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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Mythopoeic
Egyptian
Sargon I
Thebes
2. 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.
Ziggurat
Nebuchanezzar
Persians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
3. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Kush
Babylonian Empire
Copper
Papyrus
4. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Old Kingdom
New Kingdom
Tuthmosis III
5. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
New Kingdom
Pastoralism
Hittites
Jericho
6. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Water
Persians
Civilization
Art
7. 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
Redistributive
Egyptian
Tutankhamen
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
8. 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.
Mesopotamian
River-Valley Civilizations
Middle East
Cheops or Khufu
9. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Mesopotamians
Priests
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Pastoralism
10. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Middle East
Sumerians
8 -000 BC
River-Valley Civilizations
11. 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.
Flint
Divination
Babylonian Empire
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
12. 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
Divination
Hammurabi
Sumerians
13. 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.
Art
Gilgamesh
Obelisks
Ziggurat
14. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
War
Potter's Wheel
Monotheism
Iron
15. 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.
Sumerians
Persians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Ziggurat
16. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Sargon I
City-states
Pre-dynastic Period
Papyrus
17. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Patriarchal
Military
Hyksos
Ramesses II
18. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Jericho
Neanderthals
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
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19. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.
Narmer
Civilization
Ramesses II
Iron
20. This successfully diplomatic Pharaoh of the New Kingdom avoided continued warfare - commissioned the construction of two huge temples in Nubia that were unusually dedicated to the gods of ancient Egypt - Chiefly Amen-Re - rather than to the Pharaoh a
Old Kingdom
Amenhotep III
City-states
Sargon I
21. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Thebes
Sumerian
Middle East
Persians
22. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.
Pharaoh
Obelisks
Ptolemies
Osiris
23. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Old Testament
Mesopotamians
Babylonian Empire
Middle Kingdom
24. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
8 -000 BC
Iron
Nile River
Babylonian Empire
25. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Old Kingdom
Fertile Crescent
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Old Testament
26. 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
6
Narmer
Middle Kingdom
27. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Animals
Osiris
Semites
28. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Tutankhamen
Natufian Complex
29. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Mythopoeic
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Water
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
30. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Narmer
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Shifting Cultivation
31. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Nile River
Pre-dynastic Period
Animism
32. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Aten
Thebes
Monotheism
Amenhotep III
33. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Obelisks
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Bronze Age
34. 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.
Tutankhamen
Copper
Fertile Crescent
Old Testament
35. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
River-Valley Civilizations
Osiris
War
36. 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
Ra
Divination
Tuthmosis III
Indus Valley Civilizations
37. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Semites
Divine Right
Pre-dynastic Period
City-states
38. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Redistributive
Ancient Egyptians
Set
Pre-dynastic Period
39. 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.
Subservient
Priests
Copper
Matrilocal
40. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Flint
Human
Mythopoeic
41. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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42. 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.
Nile River
Pastoralism
Priests
Middle Kingdom
43. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Egyptian
Subservient
Mesopotamians
44. 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
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Nebuchanezzar
Ancient Egyptians
45. 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.
Israelites
Human
New Kingdom
Aten
46. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Old Kingdom
Cuneiform
Priests
Amenhotep III
47. 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
Kush
Divination
Nefertiti
Hebrews
48. 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.
Narmer or Menes
Tutankhamen
Animism
Pre-dynastic Period
49. 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.
Egyptian
Narmer or Menes
Sumerians
Set
50. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Judah and Israel
Neanderthals
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
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