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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 'Soldiers of God'
Mythopoeic
Israelites
Fertile Crescent
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
2. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Semites
Tutankhamen
Israelites
3. 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.
Nefertiti
Bronze Age
Gilgamesh
Sumerians
4. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Monotheism
Hittites
Hammurabi
5. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Narmer
Fertile Crescent
Military
Hebrews
6. 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
Divination
River-Valley Civilizations
Old Kingdom
Ten Commandments
7. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
8 -000 BC
City-states
Narmer
8. 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
Semites
Mesopotamian
Old Testament
9. 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.
Civilization
Tutankhamen
Hammurabi
Ziggurat
10. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Tutankhamen
Flint
Potter's Wheel
11. 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.
Cheops or Khufu
Nefertiti
Aten
Divine Right
12. 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.
Ra
Aten
Art
Cheops or Khufu
13. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Redistributive
Middle Kingdom
Tutankhamen
14. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Nebuchanezzar
Mythopoeic
15. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Hammurabi
Hebrews
Obelisks
Tuthmosis III
16. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Matrilocal
Monotheism
Hammurabi
Pyramids
17. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Judah and Israel
Middle East
Sargon I
Jericho
18. 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.
New Kingdom
Old Testament
Ra
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
19. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Arameic
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Divine Right
Tuthmosis III
20. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Osiris
Patriarchal
Judah and Israel
Sumerians
21. 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.
Nile River
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Indus Valley Civilizations
Set
22. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
8 -000 BC
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Semites
Ancient Egyptians
23. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Sumerians
Amenhotep III
Patriarchal
6
24. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Water
Civilization
Kush
Old Testament
25. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Divine Right
Mesopotamian
Water
Matrilocal
26. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
City-states
Ramesses II
Bronze Age
Aten
27. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Phoenicians
Ptolemies
Military
28. Name for the Hebrew god.
Sargon I
Natufian Complex
Potter's Wheel
Yahweh or Jehovah
29. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Cheops or Khufu
Iron
Water
Ptolemies
30. 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
New Kingdom
Babylonian Empire
Obelisks
Narmer or Menes
31. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Ancient Egyptians
Human
Thebes
Pyramids
32. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Art
Semites
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Sumerians
33. 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
Aten
Amenhotep III
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
34. 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
Hammurabi
Mesopotamians
Divination
Hittites
35. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Ramesses II
Monotheism
Persians
Pyramids
36. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Matrilocal
Women
Hammurabi
37. '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
Hatshepsut
Egyptian
Ra
38. 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.
Jericho
City-states
6
Pharaoh
39. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Animism
Cuneiform
Narmer
Semites
40. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Pharaoh
River-Valley Civilizations
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
41. Passive - Stable - Predictable - and Conformist are adjectives that the describe the _____________ people and explain why their civilization was able to survive for an extraordinary 3 -000 years.
Pharaoh
Civilization
Ancient Egyptians
Sumerians
42. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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43. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Neanderthals
Water
Subservient
Nebuchanezzar
44. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Hieroglyphics
Neanderthals
Jerusalem
45. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Narmer
Pyramids
Phoenicians
Animism
46. 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.
Osiris
Pharaoh
Papyrus
Pre-dynastic Period
47. 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
Animism
Thebes
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hatshepsut
48. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Jerusalem
Sumerians
Mesopotamian
49. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Natufian Complex
Yahweh or Jehovah
Shifting Cultivation
50. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Matrilocal
Babylonian Empire
Shifting Cultivation
Patriarchal