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Egypts
________ material and human resources were transformed and focused due to building and equipping the pyramids.
Urban life
________ redefined the role and status of women who had had roughly the same roles and status as men in the Neolithic period.
Israel
________ was a loosely organized confederation of tribes during its first centuries.
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.
Tablets
________ were later used to preserve contracts, maintain administrative records, and record significant events, prayers, myths, and proverbs.
Law Code
The ________ held veterinarians, architects, physicians, and boat builders to the standards of professional behavior.
Yahweh
________ was understood to not be just one god among many but the one universal God, creator, and ruler of the universe.
greater centralization
Writing allowed for those who mastered it to achieve ________ and control of the government.
Population growth
________ put pressure on the local food supply.
Peresians
________ allowed people of Judah to return to their homeland and rebuild their temple.
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.
Mesopotamians
________ believed that the role of mortals was to serve the gods and feed them through sacrifice.
agricultural prices
Dowries, contracts, ________, wages commercy, money lending, and professional standards for physicians and architects.
role of bureaucracy
The ________ was ato administer estates, channel revenues and labor towards vast public works projects, and administer estates.
Persians
________ normally protected local customs, religion, and society.
Abstract
________ and symbolic thought was represented by wall paintings, small clay and stone figurines of women, and decorated stone and bone tools.
private authority
Women exercised ________ over children and servants within the household in the cities.
Akenaten
________ temporarily transformed the aesthetic of Egyptian court life while trying to reestablish royal divinity.
Pictograms
________ developed into a true system of writing.
Sedentarization
________ and the agricultural revolution were fundamental changes in human culture.
Indo European Persians
________ and the Medes settled in Iranian plateau late in the second millennium.
Babylonians
________ modeled their imperial system on that of their predecessors (Assyrians)
Hammurabi
________ expanded his state through arms and diplomacy.
Persian conquers
________ were a lasting power in the Fertile Crescent.
Amenhotep IV
________ was the most controversial ruler of the New Kingdom.
Zoroastriansim
________ was a powerful element in Persian civilization.
Paleolithic people
________ developed speech, religion, and artistic expression.
Ancient Egyptian history
________ is divided into 31 dynasties, regrouped in turn into 4 periods of political centralization.
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.
Tiglath
________- pilser and successors transformed structure of Assyrian state and expanded its empire.
Common Era
Civilization first appeared approximately 3500 years before the ________.
Divine kingship
________ was the cornerstone of Egyptian life.
Hyksos
________ adopted the traditions of Egyptian kingship and continued the tradition of divine rule.
Urban immigration
________ increased the power, wealth, and status of two groups.
Expansion of food supply
________ allowed for development of sedentary communities.
Mesopotamia
Writing served to increase the strength of the king in ________.
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.
Hyksos kings
________ introduced military technology and organization into Egypt.
Women of ancient Egypt
________ were more independent and more involved in public life when compared with those of Mesopotamia.
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.
