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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






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






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






4. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






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






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






7. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






17. 'Soldiers of God'






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






22. Name for the Hebrew god.






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






24. 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






25. Period of Ancient Egyptian history during which permanent settlements were established - stone and crafts work developed - burial practices moved to the outer edges of the territories - and the beginnings of a belief in the afterlife became evident.






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






30. Egyptian civilization sprang up in northern Africa - along the ______________; this river played a crucial role in the ability of the Egyptians to produce an abundant harvest.






31. Tapered pillars carved of a single piece of granite 70 - 100 feet tall symbolizing man's aspirations to immortality.






32. 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.






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






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

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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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






41. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. Egyptian Pharaoh of the New Kingdom - attempted to reduce the power of the priests by establishing a monotheistic religion dedicated to Aten - the sun-god - replacing the tradition Egyptian pantheon of gods. He established himself as the sole priest






46. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






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






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






49. 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






50. The smaller size of the pyramids during the 5th and 6th dynasties is reflective of the declining power of the Pharaoh and the rise in power of ____________ in an economy of increasing size.