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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Jericho
Hyksos
Pharaoh
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
2. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Nebuchanezzar
Middle East
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
3. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Ptolemies
Neanderthals
Narmer
Priests
4. 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.
Osiris
River-Valley Civilizations
Ptolemies
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
5. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Sargon I
Hieroglyphics
Animals
Water
6. 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
Hammurabi
Natufian Complex
Amenhotep III
Narmer or Menes
7. Name for the Hebrew god.
Bronze Age
Pyramids
Yahweh or Jehovah
Indus Valley Civilizations
8. 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.
Semites
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Civilization
Neanderthals
9. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Nebuchanezzar
Divine Right
Israelites
10. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Pastoralism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Egyptian
11. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Hebrews
Redistributive
Patriarchal
Mesopotamian
12. 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.
Animism
City-states
Priests
Hieroglyphics
13. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Nefertiti
Ancient Egyptians
Iron
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
14. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Hatshepsut
Thebes
Hammurabi
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
15. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mythopoeic
Mesopotamians
Ancient Egyptians
16. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Animals
Subservient
Matrilocal
Priests and Magicians
17. 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
Patriarchal
Bronze Age
Divine Right
Indus Valley Civilizations
18. 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
Semites
Arameic
Old Kingdom
19. 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.
Judah and Israel
Ten Commandments
Set
Old Testament
20. The Greek leaders of Egypt after it was conquered by Alexander the Great. These leaders took on much of the Egyptian culture - even calling themselves Pharaoh.
Sumerians
Osiris
Ptolemies
Thebes
21. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Sumerians
Priests
Cheops or Khufu
Ptolemies
22. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Hebrews
Jerusalem
Water
Human
23. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Pre-dynastic Period
Ra
Nefertiti
Obelisks
24. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Military
War
Pre-dynastic Period
25. 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
Ten Commandments
Jericho
Tuthmosis III
Ziggurat
26. 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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27. 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.
Art
Shifting Cultivation
Sumerians
Neanderthals
28. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Monotheism
Iron
Set
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29. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Military
Hammurabi
Hatshepsut
30. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Jericho
Cuneiform
Egyptian
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
31. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Mythopoeic
Gilgamesh
Indus Valley Civilizations
Fertile Crescent
32. 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.
Ramesses II
Ancient Egyptians
Old Kingdom
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
33. 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
Subservient
Hebrews
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Copper
34. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Papyrus
Tutankhamen
Sumerians
Narmer
35. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Divination
Animals
Priests
36. 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.
8 -000 BC
Nile River
Phoenicians
Divine Right
37. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Egyptian
Patriarchal
38. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Phoenicians
Persians
Nebuchanezzar
39. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Shifting Cultivation
Pyramids
Natufian Complex
Ra
40. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Sumerian
Divine Right
Human
Tuthmosis III
41. 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.
Arameic
Neanderthals
Hieroglyphics
Subservient
42. 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.
Aten
Semites
Persians
Matrilocal
43. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Potter's Wheel
Matrilocal
Osiris
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.
Hittites
Pharaoh
Mesopotamians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
45. Egyptian civilization sprang up in northern Africa - along the ______________; this river played a crucial role in the ability of the Egyptians to produce an abundant harvest.
Nile River
New Kingdom
Kush
Gilgamesh
46. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Persians
Flint
Cuneiform
Jerusalem
47. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Jerusalem
Mesopotamians
River-Valley Civilizations
48. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Potter's Wheel
Civilization
8 -000 BC
Jerusalem
49. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Art
Osiris
Civilization
Jericho
50. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Babylonian Empire
Military
Ziggurat
Hittites