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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Pharaoh
Thebes
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Mesopotamian
2. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Mesopotamian
Set
Women
Iron
3. 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.
Old Testament
Narmer
Cuneiform
Potter's Wheel
4. 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
Human
Redistributive
Nefertiti
Indus Valley Civilizations
5. 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.
Old Testament
River-Valley Civilizations
Hammurabi
Ziggurat
6. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Mythopoeic
Animism
Old Testament
7. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Ptolemies
Osiris
Arameic
8. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Priests and Magicians
Ma'at
Indus Valley Civilizations
9. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Monotheism
Patriarchal
Copper
Fertile Crescent
10. 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
Semites
New Kingdom
Nile River
Israelites
11. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Pyramids
Potter's Wheel
Nile River
12. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Divination
Potter's Wheel
Middle Kingdom
13. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Hatshepsut
Bronze Age
Phoenicians
14. 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.
Mesopotamians
Priests
Mesopotamian
Potter's Wheel
15. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Old Testament
Obelisks
Egyptian
Amenhotep III
16. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Sumerian
Animism
Phoenicians
17. 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.
City-states
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Sumerians
Natufian Complex
18. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Animals
Cheops or Khufu
Hyksos
Aten
19. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
8 -000 BC
Ptolemies
Women
Hebrews
20. 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.
War
Divine Right
Middle Kingdom
Ptolemies
21. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Hammurabi
Art
Water
Natufian Complex
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.
Aten
Amenhotep III
Old Kingdom
Israelites
23. 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
Flint
Pharaoh
Matrilocal
24. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Amenhotep III
Arameic
Art
Babylonian Empire
25. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Amenhotep III
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
City-states
26. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Patriarchal
Pyramids
Papyrus
Ptolemies
27. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Pastoralism
Cuneiform
Pyramids
28. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Ancient Egyptians
Narmer
Sumerians
Cuneiform
29. 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
Aten
Pastoralism
Human
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
30. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Osiris
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Patriarchal
Sumerian
31. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Ramesses II
Ancient Egyptians
Hammurabi
32. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Neanderthals
Mythopoeic
33. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Sargon I
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Monotheism
34. 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.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Egyptian
Sumerians
Hittites
35. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Bronze Age
Water
Civilization
Jerusalem
36. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Narmer
Fertile Crescent
Semites
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
37. 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.
Ten Commandments
Patriarchal
Ziggurat
Hatshepsut
38. 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
Tutankhamen
Priests
Aten
39. 'Soldiers of God'
Israelites
Amenhotep III
Thebes
Ancient Egyptians
40. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
8 -000 BC
Flint
Obelisks
Pyramids
41. 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.
Amenhotep III
Middle Kingdom
Animism
River-Valley Civilizations
42. 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.
Jerusalem
Sumerians
Gilgamesh
Shifting Cultivation
43. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Ptolemies
Hittites
Human
War
44. 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.
Mesopotamian
Jericho
Jerusalem
Ra
45. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
River-Valley Civilizations
Narmer
Flint
Sargon I
46. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Obelisks
Potter's Wheel
Civilization
Babylonian Empire
47. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Shifting Cultivation
Narmer or Menes
Matrilocal
Redistributive
48. Name for the Hebrew god.
Divine Right
Redistributive
Yahweh or Jehovah
Sumerians
49. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Old Testament
Animals
Pre-dynastic Period
50. 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
Ten Commandments
Priests and Magicians
River-Valley Civilizations