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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






8. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






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

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10. 'wedge-shaped.' A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets.






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






12. Egyptian civilization sprang up in northern Africa - along the ______________; this river played a crucial role in the ability of the Egyptians to produce an abundant harvest.






13. Recent archeological studies show that there were at least _____ early civilizations.






14. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. Unified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 BC - collapsed due to foreign invasian.






19. 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.






20. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






21. 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.






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. 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.






26. Early societies were ____________ - or run by men.






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






28. 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.






29. 'Soldiers of God'






30. Achievements of the ___________ civilization include the construction of irrigation ditches - introduction of the plow - and wheel made pottery.






31. Name for the Hebrew god.






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. As the most influential of the smaller Middle Eastern regional cultures - the Jews were characterized most by ______________.






37. The first tools were made of ___________ approximately 2.5 Million years ago.






38. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.






39. Founded by Cyrus the Great who expanded the empire across vast lands using a system of local administrators to maintain control.






40. 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.






41. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






42. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.






43. 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.






44. Ancient view of the world based on myth rather than science or rationality.






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.






50. 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.