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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Sumerian
Nefertiti
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
2. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Sumerian
Animism
Human
3. 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
Nile River
Priests and Magicians
Set
Tuthmosis III
4. Indo-European people who entered Mesopotamia in 1750 BC - destroying the Babylonian Empire; partnered with the Egyptians to destroy Syria - then turned on the Egyptians conquering them and ruling for several centuries; played a major role in transmit
Redistributive
City-states
Hittites
Bronze Age
5. 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.
Divination
Gilgamesh
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
6. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Persians
Hittites
Tutankhamen
Semites
7. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hieroglyphics
War
8 -000 BC
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.
Hittites
Hammurabi
Potter's Wheel
Old Kingdom
9. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Old Kingdom
Kush
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Middle East
10. 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.
Pharaoh
Sumerian
Ten Commandments
Arameic
11. The Greek leaders of Egypt after it was conquered by Alexander the Great. These leaders took on much of the Egyptian culture - even calling themselves Pharaoh.
Human
Ptolemies
Sumerians
Papyrus
12. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Hammurabi
Copper
Sumerians
Jericho
13. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Mythopoeic
Sargon I
Mesopotamian
Copper
14. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
Sumerians
Narmer or Menes
Hieroglyphics
Sargon I
15. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Animism
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Papyrus
War
16. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Thebes
Middle East
Pyramids
Aten
17. 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
Old Kingdom
Israelites
Subservient
Nebuchanezzar
18. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Ancient Egyptians
War
Priests
19. 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
Mesopotamian
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Hittites
Ma'at
20. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Hebrews
Pastoralism
Iron
Thebes
21. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Copper
Sumerians
Judah and Israel
Women
22. Name for the Hebrew god.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Yahweh or Jehovah
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Old Kingdom
23. 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.
Hittites
Phoenicians
Aten
Yahweh or Jehovah
24. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
War
Semites
Egyptian
Copper
25. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Kush
Monotheism
Middle Kingdom
Fertile Crescent
26. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Priests and Magicians
Sumerian
Middle East
Egyptian
27. 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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Neanderthals
Persians
Monotheism
28. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
8 -000 BC
Tuthmosis III
Mythopoeic
Nebuchanezzar
29. 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
Nebuchanezzar
Priests
Tutankhamen
30. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Aten
Israelites
Iron
Bronze Age
31. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Ramesses II
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Matrilocal
Ancient Egyptians
32. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Indus Valley Civilizations
Military
Nile River
Cuneiform
33. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Priests and Magicians
Pharaoh
Aten
34. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
Ptolemies
Animals
Persians
Flint
35. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Israelites
Obelisks
Military
36. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Neanderthals
Divination
Art
Sumerians
37. 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.
Judah and Israel
Sumerian
Ziggurat
Human
38. 'Soldiers of God'
Mythopoeic
Matrilocal
Thebes
Israelites
39. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
New Kingdom
Semites
Flint
Hyksos
40. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Water
Mesopotamian
Middle East
Pyramids
41. 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
Kush
Sumerians
Babylonian Empire
42. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Mythopoeic
Nebuchanezzar
6
Israelites
43. 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.
Sumerians
Hammurabi
Hyksos
Israelites
44. 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
Aten
Hebrews
Pharaoh
45. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Hyksos
Hatshepsut
Human
Mesopotamians
46. 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
Phoenicians
Jericho
Narmer
47. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Persians
Hebrews
Semites
48. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Thebes
River-Valley Civilizations
Tutankhamen
Mesopotamian
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.
City-states
War
Mesopotamians
Matrilocal
50. 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.
Tutankhamen
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Pyramids
Animism