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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






2. Name for the Hebrew god.






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






4. 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.






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






6. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






7. Cunning woman who became Pharaoh during the New Kingdom. She relied heavily on propoganda claimed to be the daughter of the God Amen - often presented herself with a male body and false beard in statues and imagery. Her stepson - whom she had usurped






8. Born a commoner - this Pharaoh rose to power at the age of 15 on the coat tails of his family's military prowess and reigned until his death at age 93. As one of Egypt's greatest kings - he relied heavily on propaganda and diplomacy - building temple






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






20. 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.






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






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






23. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






24. 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.






25. 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






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






28. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






35. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






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






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. 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






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