TCI U1
Across
- 3. a characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people
- 4. before written history
- 7. a scientist who studies human development
- 12. writing that uses wedge-shaped characters
- 13. wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior
- 16. a military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender
- 18. an expert who studies and creates maps of Earth’s natural and human-made features
- 20. something that can be used to fulfill a need
- 26. to move from one geographic region to another
- 27. the way a civilization is organized
- 28. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
- 31. the later part of the Stone Age, called the New Stone Age, lasted from around 8000 to 3000 B.C.E.
- 35. the way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet people’s needs and wants
- 36. a means of supplying land with water
- 37. fine particles of rock
- 38. relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony
- 39. the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
- 40. an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top
Down
- 1. an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government(1 word w/ a "-")
- 2. in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- 3. a collection of written laws and rules (3 words)
- 4. the first period of the Stone Age, called the Old Stone Age, from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 B.C.E
- 5. a Neolithic town discovered in central Turkey (for 2 words, no space, first word is capital, second is not)
- 6. ability or skill
- 8. an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
- 9. an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
- 10. a symbol that stands for an object
- 11. one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
- 14. an expert who studies and records the past
- 15. one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
- 17. a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government
- 19. an object made or used by people in the past
- 21. a city that is the center of government
- 22. the business of buying and selling or exchanging items
- 23. an early ancestor of humans
- 24. an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind
- 25. to train a wild animal to be useful to humans
- 29. a society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure
- 30. a person who makes money by selling goods
- 32. the business of farming; growing crops and raising animals
- 33. a person who writes
- 34. a craftsperson