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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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.






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






3. Period of Ancient Egyptian history during which the Pharaohs regained powers over the priests but with somewhat less authority during which laws began to be written down.






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






5. 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.






6. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






7. 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.






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






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






10. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






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






12. 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






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






16. 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.






17. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. Between 3000 and 1500 BC - the civilization flourished over the region that extended hundreds of miles from the Himalaya Mountains to the coast of the Arabian Sea. At the heart of the civilization were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Both cities had popula






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






45. 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.






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






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

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48. 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.






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






50. 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