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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Priests
Old Kingdom
Pre-dynastic Period
Patriarchal
2. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Priests and Magicians
Nile River
Ptolemies
3. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
Obelisks
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
4. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Patriarchal
Old Testament
Hittites
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
5. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Water
Israelites
Hammurabi
6. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Tuthmosis III
Pre-dynastic Period
Egyptian
Military
7. 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
Israelites
Old Kingdom
Patriarchal
Ramesses II
8. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Osiris
Ancient Egyptians
Persians
9. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Hyksos
Sargon I
Fertile Crescent
8 -000 BC
10. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Kush
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Narmer or Menes
Jerusalem
11. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Persians
Ramesses II
Priests and Magicians
Priests
12. 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.
Neanderthals
Hammurabi
Tutankhamen
New Kingdom
13. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Cuneiform
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Israelites
14. 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.
Arameic
Mythopoeic
Animals
River-Valley Civilizations
15. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Kush
Obelisks
Pyramids
Israelites
16. 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.
Divine Right
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Bronze Age
Nile River
17. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Old Kingdom
Divination
Thebes
Sargon I
18. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Hieroglyphics
Women
Subservient
Semites
19. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Jerusalem
Subservient
Nebuchanezzar
Sumerian
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.
Mesopotamians
8 -000 BC
Subservient
Ra
21. 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
Ten Commandments
Mesopotamian
Hittites
Ziggurat
22. 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
Osiris
Redistributive
Amenhotep III
Cuneiform
23. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Papyrus
Iron
8 -000 BC
Cuneiform
24. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Ziggurat
Ra
Sumerians
Sargon I
25. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Civilization
Jerusalem
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Arameic
26. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Papyrus
Jerusalem
Egyptian
Animals
27. 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.
Pyramids
Mythopoeic
Phoenicians
Osiris
28. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Iron
Priests
Matrilocal
Pre-dynastic Period
29. 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.
Mythopoeic
Pyramids
River-Valley Civilizations
Ptolemies
30. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Pharaoh
Middle Kingdom
Mesopotamians
Old Testament
31. 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
Subservient
New Kingdom
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
32. 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
Monotheism
8 -000 BC
Nefertiti
Old Kingdom
33. 'Soldiers of God'
Jerusalem
Israelites
Gilgamesh
Indus Valley Civilizations
34. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Old Testament
Ptolemies
City-states
Copper
35. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Animals
Matrilocal
Copper
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
36. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Women
Patriarchal
Priests and Magicians
Flint
37. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Pharaoh
Women
Kush
Ptolemies
38. 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
Mythopoeic
Pre-dynastic Period
Civilization
39. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Obelisks
Ten Commandments
Phoenicians
Potter's Wheel
40. 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.
Mesopotamians
Ma'at
Tuthmosis III
Arameic
41. 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.
Sumerians
Babylonian Empire
Aten
Narmer
42. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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43. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Copper
Hatshepsut
Middle East
44. 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.
Tutankhamen
City-states
Amenhotep III
Ziggurat
45. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Art
Hittites
Middle Kingdom
46. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
City-states
Ra
Natufian Complex
Monotheism
47. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Potter's Wheel
Egyptian
Ma'at
Patriarchal
48. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Women
Natufian Complex
Semites
Ten Commandments
49. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Animals
Human
Set
Ramesses II
50. 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.
Monotheism
Priests
Bronze Age
Civilization