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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Women
Military
Nile River
Jericho
2. 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.
Hieroglyphics
Old Testament
Potter's Wheel
Hittites
3. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Babylonian Empire
Divine Right
Water
4. 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.
Egyptian
Set
Hammurabi
Ma'at
5. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Gilgamesh
Pastoralism
Thebes
Ten Commandments
6. 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
Kush
Narmer or Menes
Tutankhamen
7. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Ramesses II
Neanderthals
Narmer or Menes
Nile River
8. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Monotheism
Mythopoeic
Fertile Crescent
Sumerians
9. 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
Civilization
Amenhotep III
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Natufian Complex
10. 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.
Water
Phoenicians
Ra
Human
11. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Narmer
Art
Persians
Mythopoeic
12. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Matrilocal
Priests and Magicians
Fertile Crescent
Jerusalem
13. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Animism
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
War
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
14. 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
Old Kingdom
River-Valley Civilizations
Neanderthals
Pastoralism
15. 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.
Egyptian
City-states
Patriarchal
Subservient
16. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Hatshepsut
Bronze Age
Potter's Wheel
17. 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
Mythopoeic
Hebrews
Arameic
Fertile Crescent
18. 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.
Ten Commandments
Nefertiti
Set
Gilgamesh
19. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Osiris
Cheops or Khufu
Civilization
Sumerian
20. 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
Phoenicians
Potter's Wheel
Civilization
21. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Tutankhamen
City-states
Human
Flint
22. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Iron
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Civilization
Pharaoh
23. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Aten
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Military
Narmer
24. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Divination
River-Valley Civilizations
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ma'at
25. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Ptolemies
Jerusalem
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hammurabi
26. 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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Neanderthals
Pharaoh
Osiris
27. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Sumerians
Copper
Hatshepsut
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
28. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Narmer
New Kingdom
Jerusalem
29. 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
Sumerians
Hittites
Amenhotep III
Fertile Crescent
30. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Tuthmosis III
Mesopotamians
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian
31. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Arameic
Aten
Sumerian
Babylonian Empire
32. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Yahweh or Jehovah
Nefertiti
Cuneiform
33. 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
Pharaoh
Israelites
Hatshepsut
Aten
34. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Hieroglyphics
Women
Fertile Crescent
Animals
35. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Set
Mythopoeic
Neanderthals
Mesopotamians
36. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Mesopotamians
Aten
Kush
War
37. 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.
Hyksos
Animism
Shifting Cultivation
Jerusalem
38. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Animals
Sumerians
Copper
39. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Patriarchal
Middle East
War
Matrilocal
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.
City-states
Arameic
Phoenicians
Babylonian Empire
41. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Set
Shifting Cultivation
42. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Tutankhamen
Redistributive
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
43. 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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Patriarchal
Ptolemies
Pyramids
44. 'Soldiers of God'
Indus Valley Civilizations
Israelites
Pastoralism
Middle East
45. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Middle Kingdom
Matrilocal
Yahweh or Jehovah
Persians
46. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Monotheism
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Neanderthals
47. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Patriarchal
Mesopotamian
Amenhotep III
48. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Aten
Papyrus
Set
Priests and Magicians
49. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Amenhotep III
Ptolemies
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Judah and Israel
50. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Pre-dynastic Period
Sumerians
Ra