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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






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






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

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10. 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






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






12. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






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






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






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






16. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






17. Stepson of Hatshepsut - he lead the military expeditions during her reign. When he became Pharaoh - he enlisted thousands of men to help him capture more land than any other Pharaoh before him. At the time - he ruled the largest empire ever ruled by






18. 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






19. 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






20. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






21. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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






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. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






41. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






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






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






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






45. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






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






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






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






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






50. 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.