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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Egyptian
Pyramids
Tuthmosis III
2. 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
Women
Egyptian
Hebrews
Hieroglyphics
3. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tuthmosis III
Jerusalem
4. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Nile River
Sumerians
Human
Ziggurat
5. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Ancient Egyptians
Women
Divine Right
6. 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
Hittites
Amenhotep III
Hyksos
Mesopotamian
7. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Patriarchal
Animals
Redistributive
Water
8. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Ramesses II
Iron
Fertile Crescent
Pastoralism
9. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Tuthmosis III
Animism
Middle East
Iron
10. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Natufian Complex
Persians
River-Valley Civilizations
Shifting Cultivation
11. 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
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Patriarchal
12. 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
Pyramids
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Shifting Cultivation
Civilization
13. 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.
Ziggurat
Ten Commandments
Hieroglyphics
Patriarchal
14. 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
Papyrus
Thebes
Ramesses II
Set
15. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Priests and Magicians
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Tuthmosis III
16. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
City-states
Old Kingdom
Jericho
Monotheism
17. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Hittites
Subservient
Sumerian
Bronze Age
18. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Papyrus
Nebuchanezzar
Indus Valley Civilizations
19. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Hieroglyphics
Copper
Subservient
Potter's Wheel
20. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Old Kingdom
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Priests and Magicians
Patriarchal
21. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
City-states
Middle Kingdom
Mesopotamians
Thebes
22. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Egyptian
Military
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
23. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
War
Thebes
Monotheism
Indus Valley Civilizations
24. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Priests
Mythopoeic
Shifting Cultivation
Subservient
25. 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.
Sargon I
Pastoralism
Animism
Patriarchal
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.
Priests and Magicians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Human
Hammurabi
27. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Old Kingdom
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Judah and Israel
Semites
28. 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.
Arameic
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
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Neanderthals
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.
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Ptolemies
Middle Kingdom
Hammurabi
30. 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.
Persians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Nefertiti
Sargon I
31. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Sargon I
Osiris
Narmer or Menes
Jericho
32. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Hieroglyphics
Obelisks
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
33. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Civilization
Egyptian
Water
Thebes
34. 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.
Thebes
Tutankhamen
Babylonian Empire
Nile River
35. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Women
Fertile Crescent
Babylonian Empire
Water
36. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
War
Hieroglyphics
Persians
Cuneiform
37. 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.
Divine Right
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Middle Kingdom
Animism
38. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Jerusalem
Shifting Cultivation
Cheops or Khufu
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
39. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Semites
6
Art
Mesopotamian
40. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Flint
Judah and Israel
Narmer
Sumerians
41. 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
42. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Ten Commandments
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Ma'at
Pyramids
43. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
44. 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
Osiris
Persians
Set
Yahweh or Jehovah
45. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Middle Kingdom
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Neanderthals
Amenhotep III
46. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Indus Valley Civilizations
Monotheism
47. 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.
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Ra
Iron
Sumerian
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.
Ramesses II
Hyksos
Subservient
Old Testament
49. 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.
Women
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hieroglyphics
Fertile Crescent
50. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Mesopotamian
Phoenicians
Animism
Pre-dynastic Period