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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






6. Name for the Hebrew god.






7. 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.






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






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






10. Following the defeat of the foreign Hyksos rulers - this period was the most prosperous time of Ancient Egyptian history. It saw the expansion of the Egyptian Empire to Nubia in the south as well as to the near east through warfare gaining riches and






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






12. 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






13. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






14. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.






15. 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.






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






17. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






18. 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.






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






20. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






21. 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.






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. The Egyptian concept of harmony and order - justice and truth. Implied a divine force for harmony and stability which emanated from the beginning of time itself. Good rule by pharaoh signified its presence

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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






34. 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.






35. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






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






37. 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.






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

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






40. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. The first economic class not responsible for producing their own food and shelter.






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






48. In contrast to the isolated Egyptians - these people were warriors and traders - they were highly unpredictable and abstract thinkers.






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






50. 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.