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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Pyramids
Monotheism
Ancient Egyptians
Subservient
2. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Matrilocal
Ra
Pharaoh
3. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Ra
Amenhotep III
Priests and Magicians
Egyptian
4. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Nile River
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Pyramids
5. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Copper
Military
Mesopotamian
Gilgamesh
6. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Phoenicians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Priests
7. 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
Military
Women
New Kingdom
Hyksos
8. 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.
War
City-states
Mesopotamian
6
9. 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.
Tutankhamen
Pre-dynastic Period
Pastoralism
Ptolemies
10. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Flint
Hieroglyphics
War
Indus Valley Civilizations
11. 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
Matrilocal
Old Kingdom
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
12. 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.
Matrilocal
Hittites
Pyramids
Hammurabi
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.
Tutankhamen
Phoenicians
Persians
Military
14. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ramesses II
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
8 -000 BC
15. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Narmer or Menes
Potter's Wheel
Mesopotamians
Middle Kingdom
16. '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
River-Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamians
Sumerian
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
Mesopotamians
Cheops or Khufu
Military
18. 'Soldiers of God'
Flint
Ma'at
Israelites
Ten Commandments
19. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Babylonian Empire
Sargon I
Mythopoeic
20. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Egyptian
Monotheism
Women
Iron
21. 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
Set
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Flint
Shifting Cultivation
22. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Ptolemies
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Redistributive
Semites
23. 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.
Old Testament
Arameic
Tutankhamen
Ma'at
24. 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
Sargon I
Cuneiform
Cheops or Khufu
Amenhotep III
25. 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.
Water
Redistributive
Kush
Gilgamesh
26. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Pyramids
Tuthmosis III
Priests and Magicians
Flint
27. 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.
Sumerians
Aten
Yahweh or Jehovah
Redistributive
28. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Egyptian
Animals
Monotheism
29. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Redistributive
Pyramids
Jerusalem
Animism
30. 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.
Israelites
Cheops or Khufu
Pyramids
Tutankhamen
31. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Yahweh or Jehovah
Israelites
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
32. 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
Hyksos
Sumerians
Hebrews
Women
33. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pyramids
Ten Commandments
Nile River
34. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Iron
Military
City-states
Hittites
35. 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.
Middle East
Sumerians
Old Kingdom
Arameic
36. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Set
Sumerians
Middle East
Thebes
37. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Pharaoh
6
Natufian Complex
Narmer or Menes
38. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Animism
Copper
39. Migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states; established the first form of writing - cuneiform.
Sumerians
Military
Fertile Crescent
Iron
40. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Middle Kingdom
Matrilocal
New Kingdom
Patriarchal
41. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Obelisks
Yahweh or Jehovah
Art
Papyrus
42. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Military
Priests
Copper
43. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Divination
Sargon I
Mesopotamians
44. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Priests and Magicians
River-Valley Civilizations
Animals
Hyksos
45. 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
New Kingdom
Copper
Animals
46. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Civilization
Yahweh or Jehovah
Set
War
47. 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.
Thebes
Sumerians
Pre-dynastic Period
Arameic
48. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Bronze Age
Pre-dynastic Period
War
49. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Bronze Age
Semites
Sargon I
50. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Monotheism
Narmer or Menes
Cheops or Khufu