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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






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






5. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






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






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






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






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






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






11. During this young Pharaoh's reign - the priests and military leaders who has lost power during the reign of his predecessor - Akenhaten - seized the opportunity to use the boy as their puppet and return Egypt to its traditional religion.






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






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






14. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






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






17. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






18. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






19. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






20. 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.






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. 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.






25. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






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






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






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






29. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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

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






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






36. Brother to the Ancient Egyptian god - Osiris - and credited with his death - _______ stands for all things unpleasant - disorder and warfare.






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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.






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. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.