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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.






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






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






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






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






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






13. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






14. 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.






15. Ancient Egyptians used ___________ for writing on.






16. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






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

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






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






20. Beginning of the Neolithic Period or 'New Stone Age'. Saw the adaptation of sedentary agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals.






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






30. 'Soldiers of God'






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






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