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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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.






2. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






3. 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






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






5. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






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






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






19. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






20. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






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

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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






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






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






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