Early Civilizations

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Across
  1. 3. a group of people living in an ordered community together for religious, cultural, scientific,
  2. 4. wedge shaped impressions on clay tablet
  3. 6. dividing time into historical eras for purposes of analysis
  4. 8. ancient Egyptians and Mayans
  5. 11. a long-standing custom, practice, or tradition adopted by a group of people
  6. 12. having more than needed, especially when it comes to food.
  7. 14. diffusion, the spread of one culture’s practices, beliefs, and/or items, like food, music, or tools.
  8. 15. to search for food or supplies
  9. 16. a massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of
  10. 21. a political unit where large numbers of people and areas of land are controlled by one ruler
  11. 22. someone who studies human life and culture based on artifacts and human fossils
  12. 26. the use of man made objects such as dams or canals to allow water for agriculture
  13. 27. Someone who digs up and examines artifacts to study past societies
  14. 28. an independent political unit made up of a city and surrounding land
  15. 29. Revolution, prehistorical shift in human activity from hunting and gathering to agriculture resulting in human settlements
  16. 30. on farms.
Down
  1. 1. the taming of wild animals to use as help in agriculture or developing seeds/plants to
  2. 2. a society characterized by established cities, specialized labor, complex institutions, written records, and advanced technology
  3. 5. a series of rulers from a single family
  4. 6. nomad, a person who domesticated animals for food and clothing and moves along regular migratory routes to provide a steady source of food for those animals.
  5. 7. a person living in a society where most or all food is hunted or foraged.
  6. 9. a complex system of writing that used both pictures and more abstract forms, used by
  7. 10. growing food
  8. 13. “wedge shaped” a system of writing developed by the Sumerians using a reed stylus to
  9. 17. monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt used as burial sites for pharaohs
  10. 18. script, form of writing based on the use of symbols, including cuneiform and hiero-glyphs
  11. 19. of labor, separation of tasks needed to be done in a society. Example, farmers, artists,
  12. 20. belief in multiple gods
  13. 23. or patriotic reasons.
  14. 24. the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
  15. 25. Crescent, A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle