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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Monotheism
Kush
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Water
2. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Hittites
Ra
Copper
3. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Ma'at
Bronze Age
Patriarchal
Set
4. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Jericho
Pastoralism
Human
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5. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Middle Kingdom
River-Valley Civilizations
Redistributive
Jerusalem
6. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Pastoralism
Jerusalem
Priests
7. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Iron
Obelisks
Pastoralism
Neanderthals
8. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Ma'at
8 -000 BC
Arameic
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
9. 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.
Tutankhamen
Nefertiti
Divination
Sumerian
10. 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.
Hieroglyphics
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Sumerians
Gilgamesh
11. 'Soldiers of God'
Hatshepsut
Jericho
Israelites
Fertile Crescent
12. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Narmer or Menes
Sumerians
Military
Potter's Wheel
13. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Papyrus
Pastoralism
Ziggurat
14. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Redistributive
Women
Nebuchanezzar
Semites
15. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Set
Fertile Crescent
Neanderthals
Hebrews
16. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Divine Right
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ma'at
Bronze Age
17. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Arameic
Persians
River-Valley Civilizations
Water
18. 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.
City-states
Sargon I
Nefertiti
Neanderthals
19. 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
Bronze Age
Ra
Mesopotamian
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.
Middle Kingdom
Hammurabi
Pre-dynastic Period
Copper
21. 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.
War
Set
Shifting Cultivation
Egyptian
22. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Jericho
City-states
Judah and Israel
Potter's Wheel
23. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Set
Animals
Thebes
24. Name for the Hebrew god.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
City-states
Yahweh or Jehovah
Neanderthals
25. 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
Old Testament
New Kingdom
Monotheism
Shifting Cultivation
26. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Nebuchanezzar
Old Kingdom
Thebes
27. The first civilizations - they created a basic set of tools - intellectual concepts such as writing and mathematics - and political forms that would persist and spread to other parts of Europe - Asia - and Africa. Most were in decline by 1000 BC.
Sumerian
Old Kingdom
River-Valley Civilizations
Tuthmosis III
28. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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29. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests
Egyptian
Priests and Magicians
Obelisks
30. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
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Animism
Pastoralism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
31. 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.
Mesopotamian
Nile River
Hammurabi
Set
32. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Neanderthals
Hyksos
Pre-dynastic Period
Kush
33. 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
Amenhotep III
Natufian Complex
Hatshepsut
Babylonian Empire
34. 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
Jerusalem
Osiris
Women
Obelisks
35. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Israelites
Mythopoeic
Pyramids
8 -000 BC
36. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Art
Ptolemies
Kush
Amenhotep III
37. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Amenhotep III
Narmer or Menes
Judah and Israel
Mesopotamian
38. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Hittites
Jerusalem
Israelites
Jericho
39. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Middle East
Subservient
Tutankhamen
40. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Redistributive
Pharaoh
Mesopotamian
Egyptian
41. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Semites
Pharaoh
River-Valley Civilizations
42. 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
Sumerians
Nefertiti
Indus Valley Civilizations
Hebrews
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.
Tutankhamen
Sargon I
Animism
Matrilocal
44. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Fertile Crescent
Sumerian
Israelites
Hebrews
45. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Women
Natufian Complex
Ancient Egyptians
Sumerians
46. 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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47. 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.
Ten Commandments
Sargon I
Hyksos
Old Testament
48. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Hieroglyphics
Shifting Cultivation
Cuneiform
49. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Israelites
Tuthmosis III
Ten Commandments
Kush
50. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Hittites
8 -000 BC
Ziggurat
Babylonian Empire