Vocab #1 Learning Contract

4. a "wegde-shaped" system of writing used in the ancient Middle East
6. the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
9. to bring animals or plants under human control in order to provide food, power, or company.
12. The early period of the Stone Age when stone tools were used.
13. someone who doesn't have a permanent home and moves frequently for food, water, shelter, and hunting.
14. arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code
17. the important period of change in which humans began cultivating plants, breeding animals for food and forming permanent settlements
18. a member of a culture in which food is obtained by hunting, fishing, and foraging rather than by agriculture or animal husbandry
19. a worker who practices a trade or handicraft

1. a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
2. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
3. the period of time before written records
5. a cresent shaped region in the middle east
7. the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains.
8. a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia
10. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
11. The later part of the Stone Age when more advanced weapons were made.
14. a relatively high level of cultural and technological development
15. a prehistoric monument in Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England consisting of standing stone boulders
16. the species to which all modern humans belong