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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






8. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






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

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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 'Soldiers of God'






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






27. 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






28. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






29. 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.






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






35. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Name for the Hebrew god.






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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







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