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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Papyrus
Pharaoh
Natufian Complex
Civilization
2. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Babylonian Empire
Pastoralism
Cuneiform
Aten
3. 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.
Women
Pyramids
River-Valley Civilizations
Ptolemies
4. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Nebuchanezzar
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pharaoh
5. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Set
Cheops or Khufu
Natufian Complex
Redistributive
6. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Ptolemies
Potter's Wheel
Water
7. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Egyptian
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Semites
8. 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.
Cheops or Khufu
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Old Testament
City-states
9. 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.
8 -000 BC
Ten Commandments
Hammurabi
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
10. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Egyptian
8 -000 BC
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.
Flint
Bronze Age
Nefertiti
6
12. 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
Matrilocal
Ma'at
Ramesses II
War
13. 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
New Kingdom
Ziggurat
Tutankhamen
Hebrews
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.
Priests
Patriarchal
Civilization
Sumerians
15. 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.
War
Hammurabi
Hittites
Tutankhamen
16. 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
Tutankhamen
Pharaoh
Pastoralism
17. 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.
Gilgamesh
Persians
Ramesses II
Divination
18. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Gilgamesh
Persians
Ziggurat
19. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Matrilocal
Flint
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Mythopoeic
20. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Water
Egyptian
Redistributive
Priests
21. 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
Middle Kingdom
War
Hittites
Ra
22. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Patriarchal
Narmer
Gilgamesh
Women
23. 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
Copper
Narmer
Sumerians
Old Kingdom
24. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Thebes
Sumerians
Civilization
Mesopotamians
25. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Potter's Wheel
Iron
Mesopotamian
Judah and Israel
26. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Divine Right
6
Patriarchal
27. 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.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Iron
Pre-dynastic Period
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
Ten Commandments
8 -000 BC
Matrilocal
Sumerian
29. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Babylonian Empire
Kush
Pre-dynastic Period
30. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Iron
Aten
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Nebuchanezzar
31. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Hammurabi
Judah and Israel
Tuthmosis III
32. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Jericho
Pastoralism
Military
Middle East
33. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Middle East
Redistributive
Set
Semites
34. 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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35. 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
Obelisks
Jerusalem
Indus Valley Civilizations
36. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Ma'at
Iron
War
Judah and Israel
37. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Pre-dynastic Period
War
Fertile Crescent
38. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Pyramids
Cheops or Khufu
Egyptian
Women
39. 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.
Israelites
Shifting Cultivation
Narmer
8 -000 BC
40. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Art
Fertile Crescent
Pyramids
41. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Thebes
Divine Right
Gilgamesh
Kush
42. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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43. 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
Papyrus
Women
Redistributive
44. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Old Kingdom
Tuthmosis III
Sumerian
45. Name for the Hebrew god.
River-Valley Civilizations
Yahweh or Jehovah
Pharaoh
Judah and Israel
46. 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
Pharaoh
Indus Valley Civilizations
Persians
Ptolemies
47. 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.
Sumerians
Old Testament
Judah and Israel
Middle Kingdom
48. 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
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hebrews
Middle East
49. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Narmer
Mythopoeic
Military
Jerusalem
50. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Neanderthals
Cuneiform
River-Valley Civilizations
Water
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