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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






6. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






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






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






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. 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.






11. 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






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






13. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






14. 'Soldiers of God'






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






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






17. Name for the Hebrew god.






18. 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.






19. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






20. 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.






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






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






23. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






32. The most important ruler in Babylonian history. Responsible for the codification of law. Ruled over public and private life; business - financial - and criminal law. Judgements were often harsh.






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






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






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






36. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






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