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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Phoenicians
Neanderthals
Semites
Iron
2. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Jericho
Egyptian
Animals
Art
3. 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.
Monotheism
Obelisks
Pharaoh
Ra
4. 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
New Kingdom
Pharaoh
Kush
Thebes
5. 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
Water
City-states
Ramesses II
Animism
6. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Aten
Ma'at
6
New Kingdom
7. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Women
Natufian Complex
Jerusalem
Water
8. 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
Pharaoh
Nefertiti
Hatshepsut
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
9. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
6
Nefertiti
Military
Ramesses II
10. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Human
Set
River-Valley Civilizations
Ten Commandments
11. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Aten
Hieroglyphics
Jerusalem
Israelites
12. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Arameic
Narmer or Menes
Mesopotamian
Jericho
13. 'Soldiers of God'
Old Kingdom
Israelites
Nebuchanezzar
Pre-dynastic Period
14. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Military
Thebes
Subservient
Narmer or Menes
15. 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
Hieroglyphics
Set
Osiris
Gilgamesh
16. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Nile River
Mesopotamian
Judah and Israel
Pre-dynastic Period
17. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Women
Kush
Semites
Egyptian
18. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Obelisks
Flint
Arameic
Bronze Age
19. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Hatshepsut
Middle Kingdom
Middle East
20. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Potter's Wheel
Gilgamesh
Subservient
21. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Matrilocal
Tuthmosis III
Neanderthals
Ten Commandments
22. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Pharaoh
Old Testament
River-Valley Civilizations
8 -000 BC
23. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
8 -000 BC
Old Testament
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Thebes
24. 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.
Ra
Neanderthals
Arameic
Natufian Complex
25. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Hammurabi
Military
Ra
Fertile Crescent
26. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Matrilocal
Hebrews
Flint
Narmer
27. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Sumerians
Ptolemies
Priests and Magicians
Pharaoh
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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Ancient Egyptians
Divination
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
29. 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
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
City-states
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Israelites
30. Name for the Hebrew god.
Cuneiform
Sargon I
Flint
Yahweh or Jehovah
31. 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
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Tuthmosis III
Monotheism
Thebes
32. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Hammurabi
Women
Jericho
33. 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.
Ra
Phoenicians
Women
Neanderthals
34. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Pharaoh
Divination
New Kingdom
35. 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
Monotheism
Human
Redistributive
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.
Bronze Age
Aten
Judah and Israel
Monotheism
37. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
Yahweh or Jehovah
Subservient
Hatshepsut
38. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Patriarchal
Bronze Age
Animism
Hatshepsut
39. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Hebrews
Mesopotamians
Iron
Patriarchal
40. 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.
Natufian Complex
Animism
Nefertiti
Set
41. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
8 -000 BC
Arameic
Divine Right
Narmer
42. 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
Hebrews
Aten
Egyptian
New Kingdom
43. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Judah and Israel
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Papyrus
Obelisks
44. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
Narmer
45. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Nebuchanezzar
War
Narmer or Menes
Patriarchal
46. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Natufian Complex
Hyksos
Animism
47. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Middle East
Ziggurat
Babylonian Empire
Shifting Cultivation
48. The Egyptian concept of harmony and order - justice and truth. Implied a divine force for harmony and stability which emanated from the beginning of time itself. Good rule by pharaoh signified its presence
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49. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Aten
River-Valley Civilizations
Human
Mythopoeic
50. 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.
War
Sumerians
Jerusalem
Priests
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