Vocabulary: Origins of Civilization
Across
- 3. complex society that has cities, a well-organized government and workers with specialized job skills
- 6. the study of human life in the past by examining the things that people left behind
- 8. the act of concentrating on a limited number of goods or activities
- 9. people who relied on finding and harvesting resources in the wild
- 12. to supply water to someone or something
- 13. to change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful for humans
- 14. a person who moves from place to place without a permanent home
- 15. supply of something that can be used as needed
Down
- 1. "The ___": a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) to the Persian Gulf
- 2. a complete change in ways of thinking, working, or living
- 4. the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming
- 5. trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money
- 7. all the inhabitants of a town, area, or country
- 10. extra; more than immediately needed
- 11. the study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture