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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Sargon I
River-Valley Civilizations
Hyksos
Aten
2. 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.
Phoenicians
Nefertiti
Redistributive
8 -000 BC
3. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Hittites
Flint
Hatshepsut
4. 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.
Obelisks
Patriarchal
Mesopotamian
Nile River
5. Name for the Hebrew god.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Judah and Israel
Fertile Crescent
Natufian Complex
6. 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.
Patriarchal
Obelisks
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Nefertiti
7. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Kush
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Redistributive
Divination
8. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
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Monotheism
Divine Right
Mesopotamians
9. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Mesopotamians
Phoenicians
Jericho
8 -000 BC
10. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Judah and Israel
Women
Middle East
Pastoralism
11. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Subservient
Thebes
8 -000 BC
12. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Nebuchanezzar
Art
Animism
Israelites
13. 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.
Mesopotamian
Shifting Cultivation
Ramesses II
Sargon I
14. 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.
Jerusalem
City-states
Pre-dynastic Period
Priests and Magicians
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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Copper
Jerusalem
Hatshepsut
16. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Women
Matrilocal
Sumerians
Narmer or Menes
17. 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.
Ziggurat
Tutankhamen
Hatshepsut
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
18. 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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19. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Amenhotep III
River-Valley Civilizations
Arameic
20. 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.
Hebrews
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mythopoeic
City-states
21. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Cuneiform
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pharaoh
Animism
22. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Animism
8 -000 BC
Egyptian
Cuneiform
23. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Military
Iron
Civilization
Phoenicians
24. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Nebuchanezzar
Jerusalem
Set
Ten Commandments
25. 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
Mesopotamian
Shifting Cultivation
Hebrews
Water
26. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Civilization
Patriarchal
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
27. 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.
Tutankhamen
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Hyksos
Bronze Age
28. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Pyramids
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Indus Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamians
29. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Animism
Mesopotamians
Hebrews
Water
30. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
Ra
Neanderthals
Potter's Wheel
31. 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.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Arameic
Old Testament
Ma'at
32. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
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Phoenicians
Ma'at
Human
33. 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.
War
Hebrews
Middle Kingdom
Mesopotamians
34. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Potter's Wheel
Thebes
Phoenicians
Hebrews
35. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mesopotamian
Hieroglyphics
Ra
Old Kingdom
36. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Priests and Magicians
Animism
Military
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37. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Gilgamesh
Hieroglyphics
Subservient
Ten Commandments
38. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Tutankhamen
Aten
Indus Valley Civilizations
39. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tuthmosis III
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tutankhamen
River-Valley Civilizations
40. 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
Iron
Priests and Magicians
Yahweh or Jehovah
41. 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.
Nefertiti
Nile River
Cheops or Khufu
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
42. 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.
Subservient
Women
Pharaoh
Priests
43. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Hammurabi
Women
Hebrews
Sumerians
44. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Aten
Military
Ra
45. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Bronze Age
Potter's Wheel
Cheops or Khufu
46. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Priests
Water
Middle East
Animals
47. 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
Judah and Israel
New Kingdom
Set
Israelites
48. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Civilization
Thebes
Cheops or Khufu
Amenhotep III
49. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Priests
Divination
Semites
50. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Old Testament
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Neanderthals
Tuthmosis III