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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Divine Right
Subservient
Bronze Age
Old Testament
2. 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.
Sumerian
Hieroglyphics
6
City-states
3. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Narmer or Menes
Semites
Indus Valley Civilizations
Iron
4. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Priests
Flint
Cheops or Khufu
Bronze Age
5. 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
War
Mesopotamians
Redistributive
6. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Mesopotamian
Bronze Age
Art
Ma'at
7. 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.
Ancient Egyptians
Old Testament
Divination
Matrilocal
8. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
City-states
Set
Babylonian Empire
War
9. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Subservient
Human
Monotheism
Judah and Israel
10. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Water
Yahweh or Jehovah
Animals
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
11. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
City-states
Neanderthals
Israelites
Jericho
12. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Potter's Wheel
Hieroglyphics
Ancient Egyptians
13. 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
Subservient
Water
Nebuchanezzar
14. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Fertile Crescent
Thebes
New Kingdom
15. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Potter's Wheel
Mythopoeic
Subservient
Persians
16. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Potter's Wheel
Women
Nefertiti
17. 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.
Gilgamesh
City-states
Hyksos
River-Valley Civilizations
18. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
War
Tutankhamen
19. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Arameic
Redistributive
Priests
20. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Nile River
Art
Thebes
City-states
21. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Papyrus
Jerusalem
Copper
22. 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
Potter's Wheel
Papyrus
Iron
Hatshepsut
23. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Sargon I
Sumerian
Redistributive
Tutankhamen
24. 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.
Hyksos
Ziggurat
Kush
Bronze Age
25. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Judah and Israel
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Kush
Hittites
26. 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.
Narmer
Human
Iron
Pharaoh
27. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Matrilocal
Gilgamesh
Hieroglyphics
Old Testament
28. 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
New Kingdom
Cuneiform
Osiris
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
29. 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.
Divination
Egyptian
Cheops or Khufu
Ra
30. 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.
Mythopoeic
Cheops or Khufu
Sargon I
New Kingdom
31. 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.
Military
Mesopotamians
Phoenicians
Bronze Age
32. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Ziggurat
Obelisks
Narmer
33. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Copper
Aten
Cheops or Khufu
34. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Animism
Divination
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Yahweh or Jehovah
35. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Narmer or Menes
8 -000 BC
City-states
36. 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
Obelisks
Nefertiti
Mesopotamian
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
37. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Set
Amenhotep III
Mesopotamian
38. 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.
Neanderthals
Cheops or Khufu
Nefertiti
Pyramids
39. 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
Narmer
Semites
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
40. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Military
Art
8 -000 BC
Neanderthals
41. Name for the Hebrew god.
Sumerians
Sumerians
Priests and Magicians
Yahweh or Jehovah
42. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Ra
Kush
Pre-dynastic Period
43. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Judah and Israel
Mesopotamian
Indus Valley Civilizations
Obelisks
44. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Judah and Israel
Sumerian
Women
45. 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.
Arameic
Babylonian Empire
Pre-dynastic Period
Pastoralism
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.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Middle Kingdom
Potter's Wheel
47. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Nefertiti
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Animism
Ancient Egyptians
48. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Flint
Priests and Magicians
Judah and Israel
Animals
49. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
City-states
Cheops or Khufu
Mythopoeic
Ten Commandments
50. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Phoenicians
Ra
Natufian Complex
Women