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CLEP Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East

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






2. Major contributor to the spread of culture.






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. Name for the Hebrew god.






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. The Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the _____________.






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






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

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






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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. 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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41. 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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 'Soldiers of God'






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.