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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Divination
Nefertiti
Mythopoeic
Matrilocal
2. 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
Osiris
Tuthmosis III
Jerusalem
Middle Kingdom
3. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Hyksos
Obelisks
Patriarchal
4. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Tuthmosis III
Thebes
River-Valley Civilizations
Natufian Complex
5. 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.
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Tuthmosis III
Subservient
Tutankhamen
6. 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.
Babylonian Empire
Ra
Gilgamesh
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
7. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Animals
Ptolemies
Semites
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
8. 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.
Hammurabi
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Shifting Cultivation
Judah and Israel
9. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
6
Babylonian Empire
Civilization
Nefertiti
10. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Women
Jerusalem
Sumerian
Shifting Cultivation
11. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
City-states
Ma'at
Subservient
Military
12. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Phoenicians
Jerusalem
8 -000 BC
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
13. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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14. 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.
Neanderthals
River-Valley Civilizations
Monotheism
Ancient Egyptians
15. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Babylonian Empire
Judah and Israel
Subservient
16. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Hebrews
Cuneiform
Women
Cheops or Khufu
17. 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
Patriarchal
Set
Cuneiform
Ramesses II
18. 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.
Flint
Natufian Complex
Papyrus
Nile River
19. 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
Pastoralism
Hebrews
Copper
Judah and Israel
20. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ramesses II
Ten Commandments
Military
Copper
21. 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
Amenhotep III
Hebrews
Narmer or Menes
Aten
22. 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
Iron
Animism
Pre-dynastic Period
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
23. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Ra
Ramesses II
Military
Gilgamesh
24. 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.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pharaoh
Babylonian Empire
War
25. 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
Ten Commandments
Old Kingdom
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Copper
26. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Hittites
Babylonian Empire
Israelites
Fertile Crescent
27. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Women
Monotheism
Jericho
Papyrus
28. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Sumerians
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Mythopoeic
Sargon I
29. 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
Monotheism
Hittites
Old Testament
30. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Papyrus
Yahweh or Jehovah
Divine Right
Phoenicians
31. 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.
Hammurabi
Sargon I
Osiris
Ma'at
32. 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
City-states
Babylonian Empire
Hatshepsut
War
33. 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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34. 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.
Pre-dynastic Period
Patriarchal
Divine Right
Amenhotep III
35. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Ra
Old Testament
Subservient
Cheops or Khufu
36. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
Old Testament
Kush
8 -000 BC
Persians
37. 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.
Hebrews
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Ramesses II
Mythopoeic
38. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Semites
Nefertiti
Divination
39. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hittites
Hieroglyphics
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Divine Right
40. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Hammurabi
Sumerians
Obelisks
Narmer or Menes
41. 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.
Ziggurat
Papyrus
Mesopotamian
City-states
42. 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
Tutankhamen
Tuthmosis III
Subservient
Osiris
43. 'Soldiers of God'
Hieroglyphics
Ancient Egyptians
Israelites
Patriarchal
44. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Neanderthals
Middle Kingdom
Papyrus
Ra
45. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Patriarchal
Nile River
Bronze Age
Middle East
46. 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.
Tutankhamen
Gilgamesh
Nile River
Sumerian
47. 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.
Obelisks
Arameic
Hyksos
Flint
48. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Sumerians
Narmer or Menes
Bronze Age
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
49. 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.
Set
City-states
Human
Hebrews
50. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Semites
Iron
Ten Commandments
River-Valley Civilizations
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