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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Israelites
Tutankhamen
Mesopotamian
2. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
New Kingdom
Arameic
Ma'at
Fertile Crescent
3. 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.
Hebrews
Hyksos
Middle Kingdom
Mesopotamian
4. 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.
Ziggurat
Hammurabi
Pre-dynastic Period
Neanderthals
5. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Ancient Egyptians
Amenhotep III
Tuthmosis III
Animism
6. 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.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Shifting Cultivation
New Kingdom
Matrilocal
7. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Water
Gilgamesh
8. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Cheops or Khufu
Nile River
Osiris
Hebrews
9. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Mesopotamians
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Nefertiti
10. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Middle Kingdom
Monotheism
Israelites
11. 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.
Iron
Potter's Wheel
Egyptian
Aten
12. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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13. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Monotheism
Copper
Set
Divination
14. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Phoenicians
Mythopoeic
Matrilocal
15. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Phoenicians
Persians
Priests
Iron
16. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Egyptian
Ptolemies
New Kingdom
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
17. Name for the Hebrew god.
Middle Kingdom
Yahweh or Jehovah
War
Matrilocal
18. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Matrilocal
Women
Monotheism
Shifting Cultivation
19. 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.
Old Testament
Nefertiti
Babylonian Empire
City-states
20. 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.
Art
Narmer
Ancient Egyptians
Copper
21. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Matrilocal
Fertile Crescent
Hebrews
Phoenicians
22. 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
Jerusalem
Gilgamesh
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Neanderthals
23. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Gilgamesh
Neanderthals
Ptolemies
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24. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Mesopotamian
Egyptian
25. 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.
Osiris
Old Testament
Animals
Subservient
26. 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
Divine Right
Indus Valley Civilizations
Thebes
Ancient Egyptians
27. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Pastoralism
Iron
Nebuchanezzar
28. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Subservient
Ra
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
29. 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.
Sumerian
Sumerians
Animism
Yahweh or Jehovah
30. 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
Tutankhamen
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ma'at
31. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Subservient
Patriarchal
Narmer
Amenhotep III
32. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Sargon I
Set
River-Valley Civilizations
33. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Jericho
Tutankhamen
Nebuchanezzar
Phoenicians
34. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Obelisks
Middle East
Sumerians
Hittites
35. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Middle East
Pyramids
Civilization
36. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Redistributive
Ma'at
River-Valley Civilizations
37. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Human
Mesopotamians
City-states
Potter's Wheel
38. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Kush
Bronze Age
Divine Right
Pastoralism
39. 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
Divination
Sumerians
Civilization
Ramesses II
40. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Mythopoeic
Water
Hittites
41. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
War
Middle East
Bronze Age
Monotheism
42. 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
Divination
Osiris
Egyptian
Tuthmosis III
43. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Nile River
Egyptian
Jericho
Civilization
44. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
8 -000 BC
Indus Valley Civilizations
Military
45. 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.
Middle East
Gilgamesh
Tutankhamen
Divine Right
46. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Middle Kingdom
Redistributive
Divination
47. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Arameic
Nile River
Shifting Cultivation
48. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Papyrus
Human
Cuneiform
Copper
49. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Old Testament
Papyrus
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Indus Valley Civilizations
50. During this young Pharaoh's reign - the priests and military leaders who has lost power during the reign of his predecessor - Akenhaten - seized the opportunity to use the boy as their puppet and return Egypt to its traditional religion.
Tutankhamen
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Cuneiform
Human
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