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Egypts
________ material and human resources were transformed and focused due to building and equipping the pyramids.
Yahweh
________ was understood to not be just one god among many but the one universal God, creator, and ruler of the universe.
Peresians
________ allowed people of Judah to return to their homeland and rebuild their temple.
Hammurabi
________ expanded his state through arms and diplomacy.
Urban life
________ redefined the role and status of women who had had roughly the same roles and status as men in the Neolithic period.
Mesopotamians
________ believed that the role of mortals was to serve the gods and feed them through sacrifice.
Law Code
The ________ held veterinarians, architects, physicians, and boat builders to the standards of professional behavior.
Israel
________ was a loosely organized confederation of tribes during its first centuries.
Tablets
________ were later used to preserve contracts, maintain administrative records, and record significant events, prayers, myths, and proverbs.
greater centralization
Writing allowed for those who mastered it to achieve ________ and control of the government.
Trade networks
________ were extended into Syria, the Arabian Peninsula, and India for metal and stone.
Religion
________ was the heart of royal power and the the only limiting force.
Akenaten
________ temporarily transformed the aesthetic of Egyptian court life while trying to reestablish royal divinity.
Isaelites
________ replaced temple worship with study of the Toray during their exile.
Population growth
________ put pressure on the local food supply.
Persians
________ normally protected local customs, religion, and society.
role of bureaucracy
The ________ was ato administer estates, channel revenues and labor towards vast public works projects, and administer estates.
Pictograms
________ developed into a true system of writing.
agricultural prices
Dowries, contracts, ________, wages commercy, money lending, and professional standards for physicians and architects.
Zoroastriansim
________ was a powerful element in Persian civilization.
Indo European Persians
________ and the Medes settled in Iranian plateau late in the second millennium.
Sedentarization
________ and the agricultural revolution were fundamental changes in human culture.
Babylonians
________ modeled their imperial system on that of their predecessors (Assyrians)
Amenhotep IV
________ was the most controversial ruler of the New Kingdom.
Persian conquers
________ were a lasting power in the Fertile Crescent.
Tiglath pilser
________ and successors transformed structure of Assyrian state and expanded its empire.
Ancient Egyptian history
________ is divided into 31 dynasties, regrouped in turn into 4 periods of political centralization.
Paleolithic people
________ developed speech, religion, and artistic expression.
political frontiers
Expanded ________ meant increased trade and interaction with the rest of the ancient world.
Egyptian women
________ owned property, entered legal contracts, conducted their own business, and brought lawsuits.
Hebrew history
________ recorded Msopotamian traditions as the stories of the flood, legal traditions strongly reminiscent of those of Hammurabi, and the worship of gods in high places.
Common Era
Civilization first appeared approximately 3500 years before the ________.
Urban immigration
________ increased the power, wealth, and status of two groups.
Divine kingship
________ was the cornerstone of Egyptian life.
Expansion of food supply
________ allowed for development of sedentary communities.
Hyksos
________ adopted the traditions of Egyptian kingship and continued the tradition of divine rule.
Mesopotamia
Writing served to increase the strength of the king in ________.
Assyrian plain north of Babyloniah ad
________ been the site of a small Mesopotamian state threatened by semi- nomads and great powers like the Babyylonains and later the Hittites.
Indo European people
A(n) ________, speaking a language that was a part of linguistic family that included most modern European languages.
Mesopotamian gods
________ had the physical appearance and personalities of humans and human virtues and vices.
Nile Valley
The earliest sedentary communities in ________ appeared on the western margin of the Nile Delta around 4000 B.C.E.
Women of ancient Egypt
________ were more independent and more involved in public life when compared with those of Mesopotamia.
Hyksos kings
________ introduced military technology and organization into Egypt.
Babylonians
________ developed the most sophisticated mathematical system known prior to the 15th century C.E.
Common Era
________: period following the traditional date of the birth of Jesus.
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