Unit 1 - Prehistory (10 points)

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Across
  1. 2. largest peninsula in the world / vast reserves of oil and natural gas / part of Middle East
  2. 6. made the first stone tools found in the archaeological record / nicknamed "handy man"
  3. 7. one of the earliest defining human traits / ability to stand and walk on two feet
  4. 11. _________ and cattle were among the first farm animals that originated in Mesopotamia between 10,000 and 13,000 years ago
  5. 14. only human species that still exists
  6. 15. first domesticated animal that formed an alliance with humans shortly after the latter's arrival in Europe 40,000 to 50,000 years ago
  7. 16. one of the best-preserved Neolithic settlements in southern Turkey (Anatolia)
  8. 17. humans, apes, and their ancestors
  9. 18. crop grown in Chinese swamps dating back at least 7,700 years
  10. 19. another name for corn / crop that emerged around 9,000 years ago in Mexico
  11. 20. travelling from place to place following food sources
  12. 21. westernmost extension of the Asian continent / makes up most of modern Turkey
Down
  1. 1. crop first cultivated 10,000 years ago in Mexico
  2. 3. the radical and important period of change in which humans began cultivating plants, breeding animals for food and forming permanent settlements / advent of agriculture separated Neolithic people from their Paleolithic ancestors
  3. 4. types of grass cultivated for the edible components of their grain / includes wheat and barley - two of the first crops domesticated by Neolithic farming communities
  4. 5. pre-Neolithic people that started building permanent houses in the Fertile Crescent
  5. 6. first species of ancient humans to create and control fire
  6. 8. extends from the earliest known use of stone tools by hominids around 3.3 million years ago to the end of the last Ice Age about 20,000 years ago
  7. 9. domesticated from animals that Neolithic humans hunted for meat / made the hard, physical labor of farming possible while their milk and meat added variety to the human diet
  8. 10. very first region where settled farming emerged and early civilizations such as Sumer and Mesopotamia flourished / technological advances in the region include the development of agriculture and the use of irrigation, of writing, the wheel, and glass
  9. 12. process by which farmers select for desirable traits by breeding successive generations of a plant or animal
  10. 13. water buffalo and _________ were domesticated around 13,000 years ago in China, India, and Tibet
  11. 22. female Australopithecus skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 / tree-dweller / about a meter tall / small brain