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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






2. Pre-agricultural culture located in present day Israel - Jordan and Lebanon. Collected naturally present barley and wheat to supplement game. Characterized by large settlements.






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






10. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. The smaller size of the pyramids during the 5th and 6th dynasties is reflective of the declining power of the Pharaoh and the rise in power of ____________ in an economy of increasing size.






17. 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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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






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

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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






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






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






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






41. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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