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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East
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1. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Babylonian Empire
Nile River
Mesopotamian
2. 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
Sumerians
Aten
Kush
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.
Nebuchanezzar
Arameic
Hyksos
Natufian Complex
4. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.
Copper
Amenhotep III
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Mesopotamians
5. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.
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6. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.
City-states
Narmer or Menes
Phoenicians
Aten
7. 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.
Water
Pharaoh
Hammurabi
River-Valley Civilizations
8. 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
Shifting Cultivation
Jericho
Nile River
Hebrews
9. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.
Pastoralism
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Egyptian
Persians
10. 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.
Ma'at
Phoenicians
Monotheism
Subservient
11. 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.
Priests
Ptolemies
Hyksos
Hatshepsut
12. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.
Mythopoeic
Babylonian Empire
Fertile Crescent
Civilization
13. 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
Jerusalem
Pharaoh
Old Kingdom
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
14. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.
Ziggurat
Ma'at
Divine Right
Arameic
15. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.
Old Kingdom
Priests
Cheops or Khufu
Pastoralism
16. 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
Hatshepsut
City-states
Hittites
Tuthmosis III
17. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.
Ancient Egyptians
Arameic
Cuneiform
Water
18. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.
Jericho
Pharaoh
Divine Right
Amenhotep III
19. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.
Phoenicians
Subservient
Tigris - Euphrates - and Nile
Pastoralism
20. 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
Redistributive
Patriarchal
Pre-dynastic Period
21. 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.
Subservient
City-states
Shifting Cultivation
Flint
22. 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.
Kush
Women
Ptolemies
Flint
23. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.
Ra
River-Valley Civilizations
Narmer or Menes
Set
24. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
Hieroglyphics
Iron
Sumerians
25. 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
Indus Valley Civilizations
Phoenicians
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
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26. 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
Aten
Redistributive
Akhenaton or Ahmenhotep IV
Flint
27. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.
Israelites
Human
Ten Commandments
Mythopoeic
28. 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.
Aten
City-states
River-Valley Civilizations
Nebuchanezzar
29. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.
Kush
Babylonian Empire
Divination
Persians
30. 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.
Old Testament
Mesopotamians
Aten
Tutankhamen
31. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.
Flint
Natufian Complex
Kush
Animism
32. 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.
Semites
Narmer
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age
33. 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.
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Babylonian Empire
Ziggurat
War
34. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Pastoralism
Egyptian
Hieroglyphics
Thebes
35. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.
Copper
Military
Thebes
Divination
36. 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.
City-states
Ma'at
Women
Pharaoh
37. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.
Egyptian
Animals
Cheops or Khufu
Hieroglyphics
38. 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.
Human
Middle Kingdom
Sargon I
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39. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.
Animals
Iron
Pyramids
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
40. 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.
Gilgamesh
Arameic
Pyramids
Mesopotamian
41. 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.
Egyptian
Pre-dynastic Period
Nefertiti
Iron
42. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
Animals
Tigris-Euphrates Civilization
Sumerian
43. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.
Subservient
Sargon I
Neanderthals
Judah and Israel
44. 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
Military
Egyptian
Monotheism
Old Kingdom
45. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.
Pyramids
Middle East
Patriarchal
Nebuchanezzar
46. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.
Nile River
Monotheism
Hieroglyphics
Civilization
47. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.
Judah and Israel
Hebrews
Indus Valley Civilizations
Egyptian
48. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.
Aten
Military
Kush
Pastoralism
49. Major contributor to the spread of culture.
Mesopotamian
War
Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution
City-states
50. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.
Nebuchanezzar
Judah and Israel
Ptolemies
Sumerians