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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Cuneiform
Pharaoh
Tuthmosis III
2. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Ra
Thebes
Middle Kingdom
3. 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.
Potter's Wheel
Amenhotep III
Neanderthals
Old Testament
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.
Mythopoeic
Animals
Gilgamesh
Pre-dynastic Period
5. 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.
Water
8 -000 BC
Hieroglyphics
Ancient Egyptians
6. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Hammurabi
Flint
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Patriarchal
7. 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.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mesopotamian
Ziggurat
Bronze Age
8. 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
Hittites
Divination
Persians
Sumerians
9. 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.
Divination
Nebuchanezzar
Natufian Complex
Mesopotamians
10. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Priests and Magicians
Military
Cheops or Khufu
Mythopoeic
11. 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.
Matrilocal
Yahweh or Jehovah
Phoenicians
Old Testament
12. 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
Yahweh or Jehovah
Indus Valley Civilizations
Iron
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
13. 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
Ra
Shifting Cultivation
Osiris
New Kingdom
14. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Redistributive
Iron
Monotheism
Priests
15. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Middle Kingdom
Ra
Redistributive
Semites
16. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Ma'at
Phoenicians
Women
Hatshepsut
17. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Narmer
Bronze Age
Ten Commandments
18. 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.
Fertile Crescent
Ptolemies
Nefertiti
Semites
19. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Arameic
Hammurabi
6
Fertile Crescent
20. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
River-Valley Civilizations
Neanderthals
Priests and Magicians
Divination
21. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Copper
Sumerian
Animism
War
22. 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
Pastoralism
Old Kingdom
Matrilocal
Middle Kingdom
23. 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.
Shifting Cultivation
Bronze Age
Hatshepsut
Flint
24. 'Soldiers of God'
Pyramids
Arameic
Israelites
Ten Commandments
25. 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
Pyramids
Pharaoh
Animals
26. 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
Judah and Israel
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Ma'at
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
27. 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
Semites
Mythopoeic
Yahweh or Jehovah
Tuthmosis III
28. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
River-Valley Civilizations
Ma'at
Nebuchanezzar
Ramesses II
29. 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
Old Testament
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Subservient
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
30. 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
Ancient Egyptians
Civilization
Human
31. 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.
Hieroglyphics
Hammurabi
Ra
Pre-dynastic Period
32. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Middle East
Israelites
Ptolemies
Matrilocal
33. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Patriarchal
Middle Kingdom
Narmer
Jericho
34. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Hittites
Hieroglyphics
Mesopotamians
35. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Ptolemies
Kush
Priests
Ma'at
36. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Priests
Pastoralism
Cheops or Khufu
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
37. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Matrilocal
Hammurabi
War
Flint
38. 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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39. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Hebrews
Art
Animism
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
40. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Priests
Divination
Pyramids
Middle East
41. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Natufian Complex
Israelites
Middle East
Papyrus
42. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tutankhamen
Indus Valley Civilizations
Persians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
43. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Middle East
Middle Kingdom
Fertile Crescent
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
44. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tutankhamen
Shifting Cultivation
Babylonian Empire
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.
Ra
6
Gilgamesh
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
46. Name for the Hebrew god.
Civilization
Yahweh or Jehovah
6
Cheops or Khufu
47. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Israelites
Hittites
Animism
Animals
48. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Hatshepsut
Shifting Cultivation
Pharaoh
Mesopotamian
49. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Pyramids
Nile River
Pre-dynastic Period
50. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Pyramids
Phoenicians
Jerusalem