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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Monotheism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Gilgamesh
Ramesses II
2. The most important ruler in Babylonian history. Responsible for the codification of law. Ruled over public and private life; business - financial - and criminal law. Judgements were often harsh.
Narmer or Menes
Potter's Wheel
Hammurabi
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
3. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Divination
Narmer or Menes
Sumerian
Divine Right
4. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Aten
Copper
Hieroglyphics
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
5. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Sargon I
Yahweh or Jehovah
Osiris
Cuneiform
6. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Flint
Military
Divine Right
Cheops or Khufu
7. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Animals
Pre-dynastic Period
Phoenicians
8. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Pyramids
Jerusalem
Art
Hebrews
9. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Flint
Mesopotamian
Bronze Age
Monotheism
10. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Shifting Cultivation
Water
Old Testament
11. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Civilization
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Osiris
12. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Animism
Gilgamesh
Kush
13. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Narmer
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
War
Art
14. 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.
Cheops or Khufu
Animism
Shifting Cultivation
Hatshepsut
15. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Priests and Magicians
Set
Papyrus
Divine Right
16. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
War
Art
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Pharaoh
17. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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18. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Military
Animism
City-states
19. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Ziggurat
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Matrilocal
Narmer
20. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
8 -000 BC
Israelites
Hyksos
Bronze Age
21. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Civilization
22. 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
Osiris
Human
Pastoralism
23. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Amenhotep III
Civilization
Semites
24. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Hatshepsut
Semites
Flint
25. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Ancient Egyptians
New Kingdom
Papyrus
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26. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Israelites
Pastoralism
Ziggurat
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
27. 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.
Semites
Old Testament
Tutankhamen
Monotheism
28. 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
Hyksos
River-Valley Civilizations
Indus Valley Civilizations
29. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Military
Papyrus
Fertile Crescent
Divine Right
30. 'Soldiers of God'
Animism
Israelites
War
Divination
31. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Divination
Phoenicians
Nefertiti
32. 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.
Mesopotamians
Pharaoh
Subservient
Nefertiti
33. 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.
City-states
Persians
Phoenicians
Sumerian
34. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Ramesses II
Potter's Wheel
Tuthmosis III
35. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Animals
Human
Ten Commandments
Redistributive
36. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Sumerian
Civilization
Nile River
Gilgamesh
37. 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
Subservient
Indus Valley Civilizations
City-states
Old Kingdom
38. 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.
Mythopoeic
Pyramids
Hyksos
Ra
39. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Priests and Magicians
Mesopotamians
Kush
40. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Sumerians
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
Subservient
41. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Human
Monotheism
Babylonian Empire
Indus Valley Civilizations
42. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Sumerian
Art
Egyptian
Sargon I
43. The first civilizations - they created a basic set of tools - intellectual concepts such as writing and mathematics - and political forms that would persist and spread to other parts of Europe - Asia - and Africa. Most were in decline by 1000 BC.
Bronze Age
River-Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
Indus Valley Civilizations
44. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Middle Kingdom
Yahweh or Jehovah
Mesopotamians
Jericho
45. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Jerusalem
Middle East
Egyptian
46. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Obelisks
Middle East
Yahweh or Jehovah
47. 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
Women
Ptolemies
Cheops or Khufu
48. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Priests and Magicians
Mesopotamian
Ziggurat
49. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Ramesses II
Flint
Sumerian
Monotheism
50. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Hittites
Fertile Crescent
Hammurabi
Monotheism