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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Patriarchal
Pastoralism
Hieroglyphics
Jerusalem
2. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
City-states
War
Sargon I
3. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Pharaoh
Monotheism
Water
4. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Animism
Middle East
Ma'at
Middle Kingdom
5. 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
Hieroglyphics
Ptolemies
Yahweh or Jehovah
Old Kingdom
6. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Ra
Women
Copper
7. 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.
Papyrus
City-states
Nefertiti
Ancient Egyptians
8. 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
Fertile Crescent
Flint
Hebrews
Narmer or Menes
9. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Neanderthals
Potter's Wheel
Papyrus
City-states
10. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Shifting Cultivation
Iron
Sumerians
Indus Valley Civilizations
11. The first civilizations - they created a basic set of tools - intellectual concepts such as writing and mathematics - and political forms that would persist and spread to other parts of Europe - Asia - and Africa. Most were in decline by 1000 BC.
Nile River
River-Valley Civilizations
Hammurabi
Mythopoeic
12. 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
Ziggurat
Priests and Magicians
Babylonian Empire
Hatshepsut
13. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Pastoralism
Sumerians
Hatshepsut
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
14. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Gilgamesh
Mesopotamian
Arameic
15. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Mythopoeic
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Arameic
Patriarchal
16. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Persians
Animals
Redistributive
Iron
17. 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
Cuneiform
Flint
Aten
18. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Shifting Cultivation
Old Testament
Matrilocal
Sumerians
19. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Mesopotamians
Priests
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Animals
20. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Jerusalem
Hieroglyphics
Iron
Redistributive
21. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Sumerian
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
River-Valley Civilizations
Redistributive
22. 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
Matrilocal
8 -000 BC
Human
23. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Animism
City-states
Monotheism
24. 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
Amenhotep III
Egyptian
Phoenicians
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
25. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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26. 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.
Ma'at
Civilization
Gilgamesh
Animism
27. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Priests and Magicians
Babylonian Empire
Ra
Ancient Egyptians
28. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hatshepsut
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
29. 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
Pharaoh
New Kingdom
Cuneiform
Copper
30. 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.
Sumerians
Papyrus
Tutankhamen
War
31. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Gilgamesh
Hieroglyphics
Mythopoeic
Civilization
32. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Neanderthals
Art
Indus Valley Civilizations
Egyptian
33. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Egyptian
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Cheops or Khufu
Redistributive
34. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Obelisks
War
Osiris
35. 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.
Matrilocal
Shifting Cultivation
Pre-dynastic Period
Indus Valley Civilizations
36. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Egyptian
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Arameic
37. 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.
8 -000 BC
City-states
Ten Commandments
Persians
38. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Hatshepsut
Kush
Thebes
Ten Commandments
39. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Phoenicians
Jerusalem
Obelisks
Military
40. 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.
Thebes
Mythopoeic
Ra
Ziggurat
41. 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
Neanderthals
Amenhotep III
River-Valley Civilizations
42. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
8 -000 BC
Narmer or Menes
Persians
Animism
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. 'Soldiers of God'
Women
Sargon I
Israelites
Mythopoeic
45. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Arameic
Fertile Crescent
Phoenicians
46. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Hyksos
Cuneiform
Middle Kingdom
Mesopotamian
47. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Pyramids
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Phoenicians
Bronze Age
48. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Sumerians
Priests and Magicians
Egyptian
Narmer
49. 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
Neanderthals
Indus Valley Civilizations
Military
Pre-dynastic Period
50. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Narmer or Menes
Military
Egyptian
Old Kingdom