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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Potter's Wheel
Babylonian Empire
Nile River
War
2. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Bronze Age
Neanderthals
Redistributive
8 -000 BC
3. 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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Papyrus
Israelites
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
4. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Sargon I
Divine Right
Animals
5. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Narmer
Art
Persians
Ra
6. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
8 -000 BC
Jerusalem
Human
Semites
7. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Hammurabi
Flint
Thebes
Nile River
8. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divination
Civilization
Divine Right
Osiris
9. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Israelites
Fertile Crescent
Old Kingdom
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10. 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.
Israelites
Shifting Cultivation
Iron
Obelisks
11. 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
Mythopoeic
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Amenhotep III
Divination
12. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Sumerians
Tuthmosis III
Middle East
Jericho
13. 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.
Patriarchal
Narmer or Menes
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Fertile Crescent
14. 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.
Thebes
Hatshepsut
Potter's Wheel
Sumerians
15. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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16. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Egyptian
Flint
Jerusalem
17. 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
Amenhotep III
Neanderthals
Pyramids
18. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Hyksos
Israelites
Civilization
19. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Papyrus
Hieroglyphics
Babylonian Empire
Natufian Complex
20. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Old Testament
Tutankhamen
Matrilocal
21. 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.
Amenhotep III
Nile River
Gilgamesh
Redistributive
22. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Sargon I
Narmer
Obelisks
Hebrews
23. 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.
Human
Art
Old Testament
Old Kingdom
24. 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.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hatshepsut
Aten
Ma'at
25. 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
Flint
Nebuchanezzar
Papyrus
26. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Ra
Sargon I
Semites
27. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Natufian Complex
Priests and Magicians
Aten
28. 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.
Flint
Obelisks
Ancient Egyptians
Kush
29. 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.
Pyramids
Animals
Indus Valley Civilizations
City-states
30. '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
Art
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Ptolemies
31. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Hittites
Bronze Age
Narmer
Mesopotamian
32. 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
Pre-dynastic Period
War
Hatshepsut
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33. 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.
Priests
Mesopotamians
Narmer or Menes
Israelites
34. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Civilization
Priests and Magicians
Narmer
35. 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.
Semites
Art
Ra
Pre-dynastic Period
36. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Hammurabi
Thebes
Babylonian Empire
37. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Egyptian
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Animism
Judah and Israel
38. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Tutankhamen
Arameic
Ten Commandments
Sumerians
39. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Narmer or Menes
Jericho
Human
Water
40. 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.
Jericho
Ancient Egyptians
Gilgamesh
Nefertiti
41. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Patriarchal
Set
Cuneiform
Papyrus
42. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Thebes
Aten
Pastoralism
Ziggurat
43. 'Soldiers of God'
Egyptian
Monotheism
Animals
Israelites
44. 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
Military
Shifting Cultivation
Subservient
45. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Sumerians
Bronze Age
Persians
Hatshepsut
46. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Mesopotamian
Sargon I
Civilization
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47. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Bronze Age
War
Phoenicians
48. 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.
Nile River
Divination
Phoenicians
Pharaoh
49. 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.
Mesopotamians
Ziggurat
Ptolemies
Redistributive
50. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Flint
Old Kingdom
Copper
Sumerians