Short Answer
Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
1
The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is called
.
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2
The
was a technological innovation that encouraged faster and better-quality ceramic pottery production.
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3
The
migrated into Mesopotamia ca. 4000 B.C.E. and created the first civilization in the region.
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4
The method of writing practiced in Mesopotamia was called
.
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5
were the form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilizations.
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6
The first literary epic in western civilization was the
.
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7
were massive towers associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes.
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8
A religion that sees gods in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature is called
.
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9
The ruler who created an Akkadian empire in Mesopotamia ca. 2400 B.C.E. was
.
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10
The first empire to unify all of Mesopotamia ca. 1800 B.C.E. was the
empire.
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11
The Babylonian ruler responsible for the codification of laws in Mesopotamia was
.
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12
The first pharaoh of Egypt was
.
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13
The Egyptian pharaoh of the New Kingdom who attempted to establish a one-god religion was
.
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14
were monumental architectural forms associated with Egyptian funerary rituals.
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15
, the practice of preserving the bodies of the dead, reflected the Egyptian interest in extending the afterlife.
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16
The Egyptians used a
alphabet based on pictograms.
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17
Agricultural civilizations were characteristically
; that is, they were run by men and based on the assumption that men naturally directed political, economic, and cultural life.
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18
The first African state other than Egypt was the kingdom of
.
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19
The Hebrews were a
people, a population group that also included Arabs.
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20
The Jews introduced the concept of
, the exclusive worship of a single god, into western civilization.
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21
The
civilization emerged on the island of Crete ca. 1600 B.C.E.
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22
The kingdom of
was the first civilization to emerge on the Greek mainland.
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23
The
were a seafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean.
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The Indo-European people who disrupted the Babylonian empire until they were swept away ca. 1200 B.C.E. were the
.
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