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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Animism
Persians
Pastoralism
Natufian Complex
2. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Mythopoeic
Art
Sargon I
Nefertiti
3. 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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4. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Phoenicians
Judah and Israel
Papyrus
5. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Israelites
Hyksos
Pastoralism
Ancient Egyptians
6. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Osiris
Sumerian
Middle Kingdom
Hittites
7. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Bronze Age
Sargon I
Art
Civilization
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
Babylonian Empire
Art
Amenhotep III
Hieroglyphics
9. 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
Arameic
Tuthmosis III
Monotheism
Hebrews
10. 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
Animism
Sumerian
Hieroglyphics
Tuthmosis III
11. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Nebuchanezzar
Ra
Divination
12. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Pastoralism
Indus Valley Civilizations
8 -000 BC
Middle Kingdom
13. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Hittites
Mythopoeic
Tutankhamen
Redistributive
14. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Aten
Narmer or Menes
Pyramids
Narmer
15. 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
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Tuthmosis III
Women
Old Kingdom
16. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Matrilocal
Sumerians
Water
Cuneiform
17. Name for the Hebrew god.
Hatshepsut
Civilization
Nefertiti
Yahweh or Jehovah
18. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
8 -000 BC
Kush
River-Valley Civilizations
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
19. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
City-states
Old Kingdom
Mesopotamian
Pharaoh
20. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Judah and Israel
Gilgamesh
Matrilocal
21. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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22. 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
Middle Kingdom
Hittites
Hatshepsut
23. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Jericho
Set
Aten
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
24. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Animals
War
Nile River
25. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Divination
Middle East
Jericho
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26. 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.
Ptolemies
Mesopotamian
Nebuchanezzar
Patriarchal
27. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Ziggurat
Mesopotamian
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Animism
28. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Flint
Hatshepsut
Cheops or Khufu
Ancient Egyptians
29. 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
Set
Indus Valley Civilizations
Jericho
Hieroglyphics
30. 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.
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Divination
Art
31. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Ancient Egyptians
Mesopotamian
Pre-dynastic Period
War
32. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Water
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Pharaoh
Narmer or Menes
33. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Ramesses II
Cuneiform
Matrilocal
New Kingdom
34. 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.
Patriarchal
Egyptian
Old Testament
Hyksos
35. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Middle East
Mesopotamians
8 -000 BC
Cuneiform
36. 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
Judah and Israel
Tutankhamen
Hittites
37. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Pre-dynastic Period
Divination
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Sargon I
38. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Copper
Hyksos
Shifting Cultivation
Women
39. 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.
Neanderthals
Ancient Egyptians
Hyksos
City-states
40. 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
Jericho
Phoenicians
Pre-dynastic Period
41. 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
Middle Kingdom
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Gilgamesh
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
42. 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
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Sumerian
Middle East
43. 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
Bronze Age
Ramesses II
Matrilocal
44. 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
Sumerian
Aten
Tuthmosis III
Hatshepsut
45. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
War
Obelisks
Old Kingdom
Flint
46. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Art
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Middle Kingdom
Natufian Complex
47. 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
Jerusalem
Persians
Hittites
Israelites
48. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
New Kingdom
8 -000 BC
Israelites
Human
49. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Papyrus
Iron
Sumerian
Tutankhamen
50. 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.
New Kingdom
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Mesopotamian
Ancient Egyptians