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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Hatshepsut
Pastoralism
Hieroglyphics
Sumerians
2. Name for the Hebrew god.
Neanderthals
Pharaoh
Yahweh or Jehovah
Animism
3. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Divine Right
Human
Pyramids
City-states
4. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Judah and Israel
Monotheism
New Kingdom
5. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Judah and Israel
Sumerians
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Aten
6. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Divine Right
Egyptian
Hieroglyphics
Matrilocal
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
New Kingdom
Fertile Crescent
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Amenhotep III
8. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Old Testament
Judah and Israel
Patriarchal
Nefertiti
9. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Matrilocal
Aten
Ra
10. 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
11. 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
New Kingdom
Phoenicians
Patriarchal
12. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Animism
Persians
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
13. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
City-states
Redistributive
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Flint
14. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Animals
Cheops or Khufu
Ramesses II
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
15. 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.
Egyptian
Jerusalem
Pre-dynastic Period
Middle Kingdom
16. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Obelisks
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Sumerians
Ten Commandments
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.
Mesopotamians
Redistributive
Ziggurat
8 -000 BC
18. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Bronze Age
Copper
Pre-dynastic Period
Civilization
19. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
6
Priests and Magicians
Ten Commandments
Mesopotamian
20. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Semites
Military
Jerusalem
Arameic
21. 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
Egyptian
Arameic
City-states
22. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Ptolemies
Hieroglyphics
Animals
23. 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.
Priests
Mesopotamians
Aten
Sumerian
24. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Pyramids
Copper
Ra
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25. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Kush
Thebes
Women
Fertile Crescent
26. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Judah and Israel
Osiris
27. 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.
Divination
Aten
Narmer or Menes
Monotheism
28. 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
Ziggurat
Iron
Israelites
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
29. 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.
Pharaoh
Nefertiti
Old Testament
River-Valley Civilizations
30. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
New Kingdom
Mesopotamians
Hittites
Old Kingdom
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.
Hatshepsut
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Nile River
Middle Kingdom
32. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
War
Cuneiform
Monotheism
Fertile Crescent
33. 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
Mesopotamian
Potter's Wheel
Thebes
34. 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
Ma'at
Hebrews
Hyksos
Bronze Age
35. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Ptolemies
Cheops or Khufu
Mesopotamian
Monotheism
36. 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.
Redistributive
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Divine Right
Gilgamesh
37. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Set
Hebrews
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Copper
38. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Egyptian
Neanderthals
Semites
39. 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.
Sumerians
Subservient
Middle Kingdom
Sumerian
40. 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.
Priests
Pastoralism
Yahweh or Jehovah
City-states
41. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Papyrus
Mesopotamian
Narmer
42. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Aten
Hieroglyphics
Gilgamesh
43. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Bronze Age
Nebuchanezzar
Hieroglyphics
Mythopoeic
44. 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.
Ramesses II
Narmer
Hyksos
Divination
45. 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
Tuthmosis III
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Hittites
Civilization
46. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Mesopotamian
Kush
Nebuchanezzar
Persians
47. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Pyramids
Subservient
Sumerians
Thebes
48. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Jericho
Arameic
Ptolemies
Cheops or Khufu
49. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Tutankhamen
Women
Yahweh or Jehovah
50. 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
8 -000 BC
Babylonian Empire
Sumerian