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

2. Capital of Ancient Egypt during most of the New Kingdom.

3. People of Akkad who overruled the Sumerians and assimilated their culture. Simplified the Sumerian cuneiform.

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

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

6. Indo-European people who entered Mesopotamia in 1750 BC - destroying the Babylonian Empire; partnered with the Egyptians to destroy Syria - then turned on the Egyptians conquering them and ruling for several centuries; played a major role in transmit

7. 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.

8. Homo Species that disappeared at the end of the Paleolithic period.

9. Three main rivers of the Fertile Crescent.

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

11. 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.

12. First Pharaoh of the Old Kingdom.

13. This successfully diplomatic Pharaoh of the New Kingdom avoided continued warfare - commissioned the construction of two huge temples in Nubia that were unusually dedicated to the gods of ancient Egypt - Chiefly Amen-Re - rather than to the Pharaoh a

14. Egyptian gods were often represented by ____________.

15. Name for the Hebrew god.

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

17. Documents of the Hebrew god and his law. Rather than heroic tales of gods and goddesses - this book told takes of men and women both weak and strong.

18. Sumerian relationship with their gods was ___________. Humans were created to do the manual labor for the gods.

19. The position of _________ was less free and equal in agricultural societies than in hunting societies.

20. 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.

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

22. Egyptian sun-god that attained preeminence above other Egyptian deities. Briefly leading the Egyptians into monotheism prior to the reign of Tutankhamen which saw the restoration of the older religion and its promise of an afterlife.

23. A religious outlook that see god in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical of Mesopotamian religions.

24. The period from 12 -000 BC to 8 -000 BC characterized by the gradual shift from hunter-gather societies to sedentary agricultural societies.

25. 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.

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