Unit: Paleolithic vs. Neolithic & River Valleys

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Across
  1. 3. in ancient Mesopotamia, a large, stepped platform thought to have been topped by a temple dedicated to a city's chief god or goddess.
  2. 4. The first part of the Stone age when humans survived by living a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
  3. 7. skilled workers who make goods by hand
  4. 9. a major turning point as humans switched from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle
  5. 10. a region of the Middle East in which civilizations first arose
  6. 13. the later part of the Stone Age, used stone weapons
  7. 14. complex culture with advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology
  8. 16. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
  9. 17. The time or period before recorded or written history.
  10. 18. species of human beings
  11. 20. The selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans
Down
  1. 1. The investigation of the human past by means of excavating and analyzing artifacts
  2. 2. Objects made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced
  3. 5. one who gets their food by hunting for it and collecting wild fruit, vegetables, and nuts
  4. 6. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
  5. 8. professional record keepers around 3000 BC in Sumer
  6. 11. to arrange or set down in writing
  7. 12. a person who does not stay long in the same place
  8. 15. architecturally sophisticated prehistoric stone circle
  9. 19. Sumerian method of writing using writing characters scratched by a stylus on clay surface