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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Patriarchal
Pyramids
Papyrus
2. 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
Human
Hittites
Subservient
Babylonian Empire
3. 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
Sumerian
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Tutankhamen
Shifting Cultivation
4. 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
Amenhotep III
Middle Kingdom
Subservient
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
5. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Ramesses II
Subservient
Hieroglyphics
Flint
6. 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.
Mythopoeic
Aten
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pharaoh
7. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Priests and Magicians
New Kingdom
Phoenicians
8. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Hammurabi
Pyramids
City-states
Amenhotep III
9. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Israelites
Iron
City-states
War
10. 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
Babylonian Empire
Women
Gilgamesh
11. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Hieroglyphics
Cheops or Khufu
Priests and Magicians
Human
12. Name for the Hebrew god.
Mesopotamian
Yahweh or Jehovah
New Kingdom
Sargon I
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.
Priests and Magicians
Osiris
Middle Kingdom
Pyramids
14. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Amenhotep III
Pastoralism
Redistributive
Israelites
15. 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
Obelisks
Narmer or Menes
Sumerians
16. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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17. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Fertile Crescent
Nile River
Patriarchal
18. 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.
Sumerian
Bronze Age
Tutankhamen
Aten
19. 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
Ten Commandments
Hatshepsut
Copper
Cheops or Khufu
20. 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.
Phoenicians
Obelisks
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Ra
21. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Hatshepsut
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Hieroglyphics
Women
22. 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.
Human
Cheops or Khufu
Narmer
Ra
23. 'Soldiers of God'
Tutankhamen
Hatshepsut
8 -000 BC
Israelites
24. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Jericho
Papyrus
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mythopoeic
25. 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.
Divination
Hatshepsut
Cheops or Khufu
Narmer or Menes
26. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
War
Neanderthals
Pharaoh
Animals
27. 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
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28. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Subservient
Water
Military
Divine Right
29. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Monotheism
Pharaoh
War
30. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Pharaoh
New Kingdom
Kush
Hittites
31. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Sumerians
Egyptian
Mesopotamian
Redistributive
32. 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.
Subservient
Sargon I
Neanderthals
Middle Kingdom
33. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Mesopotamians
Narmer
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Gilgamesh
34. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Animals
Narmer
Patriarchal
Women
35. Stepson of Hatshepsut - he lead the military expeditions during her reign. When he became Pharaoh - he enlisted thousands of men to help him capture more land than any other Pharaoh before him. At the time - he ruled the largest empire ever ruled by
Phoenicians
Hatshepsut
Ra
Tuthmosis III
36. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Sumerians
Pastoralism
Set
Divine Right
37. 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
Women
Fertile Crescent
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
38. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Divination
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Obelisks
Priests
39. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Mesopotamian
Jerusalem
Copper
Natufian Complex
40. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Iron
Sumerians
Natufian Complex
41. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
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Military
Priests and Magicians
42. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Tutankhamen
Nebuchanezzar
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Egyptian
43. 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
Phoenicians
Thebes
Subservient
Osiris
44. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Jerusalem
Gilgamesh
Animism
45. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Potter's Wheel
Bronze Age
Sumerians
46. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Fertile Crescent
Natufian Complex
Bronze Age
Hyksos
47. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Osiris
Human
Hieroglyphics
Cheops or Khufu
48. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Priests
Set
Ziggurat
Ra
49. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Patriarchal
Cuneiform
Subservient
Gilgamesh
50. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Ten Commandments
Thebes
Neanderthals
Judah and Israel