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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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. 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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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.






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






25. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






26. 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.






27. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






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






29. 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.






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






31. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. The practice of seeking to foretell future events by interpreting divine signs - which could appear in various forms - such as in entrails of animals - in patterns in smoke - or in dreams.






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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.