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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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






2. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






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






4. 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






5. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






6. 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.






7. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






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






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






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






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

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






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






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






24. 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.






25. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






32. 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.






33. 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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






49. 'Soldiers of God'






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