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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Semites
City-states
Women
2. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Bronze Age
Pyramids
Judah and Israel
3. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Old Testament
Redistributive
Pastoralism
6
4. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Civilization
Divination
Judah and Israel
Babylonian Empire
5. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Hittites
Civilization
Natufian Complex
Yahweh or Jehovah
6. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Ziggurat
Persians
Hatshepsut
7. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
War
Jericho
Human
Subservient
8. 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
Sumerians
Fertile Crescent
Old Kingdom
Thebes
9. 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.
Divine Right
Ziggurat
Sumerians
Nile River
10. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Ancient Egyptians
Monotheism
Tutankhamen
Hieroglyphics
11. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Mythopoeic
Narmer
Animals
Ramesses II
12. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Nile River
Nefertiti
8 -000 BC
13. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Priests and Magicians
Israelites
Ra
14. 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
Hebrews
6
Hatshepsut
Jericho
15. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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16. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Ramesses II
Jerusalem
Thebes
Middle Kingdom
17. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Monotheism
Hieroglyphics
Military
Fertile Crescent
18. 'Soldiers of God'
New Kingdom
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Israelites
Middle East
19. 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.
Priests
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Natufian Complex
Monotheism
20. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
8 -000 BC
Water
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Babylonian Empire
21. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Judah and Israel
Ramesses II
Animism
Set
22. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Hieroglyphics
Flint
Monotheism
Ptolemies
23. 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
New Kingdom
Mesopotamian
6
Monotheism
24. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Iron
New Kingdom
Hittites
25. 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.
8 -000 BC
Semites
Matrilocal
Ptolemies
26. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Cuneiform
Hatshepsut
Flint
Pastoralism
27. 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.
Natufian Complex
Copper
Tutankhamen
Pre-dynastic Period
28. 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
Divine Right
Tuthmosis III
City-states
Human
29. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Hyksos
Cheops or Khufu
Indus Valley Civilizations
Narmer
30. 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.
Nile River
Sargon I
Arameic
Hyksos
31. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Thebes
Sargon I
Nefertiti
Nebuchanezzar
32. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Nile River
Cuneiform
Set
Redistributive
33. 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
Water
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Thebes
34. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Jericho
Fertile Crescent
War
Flint
35. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Priests and Magicians
Tuthmosis III
War
Judah and Israel
36. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Civilization
Ten Commandments
Cuneiform
Fertile Crescent
37. 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
Ma'at
Hatshepsut
Aten
38. 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.
Ra
Ramesses II
Pharaoh
Ptolemies
39. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Art
Middle East
Hammurabi
Subservient
40. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
8 -000 BC
River-Valley Civilizations
Yahweh or Jehovah
War
41. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Yahweh or Jehovah
Indus Valley Civilizations
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
42. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Babylonian Empire
Bronze Age
Redistributive
Thebes
43. 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
Pharaoh
Sargon I
Redistributive
Osiris
44. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Nefertiti
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Women
Sumerians
45. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Fertile Crescent
Subservient
Old Kingdom
Nefertiti
46. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Thebes
Narmer or Menes
Matrilocal
Iron
47. 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
Animism
Middle East
Persians
48. 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
Ramesses II
Amenhotep III
Old Testament
Sumerians
49. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Neanderthals
Women
Cuneiform
50. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Hebrews
Persians
Hyksos
Pastoralism