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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Cheops or Khufu
Sargon I
Narmer
Redistributive
2. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Hebrews
Subservient
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
3. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Fertile Crescent
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Middle East
4. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Hyksos
Jerusalem
Civilization
Hammurabi
5. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Ziggurat
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Neanderthals
6. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Iron
Mythopoeic
Priests and Magicians
Papyrus
7. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Sumerians
Amenhotep III
8. 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
Patriarchal
New Kingdom
Matrilocal
Tuthmosis III
9. 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
River-Valley Civilizations
Osiris
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Persians
10. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Monotheism
Hyksos
Pre-dynastic Period
11. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Divination
Hyksos
Potter's Wheel
Semites
12. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Semites
Old Kingdom
Osiris
Subservient
13. 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.
Osiris
Nebuchanezzar
Nile River
Middle East
14. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Priests and Magicians
Yahweh or Jehovah
Neanderthals
Indus Valley Civilizations
15. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Middle Kingdom
Nile River
Sumerians
Sargon I
16. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Sumerian
Yahweh or Jehovah
Sargon I
Thebes
17. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
Iron
Mythopoeic
Pharaoh
18. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
City-states
Bronze Age
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Priests and Magicians
19. 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.
Hammurabi
Sumerian
Arameic
Sumerians
20. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Fertile Crescent
New Kingdom
Narmer
Patriarchal
21. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
City-states
Papyrus
Gilgamesh
Art
22. 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
Pharaoh
Hittites
Civilization
Jerusalem
23. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Priests
Women
Human
24. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Hieroglyphics
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Human
Sumerians
25. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Judah and Israel
Military
Sumerians
26. 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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Nile River
Hieroglyphics
Copper
27. Name for the Hebrew god.
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Ra
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Yahweh or Jehovah
28. 'Soldiers of God'
War
Israelites
Potter's Wheel
Subservient
29. 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
Sumerians
Divine Right
Hebrews
Semites
30. 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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31. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Sumerians
Ten Commandments
Natufian Complex
Judah and Israel
32. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
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Jericho
Old Kingdom
Semites
33. 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.
Hebrews
Shifting Cultivation
City-states
Amenhotep III
34. 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.
Pharaoh
Obelisks
Old Testament
Hittites
35. 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
Ramesses II
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Cheops or Khufu
Pharaoh
36. 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
Animals
Set
Matrilocal
37. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Animals
Ancient Egyptians
38. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Yahweh or Jehovah
Indus Valley Civilizations
Nile River
39. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
City-states
Nile River
Narmer or Menes
Nefertiti
40. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Monotheism
City-states
Thebes
Middle East
41. 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.
Amenhotep III
Divination
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Subservient
42. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Hittites
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Bronze Age
43. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Ramesses II
Cuneiform
Babylonian Empire
44. 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
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Babylonian Empire
New Kingdom
Art
45. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Tuthmosis III
Old Kingdom
Women
Matrilocal
46. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Osiris
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Hammurabi
8 -000 BC
47. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Priests
Ramesses II
Hatshepsut
48. 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.
Egyptian
Priests
Middle East
Ra
49. 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.
Flint
Tutankhamen
Art
Mesopotamian
50. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Pyramids
Gilgamesh
Osiris
Obelisks