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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Osiris
Semites
Judah and Israel
Mythopoeic
2. 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
6
Water
Ra
Indus Valley Civilizations
3. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.
River-Valley Civilizations
Animals
Mesopotamians
Thebes
4. 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.
Papyrus
Shifting Cultivation
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Old Testament
5. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.
Bronze Age
Ancient Egyptians
Set
Monotheism
6. 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
Tutankhamen
Jericho
Mesopotamians
7. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.
Yahweh or Jehovah
Kush
Middle East
Ten Commandments
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.
River-Valley Civilizations
Israelites
Indus Valley Civilizations
Mesopotamian
9. 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.
Redistributive
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hittites
Priests
10. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.
Neanderthals
Animism
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Cheops or Khufu
11. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch
Mesopotamians
Babylonian Empire
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Tutankhamen
12. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Mesopotamians
Copper
Priests and Magicians
Sumerians
13. 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
Divine Right
Hittites
Monotheism
Narmer or Menes
14. 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
Patriarchal
Middle Kingdom
Iron
15. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Israelites
Jericho
Fertile Crescent
Divination
16. 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
Pyramids
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Narmer or Menes
17. 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.
Water
Semites
Old Testament
Middle Kingdom
18. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Civilization
Bronze Age
Redistributive
19. 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
Hammurabi
Subservient
Jerusalem
20. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Mythopoeic
Middle Kingdom
Set
Middle East
21. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Tuthmosis III
Shifting Cultivation
Set
Nebuchanezzar
22. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.
Papyrus
Semites
Old Testament
Pastoralism
23. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.
Mythopoeic
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Copper
Art
24. 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.
Sumerians
Kush
Divination
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
25. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.
8 -000 BC
Tutankhamen
Yahweh or Jehovah
Set
26. 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.
Animism
Amenhotep III
Cheops or Khufu
Phoenicians
27. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Neanderthals
Hieroglyphics
Set
Pastoralism
28. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Hyksos
Narmer
Middle Kingdom
Sumerians
29. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Old Testament
Ziggurat
Redistributive
30. 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
Osiris
Hebrews
Tutankhamen
Ten Commandments
31. 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.
Pharaoh
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Jericho
Hebrews
32. 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
Jerusalem
Amenhotep III
New Kingdom
Hatshepsut
33. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Narmer or Menes
Middle Kingdom
Kush
Tutankhamen
34. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Divine Right
Nile River
Kush
Jerusalem
35. 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
Nefertiti
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
River-Valley Civilizations
Water
36. 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.
Ramesses II
Ptolemies
Egyptian
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
37. 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
Hammurabi
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Egyptian
38. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Sumerian
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
39. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Nebuchanezzar
Ten Commandments
Jerusalem
Narmer
40. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Subservient
Ramesses II
War
Babylonian Empire
41. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Narmer or Menes
War
Hebrews
Sumerian
42. 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
Israelites
Aten
Tuthmosis III
43. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.
War
Redistributive
Matrilocal
Bronze Age
44. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Human
Egyptian
Divination
Sumerian
45. 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
Ma'at
Matrilocal
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
46. 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
Potter's Wheel
Phoenicians
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
47. 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.
Tuthmosis III
Semites
Thebes
Nefertiti
48. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.
Thebes
Gilgamesh
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Jerusalem
49. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.
Pharaoh
Tutankhamen
Babylonian Empire
Nile River
50. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Jerusalem
Middle Kingdom
Old Kingdom
Pyramids
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