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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Name for the Hebrew god.
War
Yahweh or Jehovah
Judah and Israel
Ptolemies
2. 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
Ptolemies
Israelites
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Hammurabi
3. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Potter's Wheel
Nefertiti
Tutankhamen
4. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Flint
Ancient Egyptians
Nebuchanezzar
8 -000 BC
5. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Ma'at
Priests
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Jericho
6. 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.
Middle East
Animals
Matrilocal
Ancient Egyptians
7. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Jericho
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Old Testament
Sumerian
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
Fertile Crescent
River-Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
Hebrews
9. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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10. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Egyptian
Fertile Crescent
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tuthmosis III
11. 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
Pastoralism
Indus Valley Civilizations
Pyramids
Egyptian
12. '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 Kingdom
Animism
Set
Cuneiform
13. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Aten
Copper
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Mesopotamians
14. 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.
Sumerians
Egyptian
Old Testament
Middle Kingdom
15. 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
Mesopotamian
Aten
Animals
16. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Priests and Magicians
Pharaoh
Ra
Mythopoeic
17. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Sumerian
Judah and Israel
Priests
18. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Nefertiti
Redistributive
Pyramids
Hyksos
19. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Middle East
Monotheism
Priests and Magicians
Ra
20. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Obelisks
Hieroglyphics
Sargon I
6
21. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Gilgamesh
Yahweh or Jehovah
Mesopotamians
Jerusalem
22. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Amenhotep III
Narmer or Menes
Art
23. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Nefertiti
Set
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Priests and Magicians
24. 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.
Hammurabi
Old Testament
Divination
Kush
25. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Old Testament
Women
Tuthmosis III
Natufian Complex
26. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Patriarchal
Papyrus
War
Semites
27. 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
Osiris
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Middle East
28. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Narmer or Menes
Women
Arameic
29. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Subservient
Flint
Judah and Israel
Divine Right
30. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Gilgamesh
Divine Right
Jericho
Middle East
31. 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
Human
Pastoralism
Amenhotep III
New Kingdom
32. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Iron
Animism
Narmer
Pharaoh
33. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Natufian Complex
Women
Judah and Israel
Osiris
34. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Civilization
Hittites
Shifting Cultivation
35. 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.
Human
Pyramids
Pharaoh
Military
36. 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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37. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Semites
Cuneiform
Yahweh or Jehovah
38. 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
Tuthmosis III
Sumerian
Divination
Aten
39. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Patriarchal
Arameic
Middle East
40. 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
Obelisks
Art
Phoenicians
41. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
War
Ziggurat
Obelisks
42. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Civilization
Ziggurat
43. 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.
New Kingdom
Tutankhamen
Redistributive
Sargon I
44. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Priests and Magicians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
8 -000 BC
Civilization
45. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
War
Set
Arameic
Iron
46. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
War
Kush
Set
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
47. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Nefertiti
Obelisks
Sumerians
Middle Kingdom
48. 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
8 -000 BC
Papyrus
Nefertiti
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
49. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Aten
Ramesses II
Hatshepsut
50. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Cuneiform
Water
Fertile Crescent
Military
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