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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Jericho
8 -000 BC
Ten Commandments
2. Name for the Hebrew god.
Mesopotamian
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Yahweh or Jehovah
Monotheism
3. 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.
Redistributive
Sumerians
Jerusalem
City-states
4. 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
Papyrus
Hittites
Neanderthals
Pastoralism
5. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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6. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Phoenicians
Human
Arameic
7. 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.
Ra
Pre-dynastic Period
Patriarchal
Hebrews
8. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Military
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
9. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Tutankhamen
New Kingdom
Jericho
10. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Cheops or Khufu
Amenhotep III
Mythopoeic
11. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Cuneiform
Potter's Wheel
Mesopotamian
Civilization
12. 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.
Pharaoh
Patriarchal
Ziggurat
River-Valley Civilizations
13. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Gilgamesh
Phoenicians
Flint
14. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Ten Commandments
Subservient
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Hatshepsut
15. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Water
City-states
Hyksos
16. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Judah and Israel
New Kingdom
6
17. 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
City-states
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Animals
18. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Women
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Cheops or Khufu
Hammurabi
19. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Divine Right
Subservient
Jericho
Old Kingdom
20. 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
Ma'at
Iron
6
21. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
City-states
Narmer or Menes
Sumerians
Copper
22. 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
Natufian Complex
Phoenicians
Osiris
Jerusalem
23. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Papyrus
Judah and Israel
Pre-dynastic Period
24. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Set
Ra
Animals
Hammurabi
25. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Shifting Cultivation
Aten
Natufian Complex
Narmer or Menes
26. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Obelisks
6
Narmer
Nefertiti
27. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Jericho
Subservient
Pre-dynastic Period
Kush
28. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Pre-dynastic Period
Ma'at
Papyrus
Redistributive
29. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Subservient
Nebuchanezzar
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Jericho
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.
Ptolemies
Ziggurat
Human
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
31. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Sumerians
War
Patriarchal
Priests and Magicians
32. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Civilization
Matrilocal
Redistributive
Set
33. 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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Hebrews
Obelisks
34. 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
Thebes
Set
Ziggurat
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
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.
Human
Aten
Sargon I
Amenhotep III
36. 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.
Pastoralism
Monotheism
Mesopotamian
Old Testament
37. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Civilization
Priests
Ra
38. 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
Ra
Neanderthals
39. 'Soldiers of God'
Israelites
Divination
Indus Valley Civilizations
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
40. 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.
Bronze Age
Ancient Egyptians
Hebrews
Sargon I
41. 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.
Nile River
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Gilgamesh
Priests
42. 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
Pastoralism
Hebrews
Amenhotep III
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
43. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Neanderthals
Obelisks
Osiris
Papyrus
44. 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.
Cheops or Khufu
Mesopotamian
War
Middle Kingdom
45. 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
Set
Ptolemies
Pyramids
46. 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.
Iron
Narmer or Menes
City-states
Pharaoh
47. 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.
Judah and Israel
Neanderthals
Ptolemies
Hammurabi
48. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Nile River
Shifting Cultivation
City-states
Pastoralism
49. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Nefertiti
Narmer
Animism
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
50. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Sumerians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Narmer
Pharaoh
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