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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Hatshepsut
Priests and Magicians
Tutankhamen
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
2. 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
Fertile Crescent
Ramesses II
Set
3. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Persians
Pre-dynastic Period
Thebes
Bronze Age
4. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Priests and Magicians
Old Kingdom
Copper
Art
5. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Mythopoeic
Monotheism
Animals
Papyrus
6. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
River-Valley Civilizations
Pastoralism
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
7. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Old Kingdom
Monotheism
Sumerians
Art
8. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Animism
Patriarchal
Sumerian
Water
9. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Patriarchal
Ten Commandments
Persians
10. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Pyramids
New Kingdom
Subservient
Civilization
11. 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.
8 -000 BC
Judah and Israel
War
Tutankhamen
12. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Ziggurat
Thebes
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Military
13. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Hatshepsut
Indus Valley Civilizations
Matrilocal
Egyptian
14. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Obelisks
Water
Ra
Papyrus
15. 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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16. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Matrilocal
Sumerians
Sumerian
17. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Judah and Israel
Copper
Osiris
Redistributive
18. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Gilgamesh
Pharaoh
Persians
19. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Thebes
War
Indus Valley Civilizations
Ten Commandments
20. 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.
Military
Nile River
Neanderthals
Middle Kingdom
21. 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
Hebrews
Neanderthals
Iron
Osiris
22. 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
Semites
Nefertiti
Tuthmosis III
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
23. '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
Gilgamesh
Redistributive
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
24. 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.
Mythopoeic
Fertile Crescent
Potter's Wheel
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
25. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Judah and Israel
Babylonian Empire
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pyramids
26. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Sumerians
Nebuchanezzar
Natufian Complex
27. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Hatshepsut
Old Kingdom
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pastoralism
28. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Ptolemies
Babylonian Empire
Middle East
Divination
29. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Neanderthals
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Aten
Human
30. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Natufian Complex
Iron
Semites
Art
31. 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.
Pharaoh
Ziggurat
Flint
Divine Right
32. 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.
Jericho
New Kingdom
Hatshepsut
Phoenicians
33. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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34. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Patriarchal
Cheops or Khufu
Human
City-states
35. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Hieroglyphics
Obelisks
Gilgamesh
Copper
36. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Arameic
Set
Tutankhamen
Natufian Complex
37. 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
Neanderthals
Amenhotep III
Set
Divine Right
38. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Thebes
Hieroglyphics
Semites
Hittites
39. 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.
Ramesses II
Pharaoh
Sumerian
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
40. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Neanderthals
Indus Valley Civilizations
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Copper
41. 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
8 -000 BC
Civilization
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
War
42. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Pyramids
Copper
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
43. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Narmer
Women
Patriarchal
44. 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.
Animism
Jerusalem
Hieroglyphics
Divination
45. 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.
Divination
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Old Testament
Obelisks
46. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Fertile Crescent
Hammurabi
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Divination
47. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Divine Right
Babylonian Empire
48. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Nefertiti
War
Pyramids
49. 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
Middle East
Neanderthals
Cuneiform
Indus Valley Civilizations
50. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Priests and Magicians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Copper
Hieroglyphics