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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 'Soldiers of God'






2. 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.






3. A combination of pictograms and phonograms that the Eqyptians used for writing.






4. 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






5. 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






6. The early degree of organization of communities in the Fertile Crescent and primarily in Egypt can be attributed to the need for ________.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. Cradle of Civilization located in the area between Mesopotamia and Syria.






10. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






11. A cultural practice in which young men upon marriage must live with their bride's family.






12. 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.






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






14. Early Sumerian kingdoms began as theocracies - their kings established their authority through ____________.






15. 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.






16. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.






17. Early walled urban culture site based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israeli-occupied West Bank near Jordan River.






18. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






19. Name for the Hebrew god.






20. 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.






21. 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






22. 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






23. The New Babylonian king who destroyed the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and enslaved the Jews.






24. Prior to the Bronze Age - during the 4th Millenium - crafters smelted tools from ___________.






25. From the Latin term for 'city.' Characterized by formal states - writing - cities - and monuments.






26. Following the Bronze Age - in the 2nd Millenium - crafters began to smelt tools from _______.






27. A technological advance invented c. 6000 BC encourage higher quality ceramic pottery production.

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28. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.






29. ___________ sacrifice was common among all religions during the late neolithic period.






30. Ancient Sumerian economies were ___________ with Priests charged with caring for the gods and goddesses and then providing for the community.






31. 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.






32. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






33. The life of the _____________ was filled with anxiety and pessimism because the gods themselves were unstable and the idea of an afterlife was unknown






34. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.






35. Unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with the capital at Memphis around 3000 BC.






36. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






37. The African state that developed along the upper reached of the Nile circa 1000 BC; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.






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.






39. 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.






40. Dating to 3500 BC - this civilization is one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch






41. 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.






42. First to develop money - weights and measures - and hours.






43. A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.






44. The moral code divined to Moses by the Hebrew god. Unlike the Code of Hammurabi - rich and poor were treated equally.






45. 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.






46. The Great Pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh ________.






47. City built by the Israelite King David in order to honor God.






48. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.






49. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






50. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.