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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. Name for the Hebrew god.






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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






17. _____________religion inspired confidence and optimism in the external order and stability of the world.






18. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 'Soldiers of God'






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. The two Hebrew kingdoms of Canaan.






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






30. 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






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






43. 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






44. 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.






45. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.