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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Hittites
Flint
Mesopotamian
Cuneiform
2. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Kush
Cheops or Khufu
Ptolemies
Pastoralism
3. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Papyrus
Iron
River-Valley Civilizations
Pharaoh
4. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Gilgamesh
Jericho
Old Testament
5. 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.
Hittites
Animism
Judah and Israel
City-states
6. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Hatshepsut
Monotheism
Mesopotamians
Gilgamesh
7. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Nile River
Military
Divination
8. 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.
Egyptian
Sargon I
Hammurabi
Pre-dynastic Period
9. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Shifting Cultivation
Arameic
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Middle East
10. 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.
Art
Nefertiti
Ra
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
11. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Matrilocal
Ten Commandments
Hyksos
12. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Animals
Aten
Pre-dynastic Period
13. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Aten
Bronze Age
Civilization
Tutankhamen
14. 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.
Amenhotep III
Middle Kingdom
Egyptian
Tutankhamen
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.
Nile River
River-Valley Civilizations
Water
Kush
16. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Old Testament
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Redistributive
Civilization
17. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Middle East
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Art
Sumerian
18. 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.
Bronze Age
Ra
6
Old Kingdom
19. 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
Judah and Israel
Water
Semites
Amenhotep III
20. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Hyksos
Pre-dynastic Period
Semites
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
21. 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.
Gilgamesh
Hyksos
Indus Valley Civilizations
Kush
22. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Priests
Kush
Military
Cuneiform
23. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Monotheism
Mesopotamians
Ten Commandments
Mesopotamian
24. 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.
Obelisks
Subservient
Priests
Jericho
25. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Aten
Thebes
Osiris
26. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Thebes
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Neanderthals
Ten Commandments
27. 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
Potter's Wheel
Ptolemies
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Phoenicians
28. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Sumerian
Ptolemies
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
29. 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.
Judah and Israel
Ramesses II
Phoenicians
Middle Kingdom
30. 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.
Ma'at
Ra
Ancient Egyptians
Thebes
31. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
Ancient Egyptians
Arameic
Sargon I
32. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Middle East
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hyksos
33. 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
Civilization
Military
Sumerian
34. 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.
Pastoralism
Thebes
Nile River
Pre-dynastic Period
35. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Pyramids
Neanderthals
Middle Kingdom
36. 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.
Pharaoh
Jerusalem
Arameic
Egyptian
37. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Arameic
Ptolemies
Narmer
Israelites
38. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Priests and Magicians
Old Kingdom
Water
Sargon I
39. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Yahweh or Jehovah
8 -000 BC
Papyrus
Mesopotamians
40. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Ten Commandments
Mythopoeic
Divine Right
Ptolemies
41. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Matrilocal
Flint
Iron
Babylonian Empire
42. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Neanderthals
Cheops or Khufu
Hyksos
Nebuchanezzar
43. 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
Hittites
Amenhotep III
Hatshepsut
Thebes
44. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Old Kingdom
Judah and Israel
Sumerians
45. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
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Osiris
Patriarchal
Ramesses II
46. 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
Papyrus
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
New Kingdom
Tuthmosis III
47. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Hyksos
Tuthmosis III
Cheops or Khufu
Bronze Age
48. 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.
Hammurabi
Patriarchal
Bronze Age
Semites
49. 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
Ziggurat
Ramesses II
Persians
Shifting Cultivation
50. 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
Hebrews
Ptolemies
Old Kingdom
City-states