WH Vocab #1

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Across
  1. 5. Tame an animal and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
  2. 6. The study of human history through the excavation of prehistoric locations and the analysis of artifacts and other remains.
  3. 9. A type of person without a permanent shelter and instead moves from place to place looking for fresh food for their livestock.
  4. 11. Was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement.
  5. 12. A crescent-shaped region in the Middle East which is named for its rich soils. (Spans from modern-day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan)
  6. 14. A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase, they were used as the earliest known form of writing.
  7. 16. A prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 ft. tall.
  8. 17. The period of time before written records.
  9. 18. Relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons prevailed.
  10. 20. A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple, (ancient Mesopotamian)
Down
  1. 1. A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food.
  2. 2. The arts and other manifestations of the human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
  3. 3. Denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
  4. 4. The stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
  5. 7. Arrange (laws or rules) into a systematic code.
  6. 8. The species to which all modern human beings belong, Latin for "wise human".
  7. 10. Objects made by human beings that are typically items of cultural or historic interest.
  8. 13. Relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years.
  9. 15. A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
  10. 19. A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.