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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Sumerians
Cuneiform
Pharaoh
Priests and Magicians
2. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Iron
Redistributive
Natufian Complex
3. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
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Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Bronze Age
4. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Potter's Wheel
Ancient Egyptians
Obelisks
5. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Neanderthals
River-Valley Civilizations
Nile River
6. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Cuneiform
Copper
Natufian Complex
Divine Right
7. 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.
Old Testament
Divination
Monotheism
Animals
8. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Ra
Art
Sumerian
Hieroglyphics
9. 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.
Amenhotep III
Sargon I
River-Valley Civilizations
Patriarchal
10. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Animals
Middle East
Narmer or Menes
Osiris
11. 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.
Ra
Tuthmosis III
Divination
Mesopotamians
12. 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
Neanderthals
Hieroglyphics
Pre-dynastic Period
13. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Ramesses II
Ancient Egyptians
Women
Subservient
14. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
River-Valley Civilizations
Ancient Egyptians
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
New Kingdom
15. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Ra
Iron
Flint
Redistributive
16. 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.
Phoenicians
Priests
8 -000 BC
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
17. 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
Hyksos
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Obelisks
Hatshepsut
18. 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
Animals
Nefertiti
Indus Valley Civilizations
19. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Sargon I
Divine Right
Bronze Age
20. 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
Civilization
Middle East
Sumerians
Hittites
21. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mythopoeic
Priests and Magicians
Civilization
22. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
Narmer or Menes
Divine Right
Egyptian
23. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Ancient Egyptians
Jericho
Old Kingdom
24. 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
Hammurabi
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Pre-dynastic Period
Ziggurat
25. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Sumerians
Art
Iron
26. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
City-states
Ancient Egyptians
Babylonian Empire
27. 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.
Neanderthals
Shifting Cultivation
Ma'at
Jerusalem
28. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
New Kingdom
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Hieroglyphics
Art
29. 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
Ra
Divination
Amenhotep III
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
30. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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31. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Fertile Crescent
Cheops or Khufu
River-Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamian
32. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Sumerian
Israelites
Redistributive
Sargon I
33. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Iron
City-states
Flint
Fertile Crescent
34. 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.
Mythopoeic
City-states
Nefertiti
Gilgamesh
35. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Sumerians
Natufian Complex
Semites
Indus Valley Civilizations
36. 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.
New Kingdom
Human
Aten
Phoenicians
37. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Cheops or Khufu
Ziggurat
Pyramids
38. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Pastoralism
Hammurabi
Set
39. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Arameic
Papyrus
Tutankhamen
Human
40. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Arameic
8 -000 BC
Aten
Subservient
41. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Narmer
Animism
Jericho
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
42. 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.
Hyksos
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Divine Right
Phoenicians
43. Ruler of Akkad - he established the first empire in Mesopotamian civilization conquering and uniting the Sumerian city-states under a centralized bureaucratic government. Installed himself as the mediator between the gods and man - above the priests.
Narmer
Sargon I
Sumerians
Hyksos
44. 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.
Semites
Matrilocal
Pharaoh
Sumerians
45. 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.
Ra
Ten Commandments
Ziggurat
Cheops or Khufu
46. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Patriarchal
Narmer or Menes
Kush
Middle East
47. 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.
Mesopotamians
Phoenicians
Art
Divination
48. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Ptolemies
Human
Egyptian
Military
49. 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.
Kush
Hammurabi
Indus Valley Civilizations
Patriarchal
50. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Tuthmosis III
Art
Shifting Cultivation