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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Obelisks
Osiris
Patriarchal
Jerusalem
2. 'Soldiers of God'
Semites
Middle East
Israelites
Mythopoeic
3. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Natufian Complex
Sumerians
Arameic
4. 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
Neanderthals
Set
Nebuchanezzar
Old Kingdom
5. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Egyptian
Neanderthals
New Kingdom
6. 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.
Semites
Mesopotamian
Tutankhamen
Patriarchal
7. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Ancient Egyptians
Judah and Israel
Arameic
Civilization
8. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Set
Jerusalem
Shifting Cultivation
Women
9. 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
Hatshepsut
Ziggurat
Patriarchal
Old Testament
10. 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
Gilgamesh
Ramesses II
Jericho
Ten Commandments
11. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Tuthmosis III
Hatshepsut
Fertile Crescent
New Kingdom
12. 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.
Pharaoh
Old Testament
Hittites
Middle East
13. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Gilgamesh
Old Testament
Jericho
City-states
14. 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
Osiris
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Narmer
Papyrus
15. 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.
Mesopotamian
Divination
Gilgamesh
Obelisks
16. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Osiris
Monotheism
Obelisks
Bronze Age
17. 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.
Divine Right
Nefertiti
Water
Narmer
18. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Persians
Sumerian
8 -000 BC
Tutankhamen
19. 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
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Egyptian
War
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
20. 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.
Women
Nefertiti
Ancient Egyptians
River-Valley Civilizations
21. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Narmer
Ancient Egyptians
Animals
Military
22. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Ma'at
Iron
Patriarchal
Old Kingdom
23. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Papyrus
River-Valley Civilizations
Hieroglyphics
24. 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.
Matrilocal
Hittites
Ra
Aten
25. 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.
Hyksos
Sumerian
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Nile River
26. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Natufian Complex
Military
Civilization
Papyrus
27. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Matrilocal
Ramesses II
Babylonian Empire
Water
28. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Art
Shifting Cultivation
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Egyptian
29. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Old Testament
Mesopotamian
Priests and Magicians
Jerusalem
30. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Flint
Arameic
Subservient
Animals
31. 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.
Natufian Complex
City-states
Judah and Israel
Animals
32. 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
Priests
Tutankhamen
Papyrus
33. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Sumerians
Flint
Nefertiti
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
34. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Matrilocal
Ancient Egyptians
Amenhotep III
35. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Nile River
Ra
River-Valley Civilizations
Cuneiform
36. Name for the Hebrew god.
Pharaoh
Ancient Egyptians
Thebes
Yahweh or Jehovah
37. 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.
Pyramids
Old Testament
8 -000 BC
Matrilocal
38. 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.
Military
Kush
Hammurabi
Aten
39. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Monotheism
Phoenicians
Priests and Magicians
40. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Nefertiti
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Pastoralism
Military
41. 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.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Pre-dynastic Period
Narmer or Menes
Patriarchal
42. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Gilgamesh
Mesopotamians
Neanderthals
Hittites
43. 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
Narmer
Divination
Kush
44. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Women
Tuthmosis III
Pharaoh
45. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Pre-dynastic Period
Fertile Crescent
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Women
46. 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
Mesopotamians
Ten Commandments
Babylonian Empire
Hittites
47. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Women
Ma'at
Hammurabi
48. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Pre-dynastic Period
Arameic
Middle East
Patriarchal
49. 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.
Gilgamesh
Obelisks
Egyptian
Shifting Cultivation
50. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
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Israelites
Judah and Israel
City-states
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