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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Set
Ziggurat
Iron
Pastoralism
2. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Cuneiform
Mythopoeic
Mesopotamian
3. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Semites
Priests and Magicians
Flint
4. 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.
Mesopotamian
Obelisks
Egyptian
Priests
5. 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.
Matrilocal
Sargon I
Hammurabi
Potter's Wheel
6. 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.
Pharaoh
Iron
Art
Arameic
7. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Thebes
Art
Egyptian
Matrilocal
8. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Israelites
Nile River
Patriarchal
9. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Hieroglyphics
Fertile Crescent
Phoenicians
Obelisks
10. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Sargon I
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
11. 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
Sumerians
Old Kingdom
New Kingdom
Old Testament
12. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Set
Middle East
Semites
Ancient Egyptians
13. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Nefertiti
Pastoralism
Cheops or Khufu
8 -000 BC
14. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Mesopotamian
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
6
15. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Persians
Pyramids
Middle Kingdom
Divination
16. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Cuneiform
Pre-dynastic Period
Pastoralism
Water
17. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Pre-dynastic Period
Obelisks
City-states
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
18. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Divine Right
Middle East
Water
Ramesses II
19. 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
Ramesses II
Indus Valley Civilizations
Papyrus
Osiris
20. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Persians
Papyrus
Copper
Redistributive
21. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Subservient
City-states
Papyrus
Semites
22. 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.
Animals
Persians
Aten
Military
23. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Babylonian Empire
Ra
Sumerians
24. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Pyramids
Israelites
Narmer
6
25. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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26. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Hebrews
Hammurabi
6
27. 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.
Jericho
Nefertiti
Pharaoh
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
28. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Pharaoh
Judah and Israel
Monotheism
29. 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.
Tutankhamen
Narmer
Obelisks
Old Kingdom
30. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Priests
Judah and Israel
Persians
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
Ziggurat
Papyrus
Hatshepsut
Old Testament
32. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Iron
Narmer
Set
33. 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
Hittites
Divination
Matrilocal
Phoenicians
34. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
Set
Hatshepsut
Tutankhamen
35. 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.
Animals
Patriarchal
Gilgamesh
Obelisks
36. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Ziggurat
Art
Civilization
37. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Aten
Monotheism
Cheops or Khufu
Civilization
38. 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
Ancient Egyptians
New Kingdom
Yahweh or Jehovah
6
39. 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.
Kush
Ptolemies
Military
Flint
40. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Mesopotamians
Women
City-states
41. 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.
Neanderthals
Hyksos
Amenhotep III
Old Testament
42. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Sumerians
8 -000 BC
Ancient Egyptians
Shifting Cultivation
43. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Nile River
Hebrews
Fertile Crescent
44. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Hittites
Kush
Ra
Women
45. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Iron
Neanderthals
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Hyksos
46. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Cuneiform
Military
Nebuchanezzar
Bronze Age
47. 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
Aten
Divination
Thebes
Hebrews
48. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Old Testament
Set
Papyrus
49. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Water
City-states
Patriarchal
50. 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.
Bronze Age
Shifting Cultivation
Sargon I
Pre-dynastic Period