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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Subservient
Aten
Iron
Pastoralism
2. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Mesopotamians
Osiris
Animism
3. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Neanderthals
Nefertiti
Potter's Wheel
Matrilocal
4. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Hyksos
War
Jericho
6
5. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
Redistributive
Hebrews
Israelites
6. 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.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Nebuchanezzar
Priests and Magicians
Nefertiti
7. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Nebuchanezzar
Obelisks
6
New Kingdom
8. 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
Hebrews
City-states
Hittites
Ramesses II
9. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Priests and Magicians
Egyptian
Civilization
Aten
10. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Women
Ma'at
Papyrus
Hieroglyphics
11. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Thebes
Ancient Egyptians
Shifting Cultivation
Mythopoeic
12. 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
Military
Ten Commandments
Nile River
Indus Valley Civilizations
13. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Priests and Magicians
Hyksos
Sumerian
Ra
14. 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
Human
City-states
Persians
15. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
8 -000 BC
Cuneiform
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Fertile Crescent
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.
Hebrews
Pharaoh
Hyksos
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
17. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Jericho
Priests and Magicians
Animism
War
18. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Middle Kingdom
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Military
Ten Commandments
19. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Divination
Judah and Israel
Shifting Cultivation
Egyptian
20. 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.
Ra
Jerusalem
Hammurabi
Flint
21. 'Soldiers of God'
Flint
Animism
Israelites
Potter's Wheel
22. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Kush
Narmer
Arameic
Flint
23. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Sargon I
Natufian Complex
Mythopoeic
Set
24. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Ma'at
Matrilocal
25. 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
Papyrus
Hittites
Hyksos
Narmer
26. 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.
Divine Right
Gilgamesh
Hyksos
Mythopoeic
27. 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
Tuthmosis III
Priests
Kush
Priests and Magicians
28. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Aten
Military
Thebes
6
29. 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
Nile River
Pharaoh
Old Kingdom
Pre-dynastic Period
30. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Arameic
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Water
Military
31. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Judah and Israel
Civilization
Arameic
32. 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
Amenhotep III
War
Obelisks
Military
33. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
City-states
Old Kingdom
Art
8 -000 BC
34. 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
Tuthmosis III
Osiris
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
35. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Nebuchanezzar
Semites
Sumerian
Patriarchal
36. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Egyptian
Divination
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tuthmosis III
37. 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.
Ramesses II
River-Valley Civilizations
Ma'at
Middle Kingdom
38. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Matrilocal
Divination
Papyrus
Subservient
39. Name for the Hebrew god.
Fertile Crescent
Yahweh or Jehovah
Osiris
Mesopotamian
40. 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
Hammurabi
New Kingdom
Hyksos
River-Valley Civilizations
41. 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
Divine Right
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Ancient Egyptians
42. 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.
Thebes
Old Testament
Sumerians
Kush
43. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Civilization
Indus Valley Civilizations
Animals
Babylonian Empire
44. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Obelisks
Art
Aten
45. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Sumerians
Mesopotamians
War
46. 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.
Old Kingdom
Arameic
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
River-Valley Civilizations
47. 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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Copper
Tutankhamen
Osiris
48. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Semites
Divination
Animals
Pre-dynastic Period
49. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Tutankhamen
Redistributive
Mesopotamian
Subservient
50. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Cuneiform
Copper
Osiris
Aten