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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Sumerians
Sumerians
Natufian Complex
Amenhotep III
2. 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
Babylonian Empire
Old Kingdom
Human
3. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Mythopoeic
Nebuchanezzar
Ancient Egyptians
Hebrews
4. 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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Persians
Priests and Magicians
Civilization
5. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Yahweh or Jehovah
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pre-dynastic Period
6. 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
Subservient
Ziggurat
Hatshepsut
7. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hebrews
Hammurabi
Redistributive
8. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Subservient
Pre-dynastic Period
Thebes
Pastoralism
9. 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
Tutankhamen
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Judah and Israel
10. 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.
Ziggurat
Nefertiti
Animism
Priests
11. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Babylonian Empire
8 -000 BC
Hyksos
12. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Neanderthals
Narmer
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
13. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Hyksos
Yahweh or Jehovah
Sumerians
Priests
14. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Flint
Pyramids
Nile River
15. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Nebuchanezzar
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Ra
16. 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.
Military
Old Kingdom
Arameic
Women
17. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Fertile Crescent
Judah and Israel
Animals
Middle Kingdom
18. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Aten
Hittites
Thebes
19. 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.
Neanderthals
Hyksos
Hatshepsut
Sumerian
20. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Matrilocal
Jericho
River-Valley Civilizations
21. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Redistributive
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Mythopoeic
Nefertiti
22. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Cheops or Khufu
Phoenicians
Pyramids
23. 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
Jericho
Hebrews
Pre-dynastic Period
Kush
24. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Old Kingdom
Divine Right
Ma'at
Israelites
25. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Iron
Sumerian
Mesopotamians
Ma'at
26. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Flint
City-states
Divination
27. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Ten Commandments
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ra
River-Valley Civilizations
28. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Sumerians
Civilization
Ten Commandments
8 -000 BC
29. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Sumerian
Fertile Crescent
Copper
30. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
New Kingdom
Pastoralism
Hebrews
31. 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
Set
Old Testament
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
32. 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
Mythopoeic
Narmer
Redistributive
33. 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
Nefertiti
Kush
Old Kingdom
34. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Women
Cuneiform
35. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Hebrews
River-Valley Civilizations
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
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36. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Divine Right
Monotheism
Ancient Egyptians
Middle East
37. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Sargon I
Neanderthals
Middle Kingdom
Pyramids
38. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Tuthmosis III
Persians
Mesopotamian
Gilgamesh
39. 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
Osiris
Hammurabi
Iron
40. 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
Aten
Old Kingdom
Patriarchal
Indus Valley Civilizations
41. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Hyksos
Subservient
Pharaoh
City-states
42. Name for the Hebrew god.
Natufian Complex
Hatshepsut
Copper
Yahweh or Jehovah
43. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Neanderthals
Cheops or Khufu
Hyksos
Sumerians
44. 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
Neanderthals
Amenhotep III
Aten
Shifting Cultivation
45. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Subservient
Sumerian
Babylonian Empire
Gilgamesh
46. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Narmer or Menes
Mesopotamian
Amenhotep III
Yahweh or Jehovah
47. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Ancient Egyptians
Jericho
Patriarchal
48. 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
Hebrews
Ra
New Kingdom
Egyptian
49. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Tutankhamen
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Bronze Age
Tuthmosis III
50. 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.
War
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Amenhotep III
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age