flint
Ptolemies
17. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Papyrus
Priests
Mesopotamians
18. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Cheops or Khufu
Water
Kush
19. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Old Testament
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Fertile Crescent
Egyptian
20. 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.
Women
Mythopoeic
Nile River
Flint
21. Name for the Hebrew god.
War
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hebrews
Sumerian
22. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Monotheism
Persians
Natufian Complex
23. 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.
Old Testament
Matrilocal
Narmer or Menes
Hammurabi
24. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Iron
Hyksos
Potter's Wheel
Priests and Magicians
25. 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
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Middle Kingdom
Indus Valley Civilizations
Human
26. 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
River-Valley Civilizations
Tutankhamen
Ramesses II
27. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Nefertiti
Papyrus
Tutankhamen
Monotheism
28. 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
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Nefertiti
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Tutankhamen
29. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Sumerians
Sumerians
Hittites
30. 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.
City-states
Jerusalem
Cuneiform
Phoenicians
31. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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32. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Old Kingdom
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Set
33. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Patriarchal
Narmer or Menes
Hieroglyphics
Persians
34. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Middle Kingdom
Hebrews
Nebuchanezzar
35. 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.
Phoenicians
Hieroglyphics
Tuthmosis III
Old Testament
36. 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
Ma'at
Phoenicians
Hittites
37. 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.
Ptolemies
Arameic
Jerusalem
Ziggurat
38. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Sumerians
Civilization
Gilgamesh
Indus Valley Civilizations
39. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Water
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian
War
40. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Monotheism
Shifting Cultivation
Hammurabi
41. 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
Hebrews
Sumerians
Ramesses II
42. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Flint
Old Kingdom
Nebuchanezzar
43. 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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44. 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
Sumerians
Priests
Yahweh or Jehovah
45. 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.
Israelites
Amenhotep III
Ancient Egyptians
8 -000 BC
46. Part god and part king - the __________ was the leader of the Ancient of Egyptians. It was his job to raise the sun - the crops - and the coming of the Nile. He held absolute power over the Egyptians in the present life and in the hereafter.
Hieroglyphics
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pharaoh
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
47. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Tuthmosis III
8 -000 BC
Yahweh or Jehovah
Bronze Age
48. 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.
Ra
Shifting Cultivation
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Sargon I
49. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Flint
Gilgamesh
8 -000 BC
50. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
Monotheism
Narmer
Potter's Wheel