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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.
Osiris
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Sumerian
Flint
2. 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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Jericho
Priests
Middle Kingdom
3. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
Egyptian
Sumerians
Bronze Age
4. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Iron
Cheops or Khufu
Mesopotamian
5. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Jerusalem
Ancient Egyptians
Sumerian
Old Kingdom
6. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Nile River
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Human
Narmer or Menes
7. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Water
Priests and Magicians
Ancient Egyptians
8. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Pyramids
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Old Testament
9. 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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10. 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
Water
Middle East
Hebrews
Nile River
11. 'Soldiers of God'
War
Tuthmosis III
Divination
Israelites
12. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Yahweh or Jehovah
Divination
Nile River
13. 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.
Phoenicians
Ma'at
Water
Nefertiti
14. 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.
Mesopotamian
Human
Nebuchanezzar
Gilgamesh
15. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Nebuchanezzar
Divine Right
Sumerians
Papyrus
16. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Copper
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mesopotamians
Egyptian
17. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Nefertiti
Shifting Cultivation
Hittites
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.
Ra
Ramesses II
Flint
Obelisks
19. 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
Sargon I
Indus Valley Civilizations
Osiris
Ramesses II
20. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Sargon I
Mythopoeic
Ziggurat
21. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Ancient Egyptians
Hammurabi
Judah and Israel
Sumerians
22. 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.
Women
Pre-dynastic Period
Arameic
Nefertiti
23. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Narmer
Hebrews
Matrilocal
Natufian Complex
24. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Pharaoh
Fertile Crescent
Redistributive
25. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Hebrews
Priests and Magicians
Narmer
26. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Matrilocal
Tuthmosis III
Persians
27. 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
Thebes
Babylonian Empire
Ramesses II
28. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Ma'at
Neanderthals
Bronze Age
29. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Aten
Natufian Complex
Women
30. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Pyramids
Thebes
Bronze Age
Monotheism
31. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Obelisks
Amenhotep III
Hittites
Subservient
32. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Hammurabi
War
Kush
Tutankhamen
33. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Set
Kush
Hyksos
Cuneiform
34. 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.
Gilgamesh
Bronze Age
Neanderthals
Aten
35. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Natufian Complex
Hieroglyphics
Iron
36. 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.
Old Testament
City-states
Pastoralism
Hyksos
37. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Pyramids
Sumerians
Priests
38. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ancient Egyptians
Cuneiform
Monotheism
39. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
6
Middle Kingdom
Nile River
Matrilocal
40. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Priests and Magicians
Pre-dynastic Period
Narmer or Menes
Shifting Cultivation
41. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Ancient Egyptians
Priests and Magicians
Military
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
42. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Nile River
8 -000 BC
Hyksos
43. 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
Persians
Old Kingdom
Hieroglyphics
Neanderthals
44. 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.
War
Sargon I
Ma'at
Middle Kingdom
45. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Sumerians
Jerusalem
Yahweh or Jehovah
Pharaoh
46. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Phoenicians
Set
Women
Semites
47. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Fertile Crescent
Hebrews
Amenhotep III
Women
48. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Mesopotamians
Narmer or Menes
Cheops or Khufu
Set
49. Name for the Hebrew god.
Ziggurat
Monotheism
Yahweh or Jehovah
War
50. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Sumerians
Nebuchanezzar
Hieroglyphics
Aten