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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Flint
Persians
Fertile Crescent
Nebuchanezzar
2. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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3. 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
Thebes
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Gilgamesh
Animism
4. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Matrilocal
Set
Ancient Egyptians
Patriarchal
5. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Sumerians
Pyramids
Hittites
Military
6. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Sumerians
Egyptian
Narmer
Neanderthals
7. 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.
Hatshepsut
Pharaoh
New Kingdom
Tutankhamen
8. 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
Hebrews
Ziggurat
Natufian Complex
Ra
9. 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.
Egyptian
Ancient Egyptians
Thebes
Ra
10. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
New Kingdom
Divine Right
Middle Kingdom
Pyramids
11. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Thebes
Copper
Subservient
12. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Old Kingdom
Sumerians
Nefertiti
13. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Mythopoeic
Kush
River-Valley Civilizations
Ptolemies
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.
Cheops or Khufu
Animals
Israelites
Pre-dynastic Period
15. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Hyksos
Priests and Magicians
Bronze Age
Fertile Crescent
16. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Tuthmosis III
Priests
Iron
Persians
17. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
City-states
Priests and Magicians
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ziggurat
18. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Persians
Sumerian
Narmer
Hyksos
19. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Civilization
Aten
Thebes
Art
20. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Nebuchanezzar
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Monotheism
Sumerians
21. 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.
Copper
War
Aten
River-Valley Civilizations
22. 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.
Set
Priests and Magicians
Art
Sumerians
23. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Thebes
Sumerians
Divination
Judah and Israel
24. 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.
Jerusalem
Human
City-states
Copper
25. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Set
Pharaoh
8 -000 BC
Cuneiform
26. 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.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Thebes
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Shifting Cultivation
27. 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.
Thebes
Ten Commandments
Ra
Jerusalem
28. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Ra
Sumerians
Babylonian Empire
Narmer or Menes
29. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Amenhotep III
Ziggurat
Mesopotamians
Hammurabi
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.
Nebuchanezzar
Narmer
8 -000 BC
Divination
31. 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
Nefertiti
Hittites
Military
Indus Valley Civilizations
32. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Babylonian Empire
Bronze Age
Semites
Redistributive
33. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Divination
Subservient
34. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Thebes
Sargon I
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
35. 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
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Neanderthals
Set
Osiris
36. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Priests and Magicians
Iron
Civilization
Pastoralism
37. Born a commoner - this Pharaoh rose to power at the age of 15 on the coat tails of his family's military prowess and reigned until his death at age 93. As one of Egypt's greatest kings - he relied heavily on propaganda and diplomacy - building temple
Ramesses II
Military
Priests
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
38. 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
Pastoralism
Indus Valley Civilizations
Tutankhamen
39. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Mythopoeic
Bronze Age
Middle East
Old Testament
40. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Sumerians
Sargon I
Israelites
Nebuchanezzar
41. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Hebrews
Ptolemies
Sumerian
6
42. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Egyptian
Cheops or Khufu
Redistributive
Jericho
43. 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
Monotheism
City-states
Sumerians
Tuthmosis III
44. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Persians
Narmer
Priests and Magicians
45. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Fertile Crescent
Pyramids
Phoenicians
46. 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
Old Kingdom
Set
Ancient Egyptians
Jerusalem
47. 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.
8 -000 BC
Jerusalem
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hittites
48. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Women
Patriarchal
Shifting Cultivation
Fertile Crescent
49. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Nefertiti
War
Nebuchanezzar
Mesopotamian
50. 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
Women
Narmer
Divine Right
New Kingdom