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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Ziggurat
Mesopotamians
Ma'at
Divine Right
2. 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
Sumerians
Tuthmosis III
Aten
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
3. 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.
Women
Ancient Egyptians
Narmer or Menes
Ptolemies
4. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Art
Cuneiform
Sumerians
Persians
5. 'Soldiers of God'
Jericho
Monotheism
Phoenicians
Israelites
6. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Sumerians
Animals
Ziggurat
Military
7. 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
Pyramids
Civilization
Hatshepsut
New Kingdom
8. 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
Sumerians
Jerusalem
8 -000 BC
9. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
River-Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamian
10. 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.
Bronze Age
Priests and Magicians
Hieroglyphics
Hammurabi
11. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Tutankhamen
Papyrus
12. 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
Judah and Israel
Aten
Amenhotep III
13. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Phoenicians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Papyrus
Persians
14. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Priests
Bronze Age
Tuthmosis III
Water
15. Egyptian Pharaoh of the New Kingdom - attempted to reduce the power of the priests by establishing a monotheistic religion dedicated to Aten - the sun-god - replacing the tradition Egyptian pantheon of gods. He established himself as the sole priest
Israelites
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Cheops or Khufu
Egyptian
16. 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
Patriarchal
Jericho
Osiris
Narmer or Menes
17. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Ra
Old Kingdom
Jerusalem
Egyptian
18. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Nefertiti
Tutankhamen
Natufian Complex
19. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Natufian Complex
Narmer or Menes
Sargon I
Nebuchanezzar
20. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Divine Right
Persians
8 -000 BC
21. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Animals
Mesopotamians
Tutankhamen
22. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Mesopotamian
City-states
Old Kingdom
Monotheism
23. 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
Hammurabi
Tuthmosis III
Jericho
Tutankhamen
24. 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.
Phoenicians
Sargon I
Obelisks
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
25. 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
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Priests
Old Kingdom
Papyrus
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.
Gilgamesh
Shifting Cultivation
Priests
Hittites
27. 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.
Semites
Hyksos
Nefertiti
Divine Right
28. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
New Kingdom
Babylonian Empire
Old Kingdom
Mythopoeic
29. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Jericho
Ramesses II
Nebuchanezzar
Mythopoeic
30. 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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31. 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.
Cheops or Khufu
Ptolemies
Middle Kingdom
Ten Commandments
32. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Pastoralism
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Mesopotamian
Matrilocal
33. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pharaoh
Priests and Magicians
Ancient Egyptians
34. 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.
Flint
Semites
Monotheism
Hyksos
35. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Potter's Wheel
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Sumerians
36. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Mythopoeic
Middle East
Ptolemies
Jerusalem
37. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
City-states
Old Kingdom
38. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Animals
War
Ziggurat
Redistributive
39. 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.
Ten Commandments
Women
Judah and Israel
City-states
40. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
River-Valley Civilizations
Amenhotep III
Ptolemies
41. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
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Pastoralism
Mythopoeic
Copper
42. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Cheops or Khufu
Fertile Crescent
Sumerian
43. 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.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Narmer or Menes
Old Testament
Gilgamesh
44. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Mythopoeic
Priests
Judah and Israel
45. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Indus Valley Civilizations
8 -000 BC
Sumerians
46. 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.
Pyramids
Sumerians
Ma'at
Thebes
47. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Nefertiti
Mythopoeic
Jerusalem
Middle Kingdom
48. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Cheops or Khufu
Pharaoh
Pyramids
Persians
49. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Patriarchal
Fertile Crescent
Flint
50. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Priests and Magicians
Iron
Nefertiti
Pharaoh