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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Cuneiform
Hittites
Hieroglyphics
2. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Hyksos
Animals
Semites
Nile River
3. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Pre-dynastic Period
Natufian Complex
Kush
Divine Right
4. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Ptolemies
City-states
Ramesses II
5. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Mesopotamian
Animals
Redistributive
Hieroglyphics
6. 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.
Pyramids
Hyksos
Gilgamesh
Jerusalem
7. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Art
Hatshepsut
Mesopotamian
Semites
8. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Indus Valley Civilizations
Narmer or Menes
Israelites
Sumerian
9. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Flint
Ma'at
Ancient Egyptians
10. 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.
Matrilocal
Middle Kingdom
Ancient Egyptians
Tutankhamen
11. 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
12. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Ziggurat
Natufian Complex
Persians
Women
13. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Ramesses II
Indus Valley Civilizations
Neanderthals
Monotheism
14. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
15. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Priests and Magicians
Pastoralism
Kush
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.
Aten
Nile River
Fertile Crescent
Sargon I
17. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Hieroglyphics
Priests
Subservient
Women
18. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
River-Valley Civilizations
Phoenicians
Middle East
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
19. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Israelites
Set
Hittites
Jerusalem
20. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Bronze Age
Judah and Israel
Ramesses II
Cheops or Khufu
21. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Nefertiti
Pre-dynastic Period
Monotheism
22. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Ziggurat
Redistributive
Pyramids
Bronze Age
23. 'Soldiers of God'
Israelites
Cuneiform
Hittites
Sumerian
24. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Narmer or Menes
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Indus Valley Civilizations
River-Valley Civilizations
25. 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.
Aten
8 -000 BC
Egyptian
Jerusalem
26. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Ancient Egyptians
Civilization
Ramesses II
Women
27. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Papyrus
Kush
Monotheism
Pre-dynastic Period
28. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Animals
Art
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Arameic
29. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Middle Kingdom
Animism
Narmer or Menes
Jericho
30. 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
Military
Kush
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Obelisks
31. 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
Redistributive
Ziggurat
Hammurabi
Hatshepsut
32. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Tutankhamen
Ten Commandments
Hebrews
Hieroglyphics
33. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Bronze Age
6
Mesopotamian
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
34. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Shifting Cultivation
Pharaoh
Hatshepsut
35. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Set
Iron
Tutankhamen
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
36. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Pharaoh
Mesopotamian
Pyramids
37. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Jerusalem
8 -000 BC
6
Pharaoh
38. 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.
Egyptian
Sumerians
Arameic
Hebrews
39. 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.
Egyptian
Phoenicians
Iron
Hyksos
40. 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.
Copper
Divine Right
Kush
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
41. 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.
Jericho
Middle Kingdom
Ziggurat
Sumerians
42. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Monotheism
Pastoralism
Osiris
Military
43. 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.
Nefertiti
Narmer or Menes
Papyrus
Military
44. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Narmer or Menes
Nile River
Fertile Crescent
Persians
45. The practice of seeking to foretell future events by interpreting divine signs - which could appear in various forms - such as in entrails of animals - in patterns in smoke - or in dreams.
Ma'at
River-Valley Civilizations
Divination
Judah and Israel
46. 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
Ramesses II
Papyrus
Amenhotep III
Judah and Israel
47. 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
Monotheism
8 -000 BC
Nebuchanezzar
48. 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.
Ptolemies
Sumerians
Tutankhamen
Mythopoeic
49. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Egyptian
Art
Tuthmosis III
50. 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
Water
Osiris
Narmer
Matrilocal