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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






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






3. 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.






4. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






5. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. 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.






10. Passive - Stable - Predictable - and Conformist are adjectives that the describe the _____________ people and explain why their civilization was able to survive for an extraordinary 3 -000 years.






11. 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.






12. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






13. 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






14. Period from 4 -000 BC to 1 -500 BC (3rd Millenium) when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East.






15. Name for the Hebrew god.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. The end of the Bronze Age saw the rise of great __________ power.






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. Mesopotamian ____ was designed to persuade the good divine elements to side with practitioners.






32. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






33. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






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






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

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36. 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.






37. 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






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






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.






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






48. 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






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






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






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