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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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
Pharaoh
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Human
2. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Jerusalem
Neanderthals
Nefertiti
Nebuchanezzar
3. 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.
Iron
Tuthmosis III
Arameic
Priests
4. 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
Osiris
Priests
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Patriarchal
5. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Narmer
Israelites
Thebes
6. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.
Semites
Persians
Priests and Magicians
Indus Valley Civilizations
7. 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
Priests and Magicians
Hittites
Narmer or Menes
Gilgamesh
8. 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
Tuthmosis III
Aten
Sumerian
Osiris
9. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Hatshepsut
Israelites
Nile River
10. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Sargon I
Ziggurat
Pastoralism
11. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.
Osiris
Civilization
Sargon I
Indus Valley Civilizations
12. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Jericho
Old Testament
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
13. 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.
Jerusalem
Animals
Hyksos
Sargon I
14. 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.
Pyramids
Phoenicians
Natufian Complex
Hittites
15. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Semites
Jerusalem
Jericho
Military
16. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Divine Right
Sumerians
Arameic
Animism
17. 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.
Jericho
Aten
New Kingdom
Ra
18. 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
Tutankhamen
Hittites
Divination
Hatshepsut
19. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Phoenicians
Kush
Hebrews
Thebes
20. 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
Flint
Neanderthals
21. 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.
Cuneiform
City-states
Mesopotamian
Pharaoh
22. 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.
Old Testament
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Middle Kingdom
Old Kingdom
23. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Art
Amenhotep III
Old Kingdom
24. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.
Neanderthals
Mythopoeic
Tuthmosis III
Babylonian Empire
25. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Potter's Wheel
Monotheism
Sumerian
City-states
26. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Cuneiform
Middle East
Ra
Monotheism
27. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Fertile Crescent
Kush
Aten
Sargon I
28. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Matrilocal
Pyramids
Priests
29. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Women
Yahweh or Jehovah
Hieroglyphics
Osiris
30. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Women
Ancient Egyptians
Aten
Water
31. 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
Hebrews
Aten
Divine Right
Hittites
32. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.
Patriarchal
Copper
Hatshepsut
Divination
33. 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
Divination
Pastoralism
Neanderthals
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
Papyrus
Persians
Potter's Wheel
35. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Osiris
Human
Hebrews
Art
36. 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
Monotheism
Old Kingdom
Human
Amenhotep III
37. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
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Copper
Ziggurat
Cheops or Khufu
38. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.
Arameic
Pyramids
Fertile Crescent
Papyrus
39. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Sumerians
Osiris
40. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Hieroglyphics
Ra
Gilgamesh
Jerusalem
41. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Military
Ziggurat
Priests
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
42. 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.
New Kingdom
River-Valley Civilizations
Narmer
Aten
43. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Water
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Flint
Jericho
44. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Ptolemies
Gilgamesh
Flint
Pastoralism
45. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Monotheism
Copper
Cuneiform
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
46. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Copper
Middle East
Priests and Magicians
47. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Narmer or Menes
Persians
Matrilocal
Hittites
48. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Hieroglyphics
Obelisks
New Kingdom
Neanderthals
49. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Sumerians
Israelites
Hittites
Judah and Israel
50. 'Soldiers of God'
Ziggurat
Hittites
Bronze Age
Israelites