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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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

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14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






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






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






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






32. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






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






34. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






39. Born a commoner - this Pharaoh rose to power at the age of 15 on the coat tails of his family's military prowess and reigned until his death at age 93. As one of Egypt's greatest kings - he relied heavily on propaganda and diplomacy - building temple






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






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






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






49. 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.






50. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.







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