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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Between 3000 and 1500 BC - the civilization flourished over the region that extended hundreds of miles from the Himalaya Mountains to the coast of the Arabian Sea. At the heart of the civilization were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Both cities had popula
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Sumerian
Indus Valley Civilizations
Nefertiti
2. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Sumerian
Kush
Hieroglyphics
Bronze Age
3. 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.
Semites
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
War
River-Valley Civilizations
4. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Old Kingdom
Patriarchal
Ramesses II
Kush
5. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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6. 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
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Ptolemies
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Military
7. 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.
Hittites
Nile River
Aten
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
8. 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.
Hyksos
Amenhotep III
Sumerians
Redistributive
9. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Tutankhamen
Copper
Set
10. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Tutankhamen
Pyramids
Amenhotep III
Egyptian
11. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Cheops or Khufu
Egyptian
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
12. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Tuthmosis III
Priests and Magicians
Middle East
Animals
13. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Divination
Hyksos
Cheops or Khufu
14. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Set
Sumerians
Copper
Neanderthals
15. 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.
Israelites
War
Hyksos
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
16. 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.
Mythopoeic
Pharaoh
Old Testament
Babylonian Empire
17. 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.
Ptolemies
Papyrus
Middle East
Nefertiti
18. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Thebes
Priests
Hatshepsut
Art
19. 'Soldiers of God'
Ra
Israelites
Sumerian
Amenhotep III
20. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Sumerians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
River-Valley Civilizations
Civilization
21. 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.
Persians
Middle East
Divination
Israelites
22. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Redistributive
Women
Ma'at
Fertile Crescent
23. 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.
Israelites
Ten Commandments
Ra
Thebes
24. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Hittites
Sumerians
Obelisks
Flint
25. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Amenhotep III
Copper
Fertile Crescent
26. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Flint
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ten Commandments
Sumerian
27. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Human
Water
Hammurabi
Phoenicians
28. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Hyksos
Obelisks
Hittites
Cheops or Khufu
29. 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
Neanderthals
River-Valley Civilizations
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Hebrews
30. 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.
Hieroglyphics
Shifting Cultivation
Jericho
Hittites
31. 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.
Semites
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Aten
Obelisks
32. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Cuneiform
Nebuchanezzar
Phoenicians
Middle East
33. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Cheops or Khufu
Pyramids
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
8 -000 BC
34. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Patriarchal
Narmer
Mythopoeic
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.
Mythopoeic
Cheops or Khufu
Narmer or Menes
Pre-dynastic Period
36. 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
Semites
Aten
Hittites
37. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Mythopoeic
Pastoralism
Obelisks
Matrilocal
38. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Ancient Egyptians
Iron
Animals
Potter's Wheel
39. 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.
Iron
Pharaoh
Thebes
Natufian Complex
40. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Pyramids
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Monotheism
Egyptian
41. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Cuneiform
Divine Right
War
Pyramids
42. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Narmer or Menes
Civilization
Hammurabi
43. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Priests
River-Valley Civilizations
Narmer
44. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Hyksos
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Obelisks
Copper
45. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Natufian Complex
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Tutankhamen
46. 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.
War
Sargon I
Gilgamesh
Jericho
47. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
New Kingdom
Ziggurat
Babylonian Empire
Tutankhamen
48. 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.
Persians
Pyramids
Arameic
New Kingdom
49. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Thebes
Flint
Priests and Magicians
50. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Art
Potter's Wheel
Osiris