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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
New Kingdom
Priests
Fertile Crescent
Copper
2. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
City-states
New Kingdom
Hieroglyphics
Sumerians
3. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Kush
Civilization
Sargon I
Flint
4. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Sargon I
Ten Commandments
Subservient
Animism
5. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Sumerians
Ramesses II
Nebuchanezzar
Animism
6. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
New Kingdom
Iron
Sumerians
7. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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8. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Civilization
Obelisks
Subservient
Monotheism
9. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Copper
Semites
Narmer or Menes
Osiris
10. 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
Hyksos
Phoenicians
River-Valley Civilizations
New Kingdom
11. 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.
Divination
Shifting Cultivation
Ancient Egyptians
Nebuchanezzar
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.
Nefertiti
Subservient
Divination
Obelisks
13. 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
Sumerian
Mesopotamians
Amenhotep III
City-states
14. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
River-Valley Civilizations
Water
Women
Old Testament
15. 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
City-states
Hatshepsut
Shifting Cultivation
River-Valley Civilizations
16. 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.
Hittites
Military
Animals
Hammurabi
17. 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
Hittites
Iron
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Neanderthals
18. 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.
Papyrus
Nefertiti
Patriarchal
Redistributive
19. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Semites
Arameic
Egyptian
Nile River
20. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Nebuchanezzar
Indus Valley Civilizations
Potter's Wheel
Redistributive
21. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Amenhotep III
Papyrus
Subservient
Cheops or Khufu
22. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Patriarchal
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Divination
23. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Narmer
Yahweh or Jehovah
City-states
24. Name for the Hebrew god.
Papyrus
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ma'at
Yahweh or Jehovah
25. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Obelisks
Patriarchal
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Persians
26. 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
Tutankhamen
Yahweh or Jehovah
Obelisks
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
27. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Nefertiti
Redistributive
Old Testament
28. '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
Egyptian
Divine Right
Art
29. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Natufian Complex
Narmer
Sargon I
30. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Judah and Israel
Civilization
Osiris
Sumerian
31. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Ancient Egyptians
Pastoralism
Judah and Israel
Cuneiform
32. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Divination
Mesopotamians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Civilization
33. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Kush
Hebrews
6
34. 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.
Hittites
Hyksos
Flint
Obelisks
35. 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.
Priests
Copper
Ptolemies
Gilgamesh
36. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Nefertiti
Mesopotamian
Israelites
Divine Right
37. 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.
Pyramids
Tutankhamen
Narmer
Amenhotep III
38. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Aten
Sumerians
Middle Kingdom
39. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Monotheism
Women
Israelites
Copper
40. 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.
Neanderthals
Pharaoh
Animism
Hittites
41. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Narmer
Old Testament
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
42. 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.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Bronze Age
Thebes
Gilgamesh
43. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Hittites
Pre-dynastic Period
Cheops or Khufu
Priests and Magicians
44. 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
Subservient
Nebuchanezzar
Sumerians
Hebrews
45. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Semites
Hebrews
Narmer
Middle East
46. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Civilization
Monotheism
Ra
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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Ancient Egyptians
Papyrus
Priests
48. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Semites
Redistributive
Tutankhamen
Narmer or Menes
49. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Gilgamesh
Patriarchal
Tuthmosis III
50. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Jerusalem
Mesopotamians
Nile River