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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Obelisks
Judah and Israel
Sumerians
2. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Monotheism
Bronze Age
Sumerian
Cheops or Khufu
3. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Bronze Age
Obelisks
Babylonian Empire
4. 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.
Hebrews
Water
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Phoenicians
5. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Babylonian Empire
Set
Divine Right
6. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hammurabi
Mesopotamian
Egyptian
7. 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.
Ra
Narmer
Priests
Fertile Crescent
8. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Potter's Wheel
Animism
Pyramids
9. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Sargon I
Indus Valley Civilizations
Divine Right
10. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Neanderthals
City-states
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Ancient Egyptians
11. 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
Military
Ra
8 -000 BC
12. 'Soldiers of God'
Animals
Fertile Crescent
Israelites
Sargon I
13. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Monotheism
Middle Kingdom
Nebuchanezzar
Arameic
14. 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
Arameic
Women
Narmer or Menes
Tuthmosis III
15. 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.
Patriarchal
Sargon I
Shifting Cultivation
Cuneiform
16. 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.
Redistributive
Subservient
Hyksos
Military
17. 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
Art
New Kingdom
Hatshepsut
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
18. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Jericho
Gilgamesh
Women
Neanderthals
19. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Fertile Crescent
Bronze Age
Pastoralism
Pre-dynastic Period
20. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Priests
Gilgamesh
Sumerian
21. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Tuthmosis III
Narmer or Menes
Military
Pyramids
22. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Old Kingdom
Mesopotamian
Cuneiform
Hatshepsut
23. 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.
Pharaoh
River-Valley Civilizations
Women
Papyrus
24. 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
Divination
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Aten
25. 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.
Gilgamesh
Art
Middle East
Nile River
26. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Mesopotamians
War
Ma'at
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
27. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
New Kingdom
Mesopotamians
Narmer
Bronze Age
28. 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.
Natufian Complex
Divination
Ancient Egyptians
Hebrews
29. 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.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Hyksos
Aten
Cuneiform
30. 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.
Animism
Tuthmosis III
Kush
City-states
31. 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.
Military
Set
Hammurabi
Human
32. The period prior to 12 -000 BC typified by the use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence; describes the majority of 2 million plus years of the existence of homo species.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Neanderthals
Middle East
33. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Divine Right
Mesopotamians
Women
Hieroglyphics
34. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Ra
Amenhotep III
Iron
Copper
35. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Flint
Ptolemies
Sumerian
Sumerians
36. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Middle East
Hieroglyphics
Ma'at
37. 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.
New Kingdom
Pyramids
Pastoralism
Arameic
38. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Neanderthals
New Kingdom
Water
Redistributive
39. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Babylonian Empire
Matrilocal
Pyramids
Ptolemies
40. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Natufian Complex
Thebes
Set
Kush
41. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Mythopoeic
Yahweh or Jehovah
River-Valley Civilizations
42. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
8 -000 BC
War
Jerusalem
Ptolemies
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
Divination
Hebrews
Yahweh or Jehovah
Osiris
44. 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.
Redistributive
Flint
Ramesses II
Middle Kingdom
45. 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
Potter's Wheel
Narmer or Menes
Nebuchanezzar
Old Kingdom
46. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Animism
Water
Sargon I
Hatshepsut
47. Indo-European people who entered Mesopotamia in 1750 BC - destroying the Babylonian Empire; partnered with the Egyptians to destroy Syria - then turned on the Egyptians conquering them and ruling for several centuries; played a major role in transmit
Narmer or Menes
Potter's Wheel
Hittites
Tuthmosis III
48. 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
Narmer or Menes
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Sumerians
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
49. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Judah and Israel
Narmer or Menes
Priests
Cheops or Khufu
50. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Jerusalem
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Human
Animism