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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






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






3. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






4. 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.






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






6. 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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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






22. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






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






24. 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.






25. Ancient Sumerian king - ruled 2700 BC. Credited with having been a demigod of superhuman strength who built a great city wall to defend his people from external threats. Influence of his epic stories are seen in the Hebrew story of the Great Flood.






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






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

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35. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.






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






37. The Greek leaders of Egypt after it was conquered by Alexander the Great. These leaders took on much of the Egyptian culture - even calling themselves Pharaoh.






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. 'Soldiers of God'






47. 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






48. Tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs.






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






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