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