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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. 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.
Sumerian
New Kingdom
War
Pre-dynastic Period
2. 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.
Hyksos
Jericho
Water
Women
3. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Flint
Mythopoeic
Animals
Thebes
4. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.
Israelites
Women
Amenhotep III
Mesopotamian
5. 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
Hatshepsut
Priests
Persians
Animism
6. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Patriarchal
Persians
Jerusalem
Mesopotamian
7. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Fertile Crescent
Arameic
Cuneiform
Pastoralism
8. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Ten Commandments
Cuneiform
Hyksos
Set
9. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Old Testament
Set
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Neanderthals
10. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Redistributive
Monotheism
Egyptian
Cheops or Khufu
11. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.
Patriarchal
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Priests
Old Kingdom
12. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.
Flint
Human
Nebuchanezzar
Thebes
13. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Redistributive
8 -000 BC
Ramesses II
Iron
14. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Sargon I
Egyptian
6
Pyramids
15. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Pastoralism
Babylonian Empire
Military
Egyptian
16. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Sumerians
Divine Right
Iron
Kush
17. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Hatshepsut
Papyrus
Monotheism
Fertile Crescent
18. 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.
Nebuchanezzar
Thebes
Israelites
Shifting Cultivation
19. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
War
Pyramids
Amenhotep III
20. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Art
Middle East
Gilgamesh
Aten
21. 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.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Gilgamesh
Nefertiti
Old Kingdom
22. 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
Sumerians
Ramesses II
Shifting Cultivation
Hyksos
23. 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
Mesopotamians
Middle Kingdom
Ptolemies
24. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Natufian Complex
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi
25. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.
Semites
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Flint
Sargon I
26. 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.
Sumerian
Ra
Osiris
Ten Commandments
27. 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
Copper
Kush
Old Kingdom
Persians
28. 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
Egyptian
Hebrews
Old Testament
Osiris
29. 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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30. 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
Persians
New Kingdom
Middle East
Iron
31. 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.
Priests and Magicians
Divination
Sumerians
Jerusalem
32. 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.
Copper
River-Valley Civilizations
6
Subservient
33. 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.
Sumerians
City-states
Aten
Military
34. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Middle East
Sumerian
Animism
35. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Civilization
Old Testament
Kush
Middle Kingdom
36. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Redistributive
Sargon I
Ptolemies
Divination
37. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Sumerians
Babylonian Empire
Divine Right
Ziggurat
38. 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.
New Kingdom
Pharaoh
Cuneiform
Israelites
39. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Thebes
Jerusalem
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
40. 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.
Ptolemies
Pastoralism
Sargon I
Copper
41. 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.
Subservient
Sumerians
Hammurabi
Sumerians
42. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
Pharaoh
Middle East
Thebes
Matrilocal
43. 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
Gilgamesh
Indus Valley Civilizations
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
44. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Sumerians
Nebuchanezzar
Nile River
Pyramids
45. 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
Water
Shifting Cultivation
Ra
Indus Valley Civilizations
46. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.
Subservient
Judah and Israel
Cuneiform
Water
47. 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.
Sumerians
8 -000 BC
Matrilocal
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
48. 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
Pharaoh
Hyksos
Hittites
Matrilocal
49. 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
Divination
Jericho
Ptolemies
50. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.
Ziggurat
Priests and Magicians
Priests
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
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